After 16 months of fostering my wife and I have officially adopted Danielle!
The journey here was challenging at times, but it was oh so worth it. Now I get to call her my sweet little daughter 🥰😍 Oh and I can finally share pictures of her!
🎉 I just released AlgorithmsWithGo.com 🎉
Want to learn how algorithms and data structures work? Struggle with coding algorithms? Just want some fun coding problems while learning #golang? Check the course out!
And it is FREE! Yep, you heard me right. No💰 req for this one
You don't need to manually add struct tags to your #golang types. Almost all editors support some fort of struct tag generation, which is really handy. Multiselect can also do the trick if you are familiar with it.
If you use SQL and Go, how do you handle database migrations for your app? When do they run during a deploy, how are they rolled back, what tools, etc?
I still don't think I've seen anything as smooth as Rails was in a Go app. Figured I'd explore options again.
Go's HTTP server is concurrent by default. That's right, every incoming web request is handled in a goroutine without any extra code!
Handling requests concurrently is great because it prevents a web server from blocking. For instance, if your handler needs to use an external
Using sync.WaitGroup in your Go code to track when goroutines are finished? Avoid the common mistake of calling Add inside of the goroutine. Go 1.25 has even added a check for this in "go vet", as well as a helper fucntion - WaitGroup.Go - to help avoid this issue. #golang
In 2022, I did this weird little experiment where I redesigned the net/http Handler in #golang. Rather than having a ServeHTTP(w, r) method, I instead broke it into two parts - a handler, and a responder that is returned from the handler. 🧵👇
Go's time.Ticker is a great tool for running the same code on a set interval. For instance, you could use it to check the health of a server every 5 minutes and send you a notification if it has any issues.
The "range" keyword in Go is incredibly versatile. It can be used to range over slices, maps, and even though I don't love it, it can also be used with a single integer to create a for loop that runs that many times. Did you know it can also be used to range over a channel,
