My name is Déwald Swanepoel and I am a developer and software architect from Johannesburg, South Africa.
I mostly enjoy backend development and designing backend systems. I perpetrate code primarily in Go and C# and I have a very (un)healthy love/hate relationship with T-SQL. I do visit my mistress, MongoDB, quite often though.
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Mar 23, 2023 · 5 min read · Today I came up against a unique challenge and landed upon an even more unique solution, so I felt it prudent to jot it down. The Scenario I don't often use the init() function in Go but today I did. I have a package called config in which I read som...
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Mar 26, 2022 · 7 min read · The code referenced by this blog is available on GitHub Like just about every person with an internet connection, I've fallen victim to the addiction of the Wordle puzzle. But this is the kind of addiction that I like because it takes no more than 5 ...
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Dec 15, 2021 · 3 min read · This is a problem I've encountered in programming more than just a few times. Recently I was faced with it again and I decided to look at it with fresh eyes and tackle it with renewed vigor. The Problem The problem is the Producer-Consumer problem. ...
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Jun 9, 2021 · 4 min read · "The art of debugging is figuring out what you really told your program to do rather than what you thought you told it to do." - Andrew Singer Recently I found myself in a hardcore session of head scratching. Maybe one day when I'm big I will know h...
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