Open-Sources

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. By default when you use the git tag command, your output will be in alphabetical order. Being a gopher, almost all the projects I work on are tagged according to Semver standards, which means the default output is fairly useless.

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. Maybe I want to see the startup logs, or maybe I want to shut down production for a few seconds. Don’t question my motives.

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. Unfortunately, many of these pull requests have been a waste of time, with the maintainers ultimately unable to use the contributions. Maintainers don’t want to waste their time reviewing bad PRs, and contributors don’t want to waste their time writing code that will never make it into production.

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. Many popular natural language processing toolkits only have Python APIs, and we want to see that change. At Nuvi, a social media marketing tool, we use Go for the majority of our data processing tasks because we can write simple and fast code. Today we are open-sourcing a tool that has helped make our ML lives easier in Go. Say hello to go-conllu.

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! However, a time.Time{} struct uses more than 24 bytes of memory under most conditions, and I’ve run into situations where I need to store millions of them in memory, but all I really needed was a UTC date! Go-TinyDate solves this with just 4 bytes of memory.

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. A simple solution built using ElasticSearch’s percolate queries ended up being our saving grace.

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.