In this live episode Omar and myself try to write a low-level C app that does a network ping. Omar really wanted the app to be in C, so you get to watch me struggle to remember C syntax and translate bytes, chars, etc.
We do an OK job of explaining networking but a better job of explaining hex and how numbers are represented by bits (base 2) and bit shifting.
[Read More]In this live episode Omar and myself write and unit test the code for saving the Slack token to the keyring. We abandon using Testify mocks and instead add an in-memory setting for our credential manager. We also have a good discussion about test-driven development (TDD).
*PostCast is just a place holder name and might change. The goofy PostCast placeholder image was generated by ChatGPT and will likely change.
[Read More]In this episode Aaron Yong gives an overview of Passkeys and why you should use them. He also answers my naive questions about how they work.
Aaron runs Saikyo Softworks, a digital consultancy specializing in practical solutions for an ever-changing world. In his spare time he also runs the local Edmonton (YEG) Ruby, Python, and JavaScript meetup.
Passkeys IO:
https://www.passkeys.io/
In our first ever completely live episode, Omar and myself debug a GitHub push error Omar was experiencing. It was a new error for both of us and took a bit to figure out. The error was:
error: RPC failed; HTTP 400 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 400
The tl;dw (to-long;didn’t-watch) is the image was larger than the Git post buffer size. The fix was to compress the image, which is something we are doing for the Weekly Dev Chat website. Another fix is to increase the Git post buffer size.
[Read More]In this episode Omar and myself start working on the Slack integration for PostCast. We start off by reviewing what we have learned about the Slack API so far. Then we come up with a plan of attack and start implementing the plan but don’t get very far.
We struggle to remember how mocking works in Go and then run out of time as I needed to host the Weekly Dev Chat. I’m likely overthinking the mocking and am too used to other languages/technologiges where mocking is easier and more common.
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