The latest release of Go (1.18) added generics to the language, besides fuzzing, workspaces and performance improvements. 1 So let’s use them to implement the repository pattern, which is a way to abstract data handling from your business logic. When working on REST-like APIs you want to split handling of data from and into some kind of data store (e.g. a database, a file, …) from business logic. This is where the repository pattern comes in handy....

This will be a reminder for myself on how to set up a basic Arch Linux and not a guide with a lot of variety on how to set up arch. I will update this post when I learn something new, while installing arch on one of my machines again. In the past I did some experiments with btrfs, but had some problems while rebalancing, and actually used none of the fancy features like snapshots, btrfs send or other cool things....

I was (and still am for some parts) a happy vscode user. On the other hand I was always looking up to all these crazy fast vim/neovim users and their keyboard only drive workflows. After hopping on and off the vim train a few times a year something new came around sometime in 2021 - LSP support on neovim core. LSP stands for Language Server Protocol and definies how your IDE communicates with a specific language server to get features like ‘go to definition’, ‘show references’ or ‘rename this variable’....

As you already know I host most of the services I use on a daily basis myself. Some of these services are hosted on the public Internet, while others are running on my home server. In this post I will cover the basic on how to get a peers-to-site VPN connection with WireGuard. WireGuard uses a simple public/private keypair to set up an encrypted VPN tunnel, therefore there is no need for a complicated certificate authority setup....

I never expected to use any other OS than my beloved Linux (and especially Arch Linux) for developing and day-to-day computing. Well, I actually use Windows to play some games with friends occasionally, but the time has come to use a Mac at work. It was simply the easiest way to get a much more powerful machine than my ThinkPad X390. So here I’m trying to write up what I like about macOS and what I miss from my highly customized Linux machine....