web

In this post, we will learn how to authenticate users using session cookies in a Node.js server application. When a user logs into our application, we need to know who they are across all our HTTP methods and routes. One way to do this is to store the users “session”. A session is started once a user logs in, and expires some time after that. Each logged in user has some reference to the session (called a cookie), which they send with their requests....

In this post, we will learn how to authenticate users using session cookies in a Golang server application. When a user logs into our application, we need to know who they are across all our HTTP methods and routes. One way to do this is to store the users “session”. A session is started once a user logs in, and expires some time after that. Each logged in user has some reference to the session (called a cookie), which they send with their requests....

Go is getting more and more popular as the go-to language to build web applications. This is in no small part due to its speed and application performance, as well as its portability. There are many resources on the internet to teach you how to build end to end web applications in Go, but for the most part they are either scattered in the form of isolated blog posts, or get into too much detail in the form of books....

GIFs have been around for as long as I can remember, and today they’re as popular as ever. For an image format so popular, GIFs are horribly outdated and inefficient, and they should die. Hopefully by the end of this post I’ll have convinced you to fight the plague that is the GIF image format. I could go on and on about how we should get rid of GIFs, but lets take a moment to find out why I feel so strongly about this....