Yesterday I added tests to server deployment in my deployServer.sh script: 
 

echo "Running tests"
cd ../../server/lib

set -e
echo "mode: set" > allcoverage.out

for d in $(go list ./... | grep -v vendor); do
    parentdir=`dirname "$d"`
    subdir=`basename "$d"`
    echo "subdir: " $sub…

Over the last couple of days I restructured SnailLife Go into a server and client. I’m still in the “rough draft” stage, but the top level project structure now looks like this:

gosnaillife
├── client
├── cmd
├── common
├── LICENSE.md
├── README.md
├── server
└── setup

• Split ap…

Made a bit more progress on the authentication basics today. Relevant commits are:

• Add http package; have auth0 test delete user it has just registered after test is done
• Create json util; add logout test

Today I focused a bit on the building and installati…

It’s almost 2am and I’m sleepy, but I wanted to write this down while it’s relatively fresh in my mind.

I’ve been playing around with user authentication in Go.

While actual user interaction is not the primary part of the simulation and will not be the focus in the Go rewrite as…

A couple of weeks ago I had the genius idea to rewrite SnailLife in Go. I’ve already looked into doing this once before a couple of years ago, but wasn’t really feeling it and stuck with PHP (mostly for nostaligia reasons). Now though, SnailLife is this bloated PHP app. Most of the core function…

It has been a while! SnailLife work has been moving at a snail's pace. Why? Because debugging the snail brain has turned into a highly demotivating, hellish endeavour. The snails make decisions and perform actions based on so much *crap*, that the simple log files I was using all long are just not …

I finally have two BrainRunners working on a DigitalOcean droplet, and one BrainHub on another droplet queueing and assigning tasks to the runners.

It's still rough, but let's start with the BrainHub's scheduled artisan commands (Artisan is the CLI that comes with Laravel):

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Note: This post may make more sense if you also check out the one I posted before Christmas on my blog (which I unfortunately forgot to also post here at the time: http://liza.io/the-brain-scope-is-growing-brainhub/

I've started this post maybe twenty times now, since before Christmas, and each ti…

• A new jar gets created when a user hosts a race
  
• When the race starts all entrants are placed into that jar in ord…