andy britcliffe
This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
Offline Go Lang Documentation
Little trick I’ve discovered so I can read the package docs for Go while offline.
If you have go installed execute:
godoc -http=:6060
and then head to http://127.0.0.1:6060/pkg/ in your browser.
Teddle: The shit that TechCrunch doesn't tell you....
We are hungover as we write this. Why? Well namely even when you don’t have any money you can still get drunk, but more so because of the day we had yesterday.
This isn’t a ‘3 easy steps to your first 1,000,000 users’ type post. Just a real life account of what a pretty average day in a young…
Enjoyed this as it brings back memories of very similar days
How long you spent on it.
How hard it was to implement.
How clean your architecture is.
How extensible it is.
How well it runs on your machine.
How great it will be once all their friends are on it.
How amazing the next version will be.
Whose fault the problems are.
What you think they should be interested in.
What you expected.
What you were promised.
How important this is to you.
Braindump: The Twitter stack
For various reasons, including performance and cost, Twitter has poured significant engineering effort into breaking down the site backend into smaller JVM based services. As a nice side effect we’ve been able to open source several of the libraries and other useful tools that came out of this…
