Breaking gRPC 🔗
How to avoid breaking gRPC clients. [...]
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Morse Code 🔗
Explore the history of Morse code, from its dits and dahs to the first transatlantic cable. Discover how this elegant system was the original binary a [...]
Can You Hack a Phone with Your Voice? 🔗
Or How I Got Thousands of Mastodon Users to Whistle at Their Screens [...]
Visualizing the Internet (2025) 🔗
An all-new interactive map of the Internet, showing the evolution of undersea cables and internet exchanges with year-by-year animation and detailed s [...]
HTTP QUERY and Go 🔗
We need another HTTP verb. I'll explain why. [...]
I made a daily word game 🔗
Taking a peek under the covers of making a daily puzzle game [...]
Protovalidate: Can Input Validation Be This Easy? 🔗
Effortless input validation for Protobuf! Protovalidate lets you define rules directly in your .proto files. [...]
Behold! The Barcode Scanner 🔗
<p> <img hspace="5" src="https://kmcd.dev/posts/barcode-scanner/cover_hu_a0105d126c57d428.webp " /> </p> [...]
Mixing CEL and Protobuf for Fun 🔗
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FauxRPC and Protovalidate 🔗
<p> <img hspace="5" src="https://kmcd.dev/posts/fauxrpc-protovalidate/cover_hu_cc063547c579daa5.webp " /> </p> [...]
The Call of the Monolithic Codebase 🔗
Are monoliths cool again? [...]
FauxRPC + Test Containers 🔗
Effortless gRPC Mocking in Go [...]
Self-Documenting Connect Services 🔗
gRPC can be pretty, too. [...]
gRPC Over HTTP/3: Followup 🔗
Let's cover some recent updates! [...]
JSON to Protobuf Conversion 🔗
Deep dive into a small Protobuf tool [...]
gRPC: The Ugly Parts 🔗
The seedy underbelly of gRPC. [...]
Working with Protobuf in 2024 🔗
Tools and tricks for developing with protobuf. [...]
Introducing FauxRPC 🔗
I made a server that outputs nonsense. [...]
HTTP/1.0 From Scratch 🔗
Laying the Foundation: Building the Web with HTTP/1.0. [...]
Y'all are sleeping on HTTP/3 🔗
<p> <img hspace="5" src="https://kmcd.dev/posts/yall-are-sleeping-on-http3/cover_hu_2121eccfa92cb760.webp " /> </p [...]
HTTP/0.9 From Scratch 🔗
Building the foundation with HTTP/0.9 [...]
What version of HTTP are you using? 🔗
Find out if your browser using the latest and greatest. [...]
Texans in Denmark 🔗
Why I decided to go from BBQ to Smørrebrød. [...]
gRPC Over HTTP/3 🔗
Turbocharging gRPC with HTTP/3 [...]
gRPC: The Good Parts 🔗
Not perfect, but still pretty awesome. [...]
Leaving Texas for Greener Pastures 🔗
Why I left my life behind. [...]
gRPC: The Bad Parts 🔗
gRPC isn't perfect but who is? [...]
Unit Testing ConnectRPC Servers 🔗
Learn how to test your ConnectRPC services. [...]
Daily Prompts 🔗
Kickstart your creative juices with a daily writing prompt. [...]
Adding chart.js to Hugo 🔗
Let's find out how to add chart.js to your static website built with Hugo. [...]
Why I'm Rebranding 🔗
Find out why the name of this website changed [...]
Benchmarking gRPC (golang) 🔗
Let's so how fast gRPC can go in Go. [...]
Blog Update 🔗
An update about the state of the blog. [...]
gRPC From Scratch: Part 3 - Protobuf Encoding 🔗
Let's look under the hood of gRPC by getting into the weeds of protocol buffers. [...]
Tracking the Wins 🔗
Stay motivated and avoid burnout [...]
Visualizing the Internet (2024) 🔗
Map of the Internet including undersea cables and internet exchanges. [...]
