Smoking-Web: Starting the Project

I’m finally ready to start my smoking-web project after finishing the last of the Golang books I wanted to read to prepare. Today, I finished Let’s Go Further. It’s the second book on Go web dev I’ve read, after Let’s Go by the same author, Alex Edwards. Overall, I’ve now spend about five months to learn Go and web development. During that time, I’ve read three books on Go: Learning Go Let’s Go Let’s Go Further All three were well written. Even though I’ve been programming for about 25 years now, I somehow never did web development of any kind. That’s about to change now, and both Let’s Go and Let’s Go Further were great not just for “Webdev in Go”, but also for web development in general. ...

March 8, 2026 · 6 min · Michael

My Pet Programming Project: Smoking

Wherein I show you around one of my personal projects for logging smokes. I know there’s been a dearth of Homelab posts and projects recently, and that’s because I’m currently learning the Go programming language and some web development. Today, I’d like to tell you why. I’m a smoker, and have been for over 20 years now. About ten years back, I was feeling like I was getting close to lighting the next cigarette on the last glimmer of the previous one. I was in the habit of smoking inside my small flat during University. And I felt I was smoking too much. ...

December 14, 2025 · 6 min · Michael