Boot.dev Blog - Pg. 11
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Top Web Development Programming Languages; A Comparison
Nov 04, 2020 by Lane WagnerThe software development industry is growing at a break-neck pace. Currently, there are close to 19 million software developers in the world, and this number is expected to double by 2030.
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Base64 vs Base58 Encoding
Nov 03, 2020 by Lane WagnerBase64 is one of the most popular encoding formats for representing data. Have some binary data?
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Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources
Nov 02, 2020 by Lane WagnerWant to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out there.
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Best Practices for Commenting Code
Oct 29, 2020 by Lane WagnerI often hear that we need more and better comments in the code we write. In my experience, we frequently need better comments, we rarely need more, and we sometimes need less.
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How to Restart All Pods in a Kubernetes Namespace
Oct 26, 2020 by Lane WagnerWhere I work, we use a repo-per-namespace setup and so it often happens that I want to restart all pods and deployments in a single Kubernetes namespace.
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The Nuances of Constants in Go; Go Isn't JavaScript
Oct 22, 2020 by Lane WagnerConstants can be confusing and easy to misuse in Go if you are coming from an untyped language.
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6 Things to Avoid When Contributing to Open-Source Projects
Oct 21, 2020 by Lane WagnerWith #HacktoberFest being a thing, there has been an influx of devs desperately trying to contribute to their favorite Open-Source projects.
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Functional Programming Course Released
Oct 19, 2020 by Lane WagnerWe just launched our new “Learn Functional Programming” course, and frankly, I’m a bit exhausted (more on that later).
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How To Correctly Validate Passwords - Most Websites Do It Wrong
Oct 15, 2020 by Lane WagnerYou’ve probably visited a site and attempted to sign-up only to be met with errors such as:
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6 Tips for Hiring Developers
Oct 13, 2020 by Lane WagnerSo you want to hire a developer? Or maybe you just want to know what is going through the heads of employers like myself.
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Running Rust in the Browser with Web Assembly
Oct 12, 2020 by Lane WagnerI’ve recently been working on getting Rust support in the boot.dev app. To write a more engaging course, I want students to be able to write and execute code right in the browser.
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Top 4 Coding Languages To Learn For Beginners in 2022
Oct 07, 2020 by Lane WagnerCoding languages, tools, and frameworks are in a constant state of flux, improvement, deprecation, and popularity swings.
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Education's Shameful State of the Art
Oct 05, 2020 by Lane WagnerHigher education had its problems before Covid-19. Now the crippling inefficiencies, backbreaking cost, and lack of alternatives are being forced into the spotlight.
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How to Structure a Golang Project
Oct 01, 2020 by Lane WagnerI lead a team that’s responsible for anywhere from 15-25 Go microservices at any given time.
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What Is Entropy In Cryptography?
Sep 28, 2020 by Lane WagnerIf you’re familiar with the laws of thermodynamics, you may recognize the second law as the one that deals with entropy.
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How to Make a Simple Vue Custom Select Component
Sep 25, 2020 by Lane WagnerCreating a custom select tag with its own styling is notoriously difficult. Sometimes it’s impossible to build from scratch without a combination of styled divs and custom JavaScript.
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Running Python in the Browser with Web Assembly
Sep 24, 2020 by Lane WagnerI’ve been wanting to expand boot.dev’s curriculum, and one of the most requested programming languages has been Python.
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Running Go in the Browser with WASM and Web Workers
Sep 23, 2020 by Lane WagnerWe’ve recently made big changes to how we execute Go in the browser on boot.dev and want to explain the enhancements.
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Practical Patterns for Technical Writing
Sep 22, 2020 by Ben BartenWriting technical documents like API or architectural documentation which exceeds a simple flow diagram can be a daunting task.
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Basic Introduction
Sep 17, 2020 by Lane WagnerElliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is a modern public-key encryption technique famous for being smaller, faster, and more efficient than incumbents.
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"Learn Algorithms" Course Released
Sep 14, 2020 by Lane WagnerWe’ve launched our new Learn Algorithms course! We wrote this course for engineers who need a refresher on computer science basics or want to learn the fundamentals for the first time.
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Is AES-256 Quantum Resistant?
Sep 10, 2020 by Lane WagnerWith quantum computers getting more powerful each year, many worry about the safety of modern encryption standards.
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How to Make Pure Functions in Golang
Sep 07, 2020 by Lane WagnerPure functions are often hyped up in the JavaScript world, probably because of the abundance of stateful front end applications.
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Guard Clauses - How to Clean up Conditionals
Sep 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerOne of the first concepts new developers learn is the if/else statement. If/else statements are the most common way to execute conditional logic.
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Create a Golang Video Streaming Server Using HLS
Sep 04, 2020 by Lane WagnerIn this tutorial, we’ll go step-by-step through building a video streaming API (which will work for music as well) in Go.