Hey all, just wanted to share my new project with you. Enjoy! https://mdlayher.com/blog/corerad-a-new-ipv6-router-advertisement-daemon/

Hey folks! First, I’d like to thank my Medium followers for all of your readership and comments over the past few years. I’m writing to let you all know that I’ve decided to move my blog content away from Medium, and to my personal site: mdlayher.com. While this site has…

I am moving my blog content to mdlayher.com. Please see the updated version of this content at: https://mdlayher.com/blog/exploring-byte-parsing-apis-in-go/ I recently contributed a post to Gopher Academy’s annual advent series about building safe and ergonomic byte parsing APIs in Go. Enjoy! Exploring byte parsing APIs in Go Several years ago, I began exploring Linux's Netlink inter-process communication interface. Netlink is used for…blog.gopheracademy.com

I am moving my blog content to mdlayher.com. Please see the updated version of this content at: https://mdlayher.com/blog/network-protocol-breakdown-ndp-and-go/ If you’ve ever studied the fundamentals of computer networks, you may be familiar with the Address Resolution Protocol, or “ARP”. ARP is a crucial piece of IPv4 designed to allow computers on…

I am moving my blog content to mdlayher.com. Please see the updated version of this content at: https://mdlayher.com/blog/a-programmers-journey-with-rsi/ In 2013, I began to notice a bit of discomfort in my hands while typing. I requested a mechanical keyboard at work, and that seemed to make a difference. I brushed the…

I am moving my blog content to mdlayher.com. Please see the updated version of this content at: https://mdlayher.com/blog/accessing-smbios-information-with-go/ I recently contributed a second post Gopher Academy’s annual advent series about accessing SMBIOS/DMI information with Go. Enjoy! Accessing SMBIOS information with Go Accessing SMBIOS information with Go While speaking with coworkers recently, one of them posed a question: How can we…blog.gopheracademy.com

I am moving my blog content to mdlayher.com. Please see the updated version of this content at: https://mdlayher.com/blog/unsafe-pointer-and-system-calls/ As part of Gopher Academy’s annual advent series, I contributed a blog post that shares my experiences using package unsafe , and in particular, the unsafe.Pointer type. Enjoy! unsafe.Pointer and system calls unsafe.Pointer and system calls unsafe is a Go package that, as the official documentation states, contains operations…blog.gopheracademy.com

Last year, I co-authored this blog post with fellow DigitalOcean engineer Ben LeMasurier. It describes some of the tooling we’ve created in Go to work with QEMU and libvirt. Enjoy! Open Source at DigitalOcean: Introducing go-qemu and go-libvirt At DigitalOcean, we use libvirt with QEMU to create and manage the virtual machines that compose our Droplet product…blog.digitalocean.com

I recently authored a blog for DigitalOcean that describes how we work on cthulhu, our monolithic Go repository, or “mono repo”. Enjoy! Cthulhu: Organizing Go Code in a Scalable Repo At DigitalOcean, we've used a "mono repo" called cthulhu to organize our Go code for nearly three years. A mono repo is…blog.digitalocean.com