divan's blog

Tomorrow is an announcement of EdgeDB 2.0, and I realized that I've never shared my experience with it, and it's been more than a year since I switched every project I could to EdgeDB. So here is a short post on it. What is EdgeDB? It's an open-source rel

The newest release of Go - Go 1.13 - finally introduced full support for Go Modules - brilliant and long-awaited solution for built-in dependency versioning problem. Modules now enabled by default, and virtually make GOPATH obsolete. Technically speaking,

This is a blog version of the talk I gave at GopherCon Europe 2019 (Canary Islands Edition) , where I shared my thoughts on why Visual Programming Languages have failed and revealed for the first time my experiment on visualizing Go code. I could dive in

I've recently discovered Flutter - a new Google's framework for mobile development - for myself and even had an experience of teaching Flutter basics to the person who has never been doing programming at all. Flutter is written in Dart - programming langu

TL;DR In this article I'll share my experience building an interactive 3D WebGL-based application for peer-to-peer messaging protocol simulation without writing any single line in JS. You'll learn how GopherJS and Vecty framework can dramatically lower th

(source: Anders Sune Berg ) In the previous article I've described a weekend project called txqr for unidirectional data transfer using animated sequence of QR codes. The straightforward approach was to repeat the encoded sequence over an...

TL;DR: a weekend project for transferring data via animated QR codes, written in Go and using fountain erasure codes. The Go code is reused for mobile apps using Gomobile, and in a web application for automating testing QR codes parameters, built with Gop

On the last Golang Barcelona meetup we decided to try new format of conversation and after the talk started open discussion on logging, tracing and metrics. The idea was to encourage people to read a very nice blog post by Peter Bourgon on this subject -

I used to think that misunderstanding interfaces in Go can lead, at most, to not very readable code and worse maintainability. From my observations misusing interfaces becomes visible usually during refactorings, where you questioning what this type or ab

Peter Bourgon has a web site, and this is that web site.