Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
If you have previously read anything on this blog (directly, rather than via RSS) you will have noticed that the visuals have been updated. This is the culmination of a very long and arduous process - entirely my responsibility and self-inflicted - and as a result, it is running via Netlify, built with Gatsby and stored in Contentful. For styling I relied heavily on Tachyons and for the sake of…
We have an internal service that takes requests of the form something
like /foo/{ID}/bar which basically is expected to generate data of the
form "bar" about the ID entity within the collection "foo". Real
clear! Because this service has a bunch of similar routes that have a
resource identifier as part of the request path, we use the Gorilla Mux
package. There are
a lot of different approaches to…