Valhalla Research

10 Web Applications in 1 Year - The First Deployment

At the tail end of last month, I announced that I was embarking on a journey to get better at releasing web applications publicly. When I first started mulling over my approach, I knew I should probably start small. No authentication, no payment processing and a very limited back end.

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I'm working on a project (mission?) to release 10 web applications to the internet in one year. My first step on this journey has been to stand up a simple personal landing page, a place to link to my blog and all of the other projects I'

10 Web Applications in 1 Year

I realized not long ago that one of the largest detriments to my weightlifting training was consistency. I would go 4 times a week for 2-3 weeks, and then get "busy" and drop out of the habit for a month, only to try to rebuild momentum month after

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Creating a DigitalOcean Droplet with Golang

Create Droplets with ease on DigitalOcean infrastructure using Golang and DO's REST API!

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Go Routines - Wicked Fast Concurrency in Golang

Want to write wicked fast Golang with no cost whatsoever, ever, any time? Go routines are (not) for you!

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The Gin Framework - REST API's with Golang

REST API's are rad. Golang is rad. What if I told you that you can use Golang to make REST API's using the Gin framework?

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Golang Microservices - How to Make a Golang Lambda Function

Golang rocks, microservices rock, let's combine the two with some lazy DevOps and get rocking.

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Using Golang to Interact with REST API's

GoLang ROCKS for parsing REST API data. Here's why, using the DigitalOcean API as an example.

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Terraform - The Basics

Terraform is DevOps for the lazy, and I think I'm in love.

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Delaying GrabbrApp's Launch

Development work is hard. Don't make it harder with arbitrary deadlines

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Full-Stackism and Being a Well-Rounded Developer

Full-stackism is one of the best ways to become a well-rounded developer

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Disruption Isn't Just Moving Money Around

Disruption != "twitter but now more fascist"

Pushing the Pico - D3d_Dr0p and Hyperlocal E-Graffiti

I've recently discovered that Raspberry Pi Pico W's, a tiny microcontroller with a wireless chip, are only $6 a board, a price so low that my mind created a myriad of projects around it that I just had to start on. So, as any rational human

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Writing is Dead and Meetings are Killing It

Writing is dying the death-by-zoom.

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The Tightening Belt

The popping of the tech bubble is a good thing, actually

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Software prefiguration

Software prefiguration is a high-potential, relatively low-risk route to a liberated society.

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Chicken, egg, data model

What comes first, `chicken_id`, `egg_id` or `makechicken()`?

A builder's approach to content creation

I did some introspection recently and came to the conclusion that I've been going about most things wrong, despite finding what some might call success in a lot of my ventures. I've been a... content consumer? for quite some time now. I was watching YouTube pretty

Rust Snippets #0 - The Windows Function

This is the first in an ongoing log of easy/simple/esoteric methods, functions and patterns in Rust that will (hopefully) make your life easier. I'm writing it in parallel to a similar series in Python, the first post of which you can find here. This article is

Project-Oriented Learning, or How to Learn Anything

I've talked about it before that one of the things that drew me to computer science versus physics, chemistry, biology or any of the other popular sciences is the opportunity for fast, iterative and virtually free (often actually free) experimentation. Chemistry often requires an expensive lab and tons

Learning Rust - Rust Book Chapters 1-3

I've been writing Rust for a couple of months now but noticed I was quickly starting to run into a lack of knowledge on some foundational topics that was leading to frustrating bugs and annoying dead ends. So, instead of trying to forge ahead in the hopes that

Python Snippets #0 - Array Slicing

This is the first of an ongoing and probably infrequent series on Python snippets, or short, basic hints for Python to make your developer life easier. This one is incredibly basic: array slicing! Array slicing, or the syntax to create sub-arrays from input arrays, is an incredibly useful concept that

Road to OSCP 0x0 - Starting the Road to the PNPT

This is the year that I'm finally going to conquer the OSCP. I've talked about my plan for studying for the OSCP in a YouTube video, but I'll rehash it a bit here on the blog as well. The plan is to study up

Learning Rust - Lifetimes and Scope

I've been livestreaming malware development in Rust several times per week over the last two weeks over on YouTube and Twitch. There was a bit of consternation about me switching over to Rust early on: a lot of people really wanted to see me stick it out with

How Malware Works

I had a question on one of my posts on YouTube that made me realize that some people may not be super familiar with some of the terminology surrounding malware development and reverse engineering. This isn't meant as a shame on the OP, moreso a failure on my