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Should You Return Empty or Nil Slices in Go?
Sep 03, 2020 by Lane WagnerIn Go, we often need to return zero values. Idiomatic Go encourages the use of guard clauses, and guard clauses necessitate the need to return early.
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Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring
Sep 01, 2020 by Lane WagnerMy team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and more time refactoring our code and tests.
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Top 15 Golang Interview Questions [Updated 2024]
Aug 31, 2020 by Lane WagnerLet’s take a look at some good technical questions to be familiar with, whether you are looking to nail your next Golang interview, or if you’re the interviewer yourself.
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Creating a Custom Tooltip Component in Vue
Aug 28, 2020 by Lane WagnerThere are plenty of libraries out there that will have you up and running with a good tooltip solution in minutes.
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Bcrypt Step by Step
Aug 24, 2020 by Lane WagnerBcrypt is a key derivation function, which can be thought of as a special kind of hash function.
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(Very) Basic Intro to Lattices in Cryptography
Aug 21, 2020 by Lane WagnerLattice-based cryptography, an important contender in the race for quantum-safe encryption, describes constructions of cryptographic primitives that involve mathematical lattices.
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Shamir's Secret Sharing Step-By-Step
Aug 18, 2020 by Lane WagnerAdi Shamir’s Secret Sharing is a cryptographic algorithm that allows distinct parties to jointly share ownership of a single secret by holding shares.
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They Who Control Encryption
Aug 12, 2020 by Lane WagnerIf you’ve seen The Imitation Game or studied computer science in school, you have likely heard of Enigma, Alan Turing, or some of the other advances in cryptography that took place during the Second World War.
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Unexpected Printf Behavior in Go WASM - Nothing Prints
Aug 10, 2020 by Lane WagnerWhile working on boot.dev’s Go Playground, I came across a very strange error. The standard library’s fmt.
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HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs
Aug 05, 2020 by Lane WagnerHMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a string of bits that depends on a secret key and is sent with a message to prove the message wasn’t tampered with.
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Your Parent's Internet - How to Mitigate Misinformation
Jul 31, 2020 by Lane WagnerThe age of information is not what we all hoped it would be. We successfully digitized the majority of human knowledge, and we even made it freely accessible to most.
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HLS Video Streaming with Node.JS - A Tutorial
Jul 28, 2020 by Lane WagnerIn this quick tutorial, we’ll build a robust video (or music) streaming API using Node JS.
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(Very) Basic Intro to PGP (GPG)
Jul 27, 2020 by Lane WagnerPGP, or its open-source alternative, GPG, is a program used to encrypt data such that only an authorized party can decrypt it.
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(Very) Basic Intro to the Scrypt Hash
Jul 25, 2020 by Lane WagnerScrypt is a slow-by-design key derivation function designed to create strong cryptographic keys. Simply put, the purpose of the Scrypt hash is to create a fingerprint of its input data but to do it very slowly.
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Authenticate Users with "Sign In With Google" in Golang
Jul 22, 2020 by Lane WagnerUsers love convenience. If your goal is to make it easy for users to register with your app or website, then implementing the “Sign in with Google” option should be at the top of your priority list.
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How to Create a Custom Toggle Switch Component in Vue.js
Jul 21, 2020 by Lane WagnerCustom toggle switches are a pain to code from scratch. So many lines for such a simple UI widget!
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Rust Backend vs Go Backend in Web Development
Jul 17, 2020 by Lane WagnerRust and Go are two of the industry’s biggest successes when it comes to developing modern programming languages.
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Vue History Mode - Support Legacy Hash URLs
Jul 15, 2020 by Lane WagnerWhen we first launched the boot.dev’s single-page-app, we were using Vue Router’s default hash routing. Hash routing looks ugly to the end-user, and when you want to be able to share parts of your app via direct link those hashes can get really annoying.
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What is SHA-256?
Jul 08, 2020 by Lane WagnerSHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2), of which SHA-256 is a part, is one of the most popular hash algorithms around.
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How to Rerender a Vue Route When Path Parameters Change
Jul 07, 2020 by Lane WagnerIn single-page apps that use the Vue Router, it’s common to create a path parameter that changes the behavior of a route.
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Announcing a "Basic Intro to Coding" Course in JavaScript
Jul 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerThe boot.dev app - our new gamified learning platform - just launched its first JavaScript coding course!
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Boot.dev Launches Golang Crash Course - Learn Go
Jul 02, 2020 by Lane WagnerWe just launched the new boot.dev computer science platform and can’t be more excited. Our first crash course in Go, “Learn Go” is now available!
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)
Jul 01, 2020 by Lane WagnerIf you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser.
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Make Maps and Slices in Golang - A Guide to Initialization
Jun 29, 2020 by Lane WagnerThere are quite a few ways to create new maps and slices in Go, for example, they can both be initialized using the make() function, the new() function, as literals, or by using the var keyword.
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An Intro to Quantum Mechanics and Google's Quantum Supremacy
Jun 19, 2020 by Devanshi AroraThe science that deals with the description of the motion and interaction of subatomic particles is known as Quantum Mechanics.