https://eblog.fly.dev Software articles at a level of rigor somewhere between textbook and blog. mostly systems programming & backend but not limited to it. efron.dev@gmail.com (Efron Amber Licht) Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:00:00 -0800 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:46:34 -0700 https://eblog.fly.dev/tt_tt.png 224 224 https://eblog.fly.dev/uuid.html Using the magic technique of "just kind of looking at raw bytes" to solve a problem with UUIDs. https://eblog.fly.dev/bytehacking.html Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -0800 https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks.html part 1 of a grab-bag of go quirks and tricks, covering declaration, control flow, and the typesystem. https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks.html Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:00:00 -0800 https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks2.html part 2 of a grab-bag of go quirks and tricks, covering concurrency, unsafe, and reflect. https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks2.html Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:00:00 -0800 https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks3.html part 3 of a grab-bag of go quirks and tricks, covering arrays, validation, and build constraints. https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks3.html Sat, 01 Apr 2023 09:00:00 -0700 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. https://eblog.fly.dev/startfast.html Sat, 01 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0700 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 https://eblog.fly.dev/backendbasics3.html Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0700 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 https://eblog.fly.dev/backendbasics2.html Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0700 https://eblog.fly.dev/backendbasics.html First part of a guide to backend development in go, covering the basics of TCP, DNS, and HTTP https://eblog.fly.dev/backendbasics.html Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0700 https://eblog.fly.dev/console.html A very fancy way to make a realtime debug console like quake for your go programs https://eblog.fly.dev/console.html Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0700 https://eblog.fly.dev/console-autocomplete.html Adding autocomplete to our reflection-based debug console https://eblog.fly.dev/console-autocomplete.html Sun, 01 Oct 2023 09:00:00 -0700 https://eblog.fly.dev/faststack.html An investigation into the mechanism and performance of Gin's fancy stack traces https://eblog.fly.dev/faststack.html Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:00:00 -0800 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 https://eblog.fly.dev/startingsystems1.html Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0800 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. https://eblog.fly.dev/startingsystems2.html Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0800 https://eblog.fly.dev/ginbad.html Gin is a very bad software library. Way, way too much detail on why. https://eblog.fly.dev/ginbad.html Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0800 https://eblog.fly.dev/swtalmud.html An attempt to communicate wisdom from the engineers and programmers of the past Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0700 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. https://eblog.fly.dev/startingsystems3.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0700 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 https://eblog.fly.dev/githubbad.html Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:00 -0700