No backup. No restore button. Still recoverable.
How I recovered deleted Shopify blog content without backups by mining Google cache, scraping cached URLs, and using quick JavaScript, Go, and bash tooling to pull usable HTML back from the web.
The prototype stops being a one-off and starts becoming a factory.
Part 2 turns the prototype into templates, adds a test-driven path for generating projects from specs, and starts shaping the code needed to stamp out repeatable service repos.
What if spinning up a CRUD service felt closer to filling out a form?
Part 1 introduces a meta-driven approach for generating CRUD services: define a model, generate protobufs and service contracts, and use Go tooling to automate the boring parts of building data APIs.
A first pass on the official driver, with the sharp edges included.
Early notes on moving from mgo to the official MongoDB Go driver, including what felt cleaner, where connection handling improved, and the reconnect and transaction limitations that stood out.