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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.

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Golang tips and tricks, part 3

When you’re writing software it’s not so much the one liner that changes how you work, but the balancing act of programming patterns you use to build your software. I’m hoping to outline a few rules and patterns which make sense to me when building out software in Go.

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Dependency Injection continued

The previous post on Dependency Injection in Go stirred up some heated responses on Reddit and Twitter. I’m writing this post to illustrate some good benefits of Dependency Injection in Go when applied to some benefit. I will also demonstrate an additional, declarative DI pattern of the Factory model presented in the previous installment on this subject.

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Dependency Injection patterns in Go

Dependency Injection is a powerful approach to providing your applications with required objects and configuration instead of declaring them in code. This injection is usually used to provide mock objects for unit testing, or to run the same application in multiple environments.

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