Mostly writing code that does stuff... Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:19:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ciprian.51k.eu/upld/2019/02/cropped-terminal-icon-32x32.png 32 32 https://ciprian.51k.eu/pr0xteus-disposable-vpn-exits/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:15:12 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/pr0xteus-disposable-vpn-exits/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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/ctxscope-context-scoped-log-attributes-go/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:00:42 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/ctxscope-context-scoped-log-attributes-go/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) ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/slogging-configure-search-ship-slog/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:20:58 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1385Go 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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/essessey-stream-a-turn-anywhere-without-rewriting-it/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:52:01 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1364The 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: / ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/elelem-say-it-out-loud-youll-get-it/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:53:53 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/elelem-say-it-out-loud-youll-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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/slog-configurator-stdlib-logging-zero-config/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:25:03 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/slog-configurator-stdlib-logging-zero-config/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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-proxq-async-http-queue-for-slow-backends/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:23:53 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-proxq-async-http-queue-for-slow-backends/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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/aichteeteapee-a-go-http-library-named-by-someone-who-thinks-spelling-things-out-is-funny/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:24:37 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1161Say 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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/goenv-three-functions-one-env-var-zero-fucks-given/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/oapixconstgen-make-your-openapi-spec-the-source-of-truth-for-go-constants/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:22:03 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/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 ...]]>