This is a text version of this video: packagemain #10: Building Google Home Action in Go. Google Home is a voice Assistant, similar to Amazon Alexa, but working with Google services. It has a lot of built-in integrations, but what is interesting for us developers is that we can...
It’s often recommended that microservice communications are encrypted, especially if they cross the public internet. Even when you control the network, whether virtually or physically, encrypting traffic can still be valuable. Lets Encrypt has revolutionized the distributio...
Introduction I’ve been seeing a lot of question about interfaces lately on Slack. Most of the time the answers are technical and focus on implementation details. Implementation is important to help with debugging, but implementation doesn’t help with design. When it comes to...
After some time, I finally decided to move my blog from Jekyll to Hugo. That was probably the best thing I did in the past few weeks. My Jekyll builds were really slow, and the feedback loop was too big. I get easily distracted, so, I was not writing much. You can read some of m...
How to best handle errors in Go is a divisive issue, leading to opinion pieces by illustrious bloggers such as Dave Cheney, the commander himself Rob Pike as well as the official Go blog. I’m not going to tackle those opinions here, instead I’m going to talk about bes...
A nice feature of Go's http.FileServer is that it automatically generates navigable directory listings, which look a bit like this: But for certain applications you might want to prevent this behavior and disable directory listings altogether. In this post I’m going to run...
Updated (2023-03-06) Go has a great, well documented standard library. You may find yourself spending a fairly significant chunk of your Go programming time digging in stdlib docs, which is reasonable to expect at least for novice Go coders. How do folks look for stuff in the doc...