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...
Introducing Certify, a purpose built library
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.
Best practices for error metadata propagation with gRPC
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...