Introduction In episode 5, Miki wrote a function that counted the number of lines in a file with interfaces. The first thing his function did was to open a file with Go’s os.Open function. Miki chose this method because the variable returned by said function implements the io.R...
The February release got a little late… better later than even later, I guess! 😄 goreleaser healthcheck It is packed with some juicy features and tons of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. Let’s take a look: Highlights On GoReleaser Pro y...
Update 2023-05-27: If you're looking for an option that works with GoReleaser and go installs, check out my more recent post Getting a --version flag for Cobra CLIs in Go. As part of working on my new Go CLI dmd, I wanted to implement a --version flag to be able to check what ver...
Introduction In episode 4, Miki defined an enumerated type that satisfied Go’s fmt.Stringer interface. By implementing the fmt.Stringer interface, Miki can specify how his enumerators were printed within a formatted string and in this case, he expected the values to be displaye...
How I switched hosting my Go-based side projects from Amazon EC2 to Fly.io, significantly simplified deployment, and saved a bit of cash while I was at it.
While working on creating a new Go CLI dmd, I wanted to set up Gorelaser to make builds much simpler, as I wanted to be able to use this with both my Linux machine and my work Mac. I thought I had it working until I realised that I was using a library that required CGO to be buil...
Updating the transparent telemetry design to be opt-in. (Transparent Telemetry, Part 4)
In Part 2 of a series about writing packages, not programs, we see how to test a package that prints to the terminal, and use the result to build our “hello, world” CLI tool.
Introduction In episode 3, Miki implemented a type that satisfied Go’s error interface. The odd thing about his type was it would be considered not-nil although no value was set for it. To get a better understanding of the situation, Miki gives a brief explanation of how Go det...