Open-Source

View Git Tags with Semver Ordering

Feb 09, 2021 by Lane Wagner

If you’re like me, you wish all Git tags adhered to the Semantic Versioning standard. Unfortunately, Semver is just a convention, so Git tags can basically be any string of text.

How to Restart All Pods in a Kubernetes Namespace

Oct 26, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Where I work, we use a repo-per-namespace setup and so it often happens that I want to restart all pods and deployments in a single Kubernetes namespace.

6 Things to Avoid When Contributing to Open-Source Projects

Oct 21, 2020 by Lane Wagner

With #HacktoberFest being a thing, there has been an influx of devs desperately trying to contribute to their favorite Open-Source projects.

How To Correctly Validate Passwords - Most Websites Do It Wrong

Oct 15, 2020 by Lane Wagner

You’ve probably visited a site and attempted to sign-up only to be met with errors such as:

Go-CoNLLU - Some Much Needed Machine Learning Support in Go

Jun 08, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Python is commonly seen as the AI/ML language, but is often a dull blade due to unsafe typing and being slow, like really slow.

I Wrote Go-TinyDate, The Missing Golang Date Package

Mar 23, 2020 by Lane Wagner

time.Time makes dealing with dates and times in Go a breeze, and it even comes bundled in the standard library!

Building Alerts with Percolate Queries in ElasticSearch

Nov 14, 2019 by Lane Wagner

Once upon a time, a company I worked for had a problem, we had thousands of messages flowing through our data pipeline every second, and we wanted to be able to send real-time emails, SMS, and Slack alerts when messages matching specific criteria were found.

Automatic Cross-Platform Deployments with Electron

Aug 08, 2019 by Lane Wagner

This is a tutorial on how to set up an Electron app on Travis CI, so that new versions are deployed to GitHub Releases with a simple pull request.