Making Greppable Code 🔗
Meaningful names help make code searchable so think twice before naming everything 'entity' [...]
Building APIs with Contracts 🔗
Building for Scale: Why contract-based APIs are the future. [...]
Dropping Unknown Fields in ConnectRPC 🔗
Learn how to drop unknown fields in ConnectRPC to enhance the security of your gRPC services exposed to the internet. [...]
RESTless: Web APIs After REST 🔗
Web APIs are the backbone of the modern web, but the ever-evolving landscape demands a rethink. This article explores alternatives to the traditional [...]
Introducing unknownconnect-go 🔗
unknownconnect-go is library that helps developers using gRPC identify compatibility issues caused by mismatched message definitions. [...]
Unknown Fields in Protobuf 🔗
Let's delve into the confusing and neat feature of protobuf; unknown fields [...]
Making gRPC more approachable with ConnectRPC 🔗
Unleash the power of gRPC: ConnectRPC breaks down barriers, enabling frictionless communication between gRPC, gRPC-Web, and any HTTP client. [...]
Inspecting Protobuf Messages 🔗
<p> <img hspace="5" src="https://kmcd.dev/posts/inspecting-protobuf-messages/cover_hu_9163ecae201b3fce.webp " /> < [...]
Introducing protoc-gen-connect-openapi 🔗
<p> <img hspace="5" src="https://kmcd.dev/posts/protoc-gen-connect-openapi/cover_hu_666c893d7cc82563.webp " /> </p [...]
gRPC From Scratch: Part 2 - Server 🔗
Last part we created a simple gRPC client. Let's take it a bit further. Let's implement a simple gRPC server in go. [...]
gRPC From Scratch: Part 1 - Client 🔗
gRPC is an incredibly popular RPC framework that efficiently connects services. But how does it work? Let's dive in! [...]
Why you should use gNMI over SNMP in 2024 🔗
gNMI is better than SNMP and more people need to know about it. [...]
The Rollercoaster of Productivity in Side Projects 🔗
Frank talk about the rollercoaster of productivity. [...]
Lessons from a Decades-Long Project 🔗
Inside Evepraisal's operations: data automation, databases, deployment, and advice for similar projects. [...]
How I learned to code 🔗
This is a small post that discusses how I learned computer programming, from cheating at calculator games to anime fan site to a handmade content mana [...]
Economists with (virtual) Guns 🔗
This is a story about how I came to create evepraisal.com, a popular tool for Eve Online that is commonly used to price check cargo scans, contracts, [...]
Visualizing the Internet (2023) 🔗
Journey into the depths of the Internet with this incredible map showcasing undersea cables and internet exchanges. [...]
softlayer-python: language bindings/CLI for a cloud company 🔗
I wrote and maintained language bindings for a large cloud company. Join me as I reflect on that experience. [...]
SwFTP: SFTP/FTP Server For Openstack Swift 🔗
Describing an old project of mine from 2014; an SFTP/FTP interface over an object storage API using Python Twisted. [...]
Video: Morning Copenhagen Commute 🔗
A video showing my commute to work on a bike from the island of Amager to the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. [...]
Goodbye Evepraisal 🔗
Saying goodbye to an amazing long-running project; evepraisal price checking utility for the MMORPG game Eve Online [...]
Visualizing the spectrum of the sun (Part 2) 🔗
Revisiting visualizing the light that comes from the sun. Spectrum analysis, wavelengths of light, data visualization [...]
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Visualizing the Internet (2022) 🔗
I drew a pretty map that shows the underwater cables that carry our data around the world; fiber optic cables, submarine cables [...]
Evepraisal: A price estimation tool for Eve Online 🔗
Evepraisal - Introducing the price estimation tool for the MMORPG game Eve Online that I created. Sometimes the best way to play is not to play [...]
Visualizing the spectrum of the sun 🔗
Visualizing the visual spectrum of the sun. Spectrum analysis, wavelengths of light, data visualization [...]
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