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A while back I wrote about logrus-configurator — a small package that auto-configures logrus from environment variables so you stop copy-pasting the same setup boilerplate into every Go project. It …
Some HTTP requests take forever. LLM completions, image generation, video transcoding, big report builds, slow webhook processors — they all sit there chewing on something while your reverse proxy in …
Telegram has two APIs. The Bot API — neutered, restricted, limited to whatever Telegram decided bots are allowed to do. And MTProto — the actual protocol your phone uses, with …
Say it out loud: aichteeteapee. Go on. Sound it out. Aitch-tee-tee-pee. Yeah. That’s HTTP. I named my Go HTTP library by spelling “HTTP” phonetically and published it with a straight …
Put nginx in front of MinIO at a path prefix and try to use presigned URLs. Go ahead, I’ll wait. The problem is AWS Signature V4. The signature covers the …
Every service I write needs exactly one piece of information before it does anything else: is this thing running in prod, or is some poor bastard (me, at 2am, half …
I live under a flight path. Military cargo planes, government jets, police helicopters, the occasional emergency squawk — all of it flying over my head and I had no idea …
MetaTrader 5 only runs on Windows. The official Python library only works on Windows. The MQL5 scripting language is a C++ knockoff from 2005 that makes you want to gouge …
Every cloud TTS service is the same story. Send text, get audio, pay per character, pray the API doesn’t change. Your audio goes to someone else’s servers. Your costs scale …
x-constants: int: defaultPageSize: &defaultPageSize 20 maxPageSize: &maxPageSize 100 uint: minPasswordLength: &minPasswordLength 8 float64: requestTimeout: &requestTimeout 30.5 string: defaultLocale: &defaultLocale “en-US” bool: enableCache: &enableCache true // Code generated by oapixconstgen. DO …