Reading List

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

Findings from six months of running `govulncheck` in CI

Costs and benefits of running golvulncheck automatically as part of CI.

Honest health checks that hit the database

Health checks suitable for status pages that show down when the application is down.

Migrating weaker password hashes by nesting them in an outer hash

Rehashing opportunistically on login is fine, but leaves a long tail of weaker password hashes. Here’s one weird trick to get rid of them.

Adventures in password hashing + migrating to Argon2id

A busy week of retiring our old IAM solution, increasing hash iterations on PBKDF2, then dumping the algorithm completely.

PartialEqual

A test helper in Go to avoid long, unsightly assertion lists.