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Will
@willdot.net
Software engineer. Mainly Go. Fascinated by distributed systems.

Me and yaml indentation are enemies.

I only ship to prod on Fridays.

https://blog.willdot.net
There it is. The empty @stream.place lexicon repo trending
October 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Developing a CLI app that uses ATProto oauth. To achieve this I make use of the local host client ID so that the callback comes back to the users machine.

Problem is that every time the app is run and an oauth request happens a new "app" appears here. Is there a way to do this better?
September 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Spotted this little fella in our garden a couple times. Patiently waiting to see if it leaps up the steps.
September 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It’s trending 🤯
August 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
First step to self hosting:

Created a PDS server on an @upcloud.com server ✅

👀
August 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is a such a small but powerful change in the upcoming Go 1.25 release. I’ve seen (and done myself) the bug of adding to the wait group inside a go routine, soo many times.

#golang

pkg.go.dev/sync@master#...
August 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Took this pic of a blue dragonfly while driving a boat…..a small turn the knob to go forward boat, but still a boat
June 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I can’t stop laughing at this
June 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
May 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Oh the catchup feed idea is good. I like this. One problem though….its 90% @jcsalterego.bsky.social posts at the moment
April 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Your outie has the courage to straight up decline a meeting for being pointless.
February 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
January 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Damn. Forgot to show the best bit.

Deleting a record without a page reload 😯
January 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Look how far I’ve come in just over a month 😮‍💨
January 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ahh see here’s the random bit that got me thinking 🫣

One marble took over 30 seconds earlier.
December 30, 2024 at 9:26 AM
How come you avoided roles that involved front end when you were job hunting during the summer Will?

Me:.......
December 1, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Shamelessness borrowed from the other site.
December 1, 2024 at 1:31 PM
November 25, 2024 at 9:14 PM
It worked 😅
November 9, 2024 at 9:54 PM
It worked 🙌

The Bluesky Jetstream tool for consuming event streams is amazing. Easy to setup and start consuming.

github.com/bluesky-soci...
November 2, 2024 at 9:27 PM
October 25, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #109,143!
September 17, 2024 at 1:37 AM
I don’t know where I found this video (saved it a few years ago) but I think it’ll do just fine for my first video post.
September 12, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Oh come on!!!
May 3, 2024 at 6:05 PM
My proudest pull request 🥹
February 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM