Building Desktop App in Go using Wails

This post is a text version of packagemain #6: Building Desktop App in Go using Wails video. As we all know, Go is mostly used to build APIs, web backends, CLI tools. But what’s interesting is that Go can be used in places we were not expecting to see it.

Concurrency Trap #2: Incomplete Work

Introduction In my first post on Goroutine Leaks, I mentioned that concurrency is a useful tool but it comes with certain traps that don’t exist in synchronous programs. To continue with this theme, I will introduce a new trap called incomplete work. Incomplete work occurs...

An Overview of Go's Tooling

Occasionally I get asked “why do you like using Go?” And one of the things I often mention is the thoughtful tooling that exists alongside the language as part of the go command. There are some tools that I use everyday — like go fmt and go build — and ot...

Slow down your code with goroutines

Or: How adding goroutines can keep your CPU busy shuffling things around.

Git: check if a folder changed

Often I need to “do X only if files on some folder changed” or whatever. I always need to Google that or find it on old scripts…

Building an engine with the Veritone Engine Toolkit

Building an engine with the Veritone Engine Toolkit

How I use Postgres with Go

The libraries I love to use with Postgres

Broken windows theory: why code quality and simplistic design are non-negotiable

Integration Testing in Go: Part I - Executing Tests with Docker

Introduction “Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.” - Burt Rutan Burt Rutan is an aerospace engineer who designed Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. Although Rutan was not a software engineer, his words s...