A guide on building a bot to help you apply for jobs. — The first resume is believed to be the one Leonardo Da Vinci sent “to the regent of Milan seeking a job.” The regent did hire him, which is why Da Vinci’s designs are still relevant in today’s architectural practices. Modern companies have opted for this model of accepting resumes from…

My approach to downloading data in parts and merging it. — Standalone download managers were popular in the early 2000s. This was a result of slow and unstable internet. Download managers, in general, enabled its users to pause a download. An option built-in browser downloads adopted later on. Standalone download managers were better at dealing with network errors too, as you…

A quick overview of Go build tags — A common issue I encounter while writing a Go library is managing multi-platform support. The first libraries I built had terrible cross-platform compatibility. However, this was a result of some bad code. For example, I joined file path strings with the + operator. This resulted in some functionality not working…

Leveraging Goroutines to simplify game development — When I was a child, video games never ceased to amaze me. When I played Crash Bandicoot, I legitimately thought there was an entire universe inside my PlayStation 2. It was after building my first video game that I realised the art of the trade. The art being, as a…

Because Linux can only open a certain number of files — If you’ve been around the tech industry you may have heard someone mention the term “scale.” Even outside of tech, you may have observed businesses “scaling” their production methods to meet demand. In essence, “scaling” would equate to increasing your means of production. In the context of tech, scaling is…

Because unit tests aren’t enough… — Integration tests are “defined as a type of testing where software modules are integrated logically and tested as a group.” In this post, I’ll describe my approach to performing integrations tests with a WASM binary. I’ll be using package github.com/tebeka/selenium to interact with Selenium. Selenium is a tool that “automates…

My approach to routing a variable within a go-fiber app. — go-fiber is a Go web framework. It is inspired by ExpressJS, and after using it, the resemblance is uncanny. ExpressJS, if you didn’t know, is a web framework developed for NodeJS. It simplifies routing and the processing of HTTP requests. Coming from a NodeJS background, go-fiber seems like a good…

A Quick overview of the File System Access API — Filesystem access has been a pipe dream for JS developers. Until this year, until the introduction of the File System Access API. This API enables JS developers to read and write to the host’s filesystem. In this post, I’ll walk you through reading and writing data to the filesystem. Access a directory and file You…

Store and access program configuration with dotfiles. — “Dotfiles are used to customize your system. The dotfiles name is derived from the configuration files in Unix-like systems that start with a dot.” I use dotfiles to persist environment variables I set on my Linux machine. I use environment variables as a means for storing configuration data. This consists…