The first thing I do on a new Mac is configuring the terminal and shell. I always install Fish and bobthefish with patched nerd fonts. If you follow the steps in this blogpost, you will have a nice looking shell like mine: Install Homebrew If you haven’t installed Homebrew yet, head over to brew.sh to […]
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Data-Driven Testing in Go aka Table Testing or Parameterized Testing
When writing tests, we want to focus as much as possible on the actual test cases and test data, and not on implementing the individual cases. The less time you spend in writing code to implement a test-case, the more time you can spend on actual test data. This is where data-driven testing comes in […]
Running `go fmt`, `goimports` and `golangci-lint` on save with GoLand
Recently I started using GoLand for Go development. This means that I’m constantly adapting to this new editor and looking up how to do certain things. One of the things I really liked in Visual Studio Code was the formatting/linting/goimports on save. It appears that it is super simple to enable this in GoLand. Go […]
How to convert all your old AppleWorks and ClarisWorks documents to PDF?
Recently someone asked me if I could help him open old documents on his Mac. Those documents were made in 1997 with ClarisWorks (ClarisWorks is de predecessor of AppleWorks) and can’t be opened with any version of Pages (not even the oldest iWork version that runs on Intel Macs). Luckily, there is still a way […]
HTTP Test Recording with Go and go-vcr
When testing code that interacts with HTTP APIs, it is often cumbersome to test them, and especially to automatically test them with real data as part of a continuous deployment process. To tackle this, it is useful to record your API requests and responses. This can be done in Go by using go-vcr, which gives […]
Go mobile example: running Caddy on iOS
I while ago I did a small experiment to run Caddy on my iPhone. I currently have no time to do something with it, and actually build a useful Caddy iOS app, but I wanted to do a quick writeup about how you can achieve this. So others can maybe do something with Caddy on […]
Running Gogs (Go Git Service) as a service on macOS X server
This guides explains how you can run Gogs git server as a service on your Mac using launchd. Command line tools First you need to install Xcode from the Mac App Store. Once installed, you also need the Command Line Tools, you can initiate the download process by executing $ xcode-select –install in the Terminal. […]
Getting a Mac ready for development
Apple computers are awesome: they are fancy machines which make your daily life easier. But every developer knows that there are a lot of things to install and configure before you can actually start programming. This guide is an overview of how I configure my Mac for development. I’m sure everyone has his own habits […]
An introduction to PHP 7 type declarations
PHP 7 introduced a feature everyone was waiting for: typing. This solves a lot of bugs/problems caused by wrong types passed to function or returned by functions. Strict typing vs type coercion Before I introduce the actual typing of arguments or return values, I must explain PHP’s behaviour when types don’t match. By default PHP tries […]
Swift: “Open file…” dialog with NSOpenPanel
For a simple Swift Mac app I needed to be able to give the user a modal to browse files and then display it in a textfield. Luckily Cocoa has the NSOpenPanel which does exactly this. In this blogpost I give an example of how to use NSOpenPanel. Example app For this example I have […]