https://eblog.fly.dev 2026-06-04T20:46:34-07:00 Software articles at a level of rigor somewhere between textbook and blog. mostly systems programming & backend but not limited to it. Efron Amber Licht efron.dev@gmail.com 2023-01-01T09:00:00-08:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/bytehacking.html

Using the magic technique of "just kind of looking at raw bytes" to solve a problem with UUIDs.

2023-02-01T09:00:00-08:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks.html

part 1 of a grab-bag of go quirks and tricks, covering declaration, control flow, and the typesystem.

2023-03-01T09:00:00-08:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks2.html

part 2 of a grab-bag of go quirks and tricks, covering concurrency, unsafe, and reflect.

2023-04-01T09:00:00-07:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks3.html

part 3 of a grab-bag of go quirks and tricks, covering arrays, validation, and build constraints.

2023-07-01T09:00:00-07:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/startfast.html

The only thing your program does every time is start, so it should start as fast as possible. Here's how.

2023-09-01T09:00:00-07:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/backendbasics3.html

Third part of a guide to backend development in go, covering testing, middleware, dependencies, routing, and a little bit of databases

2023-09-01T09:00:00-07:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/backendbasics2.html

Now that we know how to build it by hand, use the go stdlib to do it the practical way

2023-09-01T09:00:00-07:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/backendbasics.html

First part of a guide to backend development in go, covering the basics of TCP, DNS, and HTTP

2023-09-01T09:00:00-07:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/console.html

A very fancy way to make a realtime debug console like quake for your go programs

2023-10-01T09:00:00-07:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/console-autocomplete.html

Adding autocomplete to our reflection-based debug console

2023-12-01T09:00:00-08:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/faststack.html

An investigation into the mechanism and performance of Gin's fancy stack traces

2025-03-01T09:00:00-08:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/startingsystems1.html

First part of a guide to systems programming, starting with building the basic tools to examine and manipulate files and binary data

2025-12-01T09:00:00-08:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/startingsystems2.html

Second part of a guide to systems programming, covering how to interact with the outside world - syscalls, files, etc.

2025-12-01T09:00:00-08:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/ginbad.html

Gin is a very bad software library. Way, way too much detail on why.

2026-04-21T09:00:00-07:00 tag:eblog.fly.dev,2026-04-21:/swtalmud.html

An attempt to communicate wisdom from the engineers and programmers of the past

2026-04-23T09:00:00-07:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/startingsystems3.html

ALPHA: Third part of a guide to systems programming, covering performance, including computer architecture, architectural design, profiling, benchmarking, and examples of micro-optimizations.

2026-05-29T09:00:00-07:00 https://eblog.fly.dev/githubbad.html

An investigation into collapse of Github and how the decay of our tech infrastructure is a crime against software. Detailed comparisons of Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, and more from a distributed systems and software performance expert