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pr0xteus: Disposable VPN Exits for Apps You Wouldn’t Trust With Your Password
Containers / Golang

pr0xteus: Disposable VPN Exits for Apps You Wouldn’t Trust With Your Password

You’ve got some app that needs to leave the building through a VPN. A scraper, a browser bot, some agent poking at sites that would rather it came from somewhere …

ctxscope: Stop Threading request_id Through Every Function Signature
Golang

ctxscope: Stop Threading request_id Through Every Function Signature

Here’s the code everybody writes. A request comes in, you generate an id, and something a few calls down needs to log it: func handleOrder(ctx context.Context, requestID string, o Order) …

slogging: Delete Twenty Lines of slog Boilerplate With One Blank Import
Golang

slogging: Delete Twenty Lines of slog Boilerplate With One Blank Import

Go 1.21 shipped log/slog and it’s good. What it doesn’t ship is any way to configure it, so every service starts with a version of this: var level slog.Level switch …

essessey: Stream a Turn Anywhere Without Rewriting It
AI Tooling / Golang

essessey: Stream a Turn Anywhere Without Rewriting It

The first version streamed over SSE. Then something needed the same turn over NATS, and I found out I’d built the framing into the wrong layer. event: / data: / …

elelem: Say It Out Loud, You’ll Get It
AI Tooling / Golang

elelem: Say It Out Loud, You’ll Get It

The moment that decides what kind of library you’re writing is the one where a human has to approve a tool call. Everything is lovely right up until then. The …

slog-configurator: Same Zero-Config Logging, Now on the Standard Library
Golang

slog-configurator: Same Zero-Config Logging, Now on the Standard Library

Update, August 2026: this package moved. slog-configurator is now github.com/psyb0t/slogging, where the configurator lives at slogconf/ alongside two handlers it always belonged next to — the searchable in-memory ring at …

proxq: Async HTTP for Backends That Won’t Stop Timing Out
Containers / Golang

proxq: Async HTTP for Backends That Won’t Stop Timing Out

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 …

aichteeteapee: A Go HTTP Library Named By Someone Who Thinks Spelling Things Out Is Funny
Golang

aichteeteapee: A Go HTTP Library Named By Someone Who Thinks Spelling Things Out Is Funny

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 …

goenv: Three Functions, One Env Var, Zero Fucks Given
Golang

goenv: Three Functions, One Env Var, Zero Fucks Given

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 …

oapixconstgen: Make Your OpenAPI Spec the Source of Truth for Go Constants
Golang

oapixconstgen: Make Your OpenAPI Spec the Source of Truth for Go Constants

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 …

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