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Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package

Apr 02, 2020 by Lane Wagner

time.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the standard library!

Golang Conversions - Ints To Strings And Strong Typing

Mar 31, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Go is a strongly typed language, which means at any point a developer should know exactly what type of value they are dealing with.

How To Separate Library Packages in Go

Mar 29, 2020 by Lane Wagner

I’ve often seen, and have been responsible for, throwing code into packages without much thought. I’ve quickly drawn a line in the sand and started putting code into different folders (which in Go are different packages by definition) just for the sake of findability.

How to Use Mutexes in Go

Mar 19, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Golang is King when it comes to concurrency. No other language has so many tools right out of the box, and one of those tools is the standard library’s sync.

Best Practices for Interfaces in Go

Mar 15, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Interfaces in Go allow us to treat different types as the same data type temporarily because both types implement the same kind of behavior.

Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors

Mar 09, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky!

JWT Authentication in Golang

Feb 20, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Go is becoming very popular for backend web development, and JWT’s are one of the most popular ways to handle authentication on API requests.

BitBanged SPI in Go, An Explanation

Jan 09, 2020 by Lane Wagner

I’m going to focus mostly on some design decisions and also how I went about writing an SPI interface using Go on a Raspberry Pi.

Top 6 Golang Logging Best Practices

Jan 07, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Let’s discuss a few rules of thumb for logging in Go, as well as some features you may not have heard of that can make debugging easier.

How to Create Constant Maps, Slices, & Arrays in Golang

Oct 21, 2019 by Lane Wagner

The quick answer is that Go does not support constant arrays, maps or slices. However, there are some great workarounds.

The Proper Use of Pointers in Go (Golang)

Sep 25, 2019 by Lane Wagner

Go has become increasingly popular in recent years, especially in my local area. It has been consistently displacing other backend languages like Ruby, Python, C# and Java.