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Escape output.", "url": "https://benhoyt.com/writings/dont-sanitize-do-escape/", "published_at": "2020-02-27T07:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0873a-893a-738d-ab65-4b2604219ba3", "title": "SEO for Software Engineers", "url": "https://benhoyt.com/writings/seo-for-software-engineers/", "published_at": "2020-02-20T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Updating a side project with AI in 275 commitsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2026
Fun with an indecisive AI coding agentoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2026
Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happenoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2026

2025

Don't fear Python subprocess or Go codegenoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2025

2024

Go performance from version 1.0 to 1.22original ↗
13 Apr 2024
The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 3.4s in nine solutionsoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2024
Switching from S3 to Tigris on Fly.iooriginal ↗
13 Feb 2024
Discussing Forth, C, CGI, Python, Go, and AWK on "Stray Pointers"original ↗
4 Feb 2024
"Stray Pointers" intervieworiginal ↗
16 Jan 2024

2023

Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Pythonoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2023
How (not) to apply for a software joboriginal ↗
26 Sept 2023
The AWK book's 60-line version of Makeoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2023
Using the WordStar diamond in 2023original ↗
17 Aug 2023
Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'original ↗
6 Aug 2023
The proposal to enhance Go's HTTP routeroriginal ↗
30 Jul 2023
Scripting with Go: a 400-line Git client that can create a repo and push itself to GitHuboriginal ↗
29 Jul 2023
Names should be as short as possible while still being clearoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2023
Lookup Tables (Forth Dimensions XIX.3)original ↗
1 Jul 2023
For Python packages, file structure != APIoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2023
Designing Pythonic library APIsoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2023
From Go on EC2 to Fly.io: +fun, −$9/mooriginal ↗
26 Feb 2023

2022

Code coverage for your AWK programsoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2022
I/O is no longer the bottleneckoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2022
microPledge: our startup that (we wish) competed with Kickstarteroriginal ↗
14 Nov 2022
Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Gooriginal ↗
12 Aug 2022
Tools I use to build my websiteoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2022
Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV supportoriginal ↗
9 May 2022
Prig: like AWK, but uses Go for "scripting"original ↗
27 Feb 2022
Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18original ↗
3 Feb 2022
Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machineoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2022

2021

AWKGo, an AWK-to-Go compileroriginal ↗
21 Nov 2021
Improving the code from the official Go RESTful API tutorialoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2021
Simple Lists: a tiny to-do list app written the old-school way (server-side Go, no JS)original ↗
3 Oct 2021
Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10original ↗
20 Sept 2021
Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itselforiginal ↗
12 Apr 2021
How to implement a hash table (in C)original ↗
26 Mar 2021
Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rustoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2021
The small web is beautifuloriginal ↗
1 Mar 2021
Coming in Go 1.16: ReadDir and DirEntryoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2021

2020

Fuzzing in Gooriginal ↗
24 Aug 2020
Searching code with Sourcegraphoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2020
Different approaches to HTTP routing in Gooriginal ↗
30 Jul 2020
Go filesystems and file embeddingoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2020
The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Trackoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2020
What's new in Lua 5.4original ↗
14 Jul 2020
Hugo: a static-site generatororiginal ↗
7 Jul 2020
Generics for Gooriginal ↗
30 Jun 2020
More alternatives to Google Analyticsoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2020
Lightweight Google Analytics alternativesoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2020
An intro to Go for non-Go developersoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2020
ZZT in Go (using a Pascal-to-Go converter)original ↗
29 May 2020
Testing in Go: philosophy and toolsoriginal ↗
27 May 2020
The state of the AWKoriginal ↗
20 May 2020
What's coming in Go 1.15original ↗
13 May 2020
Don't try to sanitize input. Escape output.original ↗
27 Feb 2020
SEO for Software Engineersoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2020