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How to Get Consistent Line Breaks in VS Code (LF vs CRLF)
Jun 18, 2020 by Lane WagnerHave you ever had the problem where you submit a pull request and the diff is much larger than it should be?
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Simple Setup - Vue Linting in VS Code
Jun 17, 2020 by Lane WagnerI’m a gopher by nature, so I expect consistent styling and linting in my codebases. More importantly, I don’t like to think about styling.
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Go-CoNLLU - Some Much Needed Machine Learning Support in Go
Jun 08, 2020 by Lane WagnerPython is commonly seen as the AI/ML language, but is often a dull blade due to unsafe typing and being slow, like really slow.
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Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll
Jun 04, 2020 by Lane WagnerIn applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other.
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How to Sort a Slice in Go
May 27, 2020 by Lane WagnerSorting is a common task in programming, and for that reason, most languages have a default sorting algorithm in their standard library.
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Using Concurrent Subscribers With RabbitMQ in Python (pika)
May 26, 2020 by Lane WagnerIt’s a fairly common scenario to subscribe to a Rabbit queue and process messages before acknowledging receipt.
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Don't Go To Casting Hell - Use Default Native Types in Go
May 21, 2020 by Lane WagnerGo is strongly typed, and with that, we get many options for simple variable types like integers and floats.
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How to Break From Nested Loops in Rust
May 14, 2020 by Lane WagnerLoops in Rust aren’t the same as standard C-style languages. The syntax is different and there are some powerful options that make looping easier.
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Variable Shadowing In Rust - "Let" Is Immutable But Not Constant
May 13, 2020 by Lane WagnerLet’s take a look at some of the common pitfalls with the keywords let and mut.
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Quantum Programming 101: Backend Monitor
May 12, 2020 by Macauley CogginsIntroduction 🔗 In a previous tutorial we showed how you can get basic information on all quantum devices using backend_overview().
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Concurrency In Rust; Can It Stack Up Against Go's Goroutines?
May 11, 2020 by Lane WagnerOne of the primary goals of the Go programming language is to make concurrency simpler, faster, and more efficient.
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Rust vs Go - Which Is More Popular?
May 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerGo and Rust are two of the hottest compiled programming languages, but which is more popular, Go or Rust?
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography
May 04, 2020 by Lane WagnerData integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integrity provides us with confidence that the message wasn’t tampered with.
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Range Over Ticker In Go With Immediate First Tick
Apr 30, 2020 by Lane WagnerThe Go standard library has a really cool type - Ticker. Tickers are used when you want to do something at a regular interval, similar to JavaScript’s setInterval.
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(Very) Basic Intro To White-Box Cryptography
Apr 27, 2020 by Lane WagnerWhite-box cryptography combines methods of encryption and obfuscation to embed secret keys within application code. The goal is to combine code and keys in such a way that the two are indistinguishable to an attacker, and the new “white-box” program can be safely run in an insecure environment.
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Using 'Go Generate' To Deploy Multi-Process Apps
Apr 22, 2020 by Lane WagnerIn microservice architectures, it’s fairly common to have a project that includes different worker types. A Makefile can be used to manage the creation of multiple programs, but the Go toolchain has a tool that can be used as well, go generate.
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What Are Golang's Anonymous Structs?
Apr 21, 2020 by Lane WagnerAn anonymous struct is just like a normal struct, but it is defined without a name and therefore cannot be referenced elsewhere in the code.
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Quantum Programming 101: Superdense Coding Tutorial
Apr 20, 2020 by Macauley CogginsWhat is Superdense coding? 🔗 Superdense coding is a quantum communications protocol that allows a user to send 2 classical bits by sending only 1 qubit.
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Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package
Apr 02, 2020 by Lane Wagnertime.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the standard library!
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Golang Conversions - Ints To Strings And Strong Typing
Mar 31, 2020 by Lane WagnerGo is a strongly typed language, which means at any point a developer should know exactly what type of value they are dealing with.
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How To Separate Library Packages in Go
Mar 29, 2020 by Lane WagnerI’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.
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I Wrote Go-TinyDate, The Missing Golang Date Package
Mar 23, 2020 by Lane Wagnertime.Time makes dealing with dates and times in Go a breeze, and it even comes bundled in the standard library!
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How to Use Mutexes in Go
Mar 19, 2020 by Lane WagnerGolang 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.
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Best Practices for Interfaces in Go
Mar 15, 2020 by Lane WagnerInterfaces in Go allow us to treat different types as the same data type temporarily because both types implement the same kind of behavior.
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors
Mar 09, 2020 by Lane WagnerErrors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky!