Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

A Postgres-friendly time comparison assertion for Go

A time assertion for Go that ignores time.Time’s monotonic component and stops at microsecond-level precision.

Getting Postgres logs in a GitHub Action

Get occasionally-indispensible Postgres logging detail with three lines of YAML.

Why to prefer `t.Cleanup` to `defer` in tests with subtests using `t.Parallel`

Go’s defer and t.Cleanup have similar semantics, but there’s a good reason to prefer the use of t.Cleanup specifically in the presence of parallel subtests.

An email redaction function for Postgres

Neither here nor there, but a PL/pgSQL function for redacting emails in Postgres to derisk leaking PII.

Rate limiting, DDOS, and hyperbole

Examining the nature of a 429 (too many requests), and the purpose it serves.