Dewald Swanepoel

Dewald Swanepoel

Occasionally I figure something out. I imagine it might be wise to jot that down, if not for anyone's interest other than my future self.

The Anonymous Anonymous Function

Mar 23, 20235 min read

A peculiar use for anonymous functions in Go · Today I came up against a unique challenge and landed upon an even more unique solution, so I felt it...

The Anonymous Anonymous Function

Wordle Solver

Mar 26, 20227 min read

Solving Wordles with RegEx · The code referenced by this blog is available on GitHub Like just about every person with an internet connection, I've...

Wordle Solver

Bursty producer, Laggy consumer

Dec 15, 20213 min read

A concurrency exercise in Go · This is a problem I've encountered in programming more than just a few times. Recently I was faced with it again and I...

Bursty producer, Laggy consumer

Peculiar production bug

Jun 9, 20214 min read

One of the more nuanced bugs I had to grapple with recently · "The art of debugging is figuring out what you really told your program to do rather than...

Peculiar production bug