Great front light, great price, great mounting. You’ve potentially seen the Ravemen FR160 light advertised heavily on Instragram or other places. I’m admittedly fairly dubious of stuff advertised on Insta, but I researched these a bit when my current front light failed and am now a happy customer. I was…

Dropping a bunch of wheel weight, but at a cost — worth it? I’ve really been embracing the “downcountry” bike category. For riding in Bend, Oregon, this is the ideal bike for general trail riding. We do have some areas (Mt. Bachelor’s lift served, Cline Butte, and a few others)…

Go’s built in notion of object encoding, where an object (struct) is encoded (and decoded) as JSON or other types, is an under appreciated feature that saves time and code maintenance. Please do enlighten me if/what other languages have this, but I don’t think I’ve seen this before in languages…

DynamoDB streams are a great option for post-processing or observing changes to your data. Combine this with stream filtering to laser target what changes you want to react to, and reduce the costs of using streams. In this article I’ll cover both general use of streams, but also more…

Importing a very large raster data set into PostGIS can take a long time, and if something interrupts that process, you will most likely have to start over. …

Use a simple curl command (or CLI tool) to send yourself a text message. Useful as part of a script, to notify you when a long task completes. I often find it’d be useful to get a notification when some longer task I’m doing completes. In particular I find this…

Many folks who come to Go, complain about the error handling. It is different than many other languages, but I’ve come to really like it. I remember when I first started learning Go, the error handling seemed very simplistic and old school (I’d been using Ruby, Elixir, Kotlin, etc.). But…

Slick or knobby, what pressure, inserts or not, what width…? Gravel is currently an interesting category for tire choice as there are a large number of options, and seemingly somewhat less consensus on ideal setups. I’m obviously not a pro, and my gravel usage and needs are generally reflected by…

Simple instructions for using pprof to view the stack traces of currently running goroutines. So it appears your go program is hung, and you aren’t sure where/exactly what it’s doing that is hung. Maybe it’s hung, maybe it’s just running slowly? You can use pprof to help you figure this…