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    Go Http

    Feb 21, 2025  | 2 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Some handy small snippets for when working with go's net/http

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  • posts

    Data Structures and Algorithms Go

    Jan 29, 2025  | 8 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Algorithm

    Simple Sorts

    Selection Sort

    Sort a list of []Type by searching for the smallest (or largest) element of the array, removing the found element from the list, and copying it to a new list.

    Time Complexity: $O(n^2)$

    Example
     1func selectionSort(list []int) []int {
 2	newList := []int{}
 3	for range list {
 4 …

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  • projects

    Go Indieauth Client

    Sep 4, 2024  | 3 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Go Indieauth Client

    IndieAuth Logo Color

    Introduction

    What started as small bug when attempting a Web Sign-In, quickly rabbit holed into attempting to craft an IndieAuth playground for testing Web Sign-In.

    Demo

    About the Project

    After spending some time on the forums and reading through the documentation, I remained somewhat lost. I identify as someone that …

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  • projects

    Go Fix Social Links

    Apr 4, 2024  | 4 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Go Fix Social Links

    Image generated by DALL-E

    While I don't really use social media much these days, my friends and co-workers are constantly sharing links from Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, and more via Discord. The challenge for me, and all of us really is that Discord doesn't handle the oembed from social media sites well in the app. More likely the cause is that …

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  • cheatsheets

    Go Basics

    Sep 12, 2021  | 3 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Variables

    Strictly Typed and Compiled

    1var a bool
2a = false
3b := true
4
5fmt.Println(a, "and", b) // false and true

    1type banana int
2var b banana
3fmt.Println(b)
4// 0
5fmt.Printf("%T\n", b)
6// main.banana

    Functions

    function singature func functionname(parametername type) returntype …

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  • projects

    GoGoPing

    Aug 21, 2021  | 1 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    GoGoPing

    A rewrite of the ping application from C to go. Create a tool that is useful in debugging connections to the Internet.

    At the time of writing this I had a specific use case that allowing ping to utilize concurrency for very specific testing (scaling network pings to multiple hosts in as efficient a way as possible). …

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