https://jamescun.com/Recent content on James CunninghamHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbWed, 18 Jan 2023 19:16:00 +0000https://jamescun.com/posts/my-engineering-principles/Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:16:00 +0000https://jamescun.com/posts/my-engineering-principles/A digital garden project, documenting the principles I follow after 12 years as a software engineer.https://jamescun.com/posts/write-your-own-encryption/Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:00:00 +0100https://jamescun.com/posts/write-your-own-encryption/NEVER write your own encryption! or so is often quipped online, and it’s good advice - but it’s not complete. It should be never productionize your own encryption! One of the best ways to learn, at least for me, is to fuck around and find out. Recently I’ve written my own implementations of TLS and SSH, both protocols we use daily but rarely introspect. Would I ever trust my own implementation in a real environment?https://jamescun.com/posts/descriptive-naming/Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:26:00 +0000https://jamescun.com/posts/descriptive-naming/Some thoughts on descriptive vs fun naming of system components.https://jamescun.com/posts/golang-monorepo-structure/Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:02:16 +0100https://jamescun.com/posts/golang-monorepo-structure/Some thoughts on structuring Monorepos and Go Microservices.https://jamescun.com/posts/on-the-looming-tech-downturn/Sat, 28 May 2022 10:16:00 +0100https://jamescun.com/posts/on-the-looming-tech-downturn/Thoughts on the looming tech downturn.https://jamescun.com/posts/golang-generics-rest-api/Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:26:05 +0100https://jamescun.com/posts/golang-generics-rest-api/A brief guide on reducing boilerplate when writing REST APIs with Go and Generics.