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I believe we can do better regarding software engineer interviews and this entire process (also including onboarding). I think companies that will be mediocre at those two aspects will have a hard time with younger programmers, which I fully support.

Iterators are going to be useful to process large amount of data without having to load an entire slice or maps in memory but instead create iterators that can be used from a for item := range myIterators().

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Something absurd happened in 2024 for one of my consulting client's production web application, and this code for a time. The time zero value is behaving differently than it has been since 2018.

    Date has a value:     No date, zero value
I launched my new course Build a Google Analytics in Go, if you're interested and/or want to support this show that's how to do it.

I react to the post on the Go subreddit of last week talking about a null pointer error occuring in production for a Go program.

This is the YouTube video I made.

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Typical reasons to use Go might sounds exciting for us used to Go, but might not be as attractive for people that haven't experienced Go yet and might not realize they have some small heritants that Go fixes/improves.

I've pre-launched my new course call Build a Google Analytics in Go, as listener to this podcast you're getting a 50% off during pre-sale, the course is due to launch before the end of December.

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Things were very different when I started as a junior developer. This is a story of an out of the ordinary day where worked from ~9h am to 11am (the next day), the two of us that were in charge of everything at a small financial company.

This one has nothing to do with Go, but I thought it was worth telling as a story.

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As we're building more and more of distributed systems I believe that one trait / culture successful team will require is discipline. Personal opinion, we tend to complicate our lives in the last decade compare to what things were before. But without an extra attention to some details, it will be a nightmare to maintain systems in the long run.

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I talk about dependencies management in Go. How to keep your dependencies up-to-date and how to check if there's any updates available. What to do when a package change their major version.

List all packages and latest versions:
$ go list -m -u all

Update all packages to their latest minor versions:
$ go get -u ./...

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I was toying with the idea of using WebAssembly runner as a plugin / extension mechanism from a Go (host) program to extend the capabilities of a program at runtime.

* min/max bult-ins coming in 1.21: https://tip.golang.org/ref/spec#Min_and_max
* wazero: https://github.com/tetratelabs/wazero
* wasmr: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-go
* StaticBackend: https://github.com/staticbackendhq/core

I'm trying to make my open source backend API project StaticBackend as easy as possible to contribute.

Couple of things I've added lately was worth mentionning. GitHub Codespaces is helpful and nicely done. It goes 1-step further than Docker and make contributing to an open source project a simple task, especially for small and quick 1-time contribution.

This couple with GitHub CLI, which I admit, have just starting using it. And linters to make sure the quality of the code is as high as it can be.

StaticBackend website | GitHub repo

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