golibnotify is a Go library for sending desktop notifications on Linux. It is a wrapper around the libnotify library.

There are some memory leak fixes in the latest release, v0.2.0.

Golang Open Source My Stuff

I often get large JSON files which contain no newlines or indentation. I’d like to look at these reasonably in neovim, but it’s been cumbersome until today.

TL;DR: You can replace the contents of the buffer with output formatted by jq with one command: :%!jq .

TIL

How can a tool that is indescernably wrong be anything more than a toy?

large-language-models

Here’s a super quick one-liner to copy the current branch’s PR URL to your clipboard (for posting into Slack, tickets, etc.) $ gh pr view --json url --jq .url | <pbcopy | xclip -sel c> Remember to replace the copy command with your platform’s specific command. This would also make a good shell alias. Also, also, I might try setting up Clipboard for multi-platform goodness. Happy PR-ing! – Chris

git Command-Line

With the wide adoption of robust front-end frameworks and CSS-in-JS, traditional methods of targeting xpath or CSS selectors for scraping data from web pages are becoming ineffective. However, this new paradigm of front-end development leaves a key opportunity to improve the web scraping experience.

Thoughts

I was recently having a conversation about Pull Request reviews with a colleague of mine and I mentioned that when I’m ready to look at code for a PR, I review one commit at a time in order. After a confused pause, she asked how I could get the full context by only looking at one commit at a time. I supposed to her that perhaps the full context is not what facilitates a better review. Instead, we should follow the journey the developer who opened the PR has set out for us through their commits.

Practical PRs

I propose a case for writing all of your commit messages for a feature, bug, pull request before writing a single line of code and afterward not adding any additional commits to your branch. Plan and execute. Give clarity and focus to your reviewers. Here’s how.

git

After a while of using docker locally for development, you may notice that you have a lot of images and containers laying around on your disk that you no longer use. This post shows you an effective way to clean up 50 of GB or more of disk space. The first, best thing to do is clean up dangling images. These are docker images that are not referenced by a container.

docker

The Golang web app framework, Buffalo, has a very good templating system called Plush. It adds some nice features to the standard library templating specific to web applications such as partials and local context. It’s pretty intuitive if you’re coming from Rails. While the default setup makes rendering a template as a response to a request super easy, using rendered template content elsewhere isn’t so obvious. Once you see it though, it’s pretty straightforward to render a template to a string within your action handler functions.

Buffalo Golang

For many recent projects, I’ve been using the excellent Buffalo web development eco-system. It’s a great collection of tools and packages for building web applications without needing to reinvent the wheel for each app. In this post, I’ll be highlighting a technique I use based on the service object design pattern of abstracting business logic from your applicaton implementation to increase readability and reusability. But, why? Here’s a scenario I find myself in with increasing frequency.

Golang Buffalo