Friend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a friend’s cousin: She landed her first tech internship full of excitement. Fresh out of university, no real experience in an office like that, but determined to prove she deserved to stay. One summer Monday she got a desk and a laptop. And that’s […]
READ MOREHeads up This series is written with the help of artificial intelligence (Claude), cross-checking every technical claim against the official Go documentation (go.dev) and citing the source for every relevant statement. Even so, it doesn’t replace your own judgment: compile it, test it, and be suspicious of any paragraph with no link behind it. Spot […]
READ MOREIn the previous article we installed Go and compiled our first binary. Today we cover the raw material everything else is made of: Go data types, variables and constants. And at the end, iota, that word that shows up in every Go codebase and nobody explains right the first time. Static typing, minimal ceremony Go […]
READ MORESeveral years writing code, and only now am I catching up to a mistake I’ve been dragging along the whole time: zero open source contributions. I’d bang my head against a wall if it did any good. Not one team, not one manager, tech lead, or coworker ever brought it up. Repositories, yes, since day […]
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