Portrait of rpgh

$ whoami

Software engineer who likes small, fast, boring-in-a-good-way web apps -- mostly Go on the backend and hypermedia on the wire.

real-time systems · event-driven backends · server-rendered UIs · developer tooling

../ ~/rpgh/videos

$ ls ./videos

$ datastar series 11 videos

A walk through Datastar from first principles: what hypermedia is, how the wire protocol works, and what every data-* attribute actually does.

@lockincode
watch the playlist

$ Server Sent Events Overview

A side trip through HTTP and SSE theory -- why Datastar rides on it, and why it is simpler than it sounds.

2025-11-17

+ 10 more episodes in the playlist

$ one-offs 1 video

Standalone talks that are not part of a run, so each one stands on its own card.

@SynadiaCommunications
visit the channel

$ Message Tracing

NATS 2.11 follows a message across clusters, leaf nodes and JetStream from one CLI command -- no instrumentation, no external collector.

2026-01-30

2 channels, 12 videos