With the new year here I want to write something a bit closer to heart and less technical than my usual programming related posts. Specifically, I want to talk about my departure from medical school and why I chose to quit in the end after 5 brutal years. For those…

My last post on the importance of moving away from Gmail gained some traction unexpectedly and so I thought I would post a follow up how-to guide. For reference, here is my last post on why you should move away from your free @gmail.com account. …

Imagine you hop on your computer one morning to suddenly find that you’ve been locked out of your google account. You’ve been banned. It’s not just your email account you don’t have access to — it’s everything linked to it. All your single sign-in google linked accounts on other websites…

This piece is written with Go in mind, though the principles can be largely generalized to any language. If you’re using logrus or something like Uber’s zap logging library and connecting it via hooks to a log aggregation service like Sentry or Rollbar, it’s time to re-evaluate your application architecture…