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Wed, Sep 27, 2017

Things to know about HTTP in Go

Go has a very strong standard library, and one of the most used parts of it is the net/http package, which provides structures that make development of HTTP servers and clients very straightforward. There are a few edge cases, where a deeper understanding of the http and related packages is very welcome.

Sat, Sep 2, 2017

Parsing strings with Go

Parsing strings would arguably be one of the more basic operations that one can do in any language. Sometimes, this may mean comma separated values from an user input on a web page, it may mean parsing application arguments from os.Args, or parse some line based input like lines from an IRC chat, Slack, Discord or some other chat system for a bot.

Tue, Aug 22, 2017

Embedding data in Go executables

If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been developing Pendulum editor as part of the #100DaysOfCode challenge, where one commits to writing code at least one hour per day. Pendulum is a web based editor which is great for editing simple text and Markdown files.

Wed, Aug 16, 2017

The thing about dates

Last week I started to challenge myself with #100DaysOfCode. During the week I wrote a Twitch Bot that connects to a list of twitch channels and monitors channel followers and provides some statistics like time watched. Common enough, the follower API provides the time when the user followed the channel and in order to store it to the database with Go, I wanted first to convert it to a time.Time.