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StevenACoffman / Office-Furniture.md
Last active November 25, 2020 18:17
Office Furniture
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StevenACoffman / time.md
Last active July 8, 2022 18:29
Time format

From Go: Format a time or date

Consider just running dateparse:

go get -u github.com/araddon/dateparse/dateparse
dateparse --timezone="UTC" "2019-11-20T22:32:59.882Z"
dateparse --timezone="America/Detroit" "2017-07-19 03:21:00"

Go: Format a time or date

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StevenACoffman / go-swagger-ui.md
Created May 31, 2020 03:06
golang serve Swagger-ui

From https://medium.com/@ribice/serve-swaggerui-within-your-golang-application-5486748a5ed4

SwaggerUI can be downloaded from their GitHub Repo Releases page. Once downloaded, place the contents of dist folder somewhere in your Go project. For example, swaggerui. After that, also move your openapi.json or swagger.json file to swaggerui folder (or whatever you called it), and inside index.html change url to ./swagger.json (e.g. url: "./swagger.json").

Serve using net/http

fs := http.FileServer(http.Dir("./swaggerui"))
http.Handle("/swaggerui/", http.StripPrefix("/swaggerui/", fs))

Serve using Gorilla Mux (commit)

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StevenACoffman / opa-vs-casbin.md
Last active April 17, 2025 09:04
OPA vs Casbin

Information in this Gist originally from this github issue, which is outdated.

As @RomanMinkin mentioned, you can also consider Casbin (https://github.com/casbin/casbin). It is the most starred authorization library in Golang. There are several differences between Casbin and OPA.

Feature Casbin OPA
Library or service? Library/Service Library/Service
How to write policy? Two parts: model and policy. Model is general authorization logic. Policy is concrete policy rule. A single part: Rego
RBAC hierarchy Casbin supports role hierarchy (a role can have a sub-role) Role hierarchies can be encoded in data. Also with the new graph.reachable() built-in function queries over those hierarchies are much more feasible now.
RBAC separation of duties Not supported Supported: two roles cannot be assigned together
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StevenACoffman / phabricator-vs-github.md
Last active July 17, 2023 03:23
PhabricatorVsGithub.md

What's the diff between phabricator and github?

Phabricator’s and github’s usage of git is very different. With github you are always pushing new commits, but with phabricator you should never push (except when updating a deploy branch from master). You are better off pretending that we don't actually use git, and that the Khan Academy recommended Phabricator workflow is a series of inscrutable magic incantations that must be meticulously performed or you'll release Ẕ̶̨̫̹̌͊͌͑͊̕͢͟a̡̜̦̝͓͇͗̉̆̂͋̏͗̍ͅl̡̛̝͍̅͆̎̊̇̕͜͢ģ̧̧͍͓̜̲͖̹̂͋̆̃̑͗̋͌̊̏ͅǫ̷̧͓̣͚̞̣̋̂̑̊̂̀̿̀̚͟͠ͅ.

If you are still irrationally stubborn, like I am, and really want to continue using the familiar and universal-outside-khan git workflow, then since you will be fighting the Khan tools you need to be firm and unambiguous in communicating to phabricator what you want it to do.

My workflow is always:

  1. Make a branch.
  2. Make some changes
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Created April 23, 2020 15:49 — forked from santisbon/Search my gists.md
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StevenACoffman / AreWeSureWeNeedIt.md
Last active May 25, 2022 13:07
AreWeSureWeNeedIt

I think "being sure we need it" is shorthand for a particular list of costs that apply to any new dependency and new way of doing things, such as:

  • cost of people learning how two different ways of handling things work, and having to choose between them
  • cost of the inevitable cases where the library's choices don't mesh with ours
  • cost of the inevitable cases where our libraries have to be modified to work with the new one (for example, we would probably have to make sure KhanErrors and MultiErrors can be composed both ways nicely -- possibly to the point of wrapping the whole lib)
  • maintenance cost if the library later goes unmaintained, or makes breaking changes we need to incorporate, or whatever

— ben kraft

Yagni originally is an acronym that stands for "You Aren't Gonna Need It". It is a mantra from ExtremeProgramming that's often used generally in agile software teams. It's a statement that some capability we presume our software needs in the future should not be built now because "yo