Dnsclay provides a standard DNS UPDATE/AXFR/NOTIFY interface for changing DNS records at your DNS operator that only provides API access through their custom web API.
When you register a domain name, the company you register it through typically sets up DNS...
There’s a new tool in town! It’s called ysco, and it provides managed automated updates for Go services, without requiring changes to the application.
The launch party was at the Go Rotterdam meetup earlier this evening. Special thanks to the organizers for running a we...
For better or worse, I find myself typing more and more text in textarea/input elements in web apps these days. Especially now that I’m writing most emails in the mox webmail client. It was high time to enable vi editing mode in Firefox.
One problem: Firefox doesn’t see...
You’re implementing a network protocol. You read the specs, make a mental model and a design to fulfill the requirements, do some prototyping, check against existing software implementing the protocol, then continue with the details until the implementation is finished. Yo...
A lot has happened for mox in the past year. And despite good intentions, I haven’t written a blog posts about any of it!
A modern, secure, all-in-one mail server. The goal is to make it easy to run your own mail server. So you can stay in control of y...
I’m a fan of server-sent events, or SSE. They are a very lightweight option to send streaming updates from a webserver to a client. I’m using it in ding, a modest build server for small teams. Ding sends updates about a build (e.g. the build output log, build failure/suc...
I used to write config files for my admittedly small/simple services in JSON. Mostly because they are reasonably easy to read/write as human, and everyone and their programming language can handle it.
It isn’t great though. Not new information, we know this. Still, a quic...
Through the golang issue tracker I recently stumbled upon the JSON-mode of Go download page: https://golang.org/dl/?mode=json&include=all.
Quite useful for build server software that wants to allow builds (of your software) with new Go releases quickly (and automatedly), bu...
Go 1.11beta2 is out. And it includes the new Go modules support, what started as vgo. Go beta’s are delightfully easy to try out:
go get golang.org/dl/go1.11beta2
go1.11beta2 download
I wanted to use it. See how it feels. And… it works pretty good! I even started usin...
Hi! In this blog post I’m announcing duit, which is a
It is pure Go – no C code or external library involved. The asterisk represents the runtime dependence on a helper tool. It provides duit with cros...