Publishing to the VS Code Marketplace with CI
While setting up CI for LanceDB Explorer, a VS Code extension I built for browsing LanceDB databases, I wanted git tag vX.Y.Z && git push to publish straight to the VS Code Marketplace.
Cutting Vercel Fluid CPU with Next.js Server-Side Caching
Got an email from Vercel about reaching limits and checked to see Fluid Active CPU spiking for worldcuppicks.co. Obviously I don’t want to go to premium, so I implemented certain measures to bring it down. We are in the knockout rounds now, so I wanted to get it sorted before things got worse.
More …TIL: Streaming Data in Go with iter and yield
While building RagPack, a library that chunks files for embedding, I needed a common way to stream parsed content from multiple file formats. RagPack supports CSV, PDF, DOCX, HTML, XLSX, Markdown, JSON and more. Each format has its own parser, but the ingester that consumes them should not care which one it is talking to. I needed a shared contract. In Java I would have reached for an Iterator<T> or an InputStream, but in Go the answer turned out to be the iter package, introduced in Go 1.23.
Publishing to npm Without Storing a Token
When setting up CI/CD for RagPack, I wanted to publish to npm from GitHub Actions without storing a long-lived token as a secret. Tokens are annoying: they expire, need rotating, and if they leak you have a problem.
More …Using pg_cron for Match Notifications
While working on my side project, worldcuppicks.co (a site where you predict World Cup games), I needed to add web push notifications. To build this, I used a Postgres extension I’d been wanting to try: pg_cron. It ended up doing more than I expected, so I wanted to write about it.