Imagine sending a secret message that’s hidden in plain sight — embedded within an innocent-looking text file. No encryption and no suspicious attachments, just pure Unicode trickery. It sounds like something out of a spy novel, doesn’t? Well, with a little bit of clever manipulation, we can use Unicode characters to conceal data in a […]
The P vs NP problem is a major unresolved issue in theoretical computer science. It challenges our fundamental understanding of computation, efficiency and the nature of problem-solving itself. This question doesn’t just examine what computers can do today. It probes the limits of what machines can achieve, and what they may never be able to […]
Sometimes “blockchain” can seem like nothing more than a hyped-up buzzword. Yet, despite the hype, it’s useful to understand the fundamental concept that lies behind it, which isn’t very difficult to grasp. It’s really quite simple and elegant. The blockchain data structure is particularly important because it’s at the heart of valuable decentralized systems like […]
The famous Gopher, which is now used as a universal symbol of the Go programming language, was designed by Renée French. The Birth of the Gopher The Gopher was first introduced in 2010 as part of a design effort to give the Go programming language a recognizable and relatable mascot. The language’s creators wanted a […]
This is the first in an upcoming series of interviews with professional software developers who use Go in their work and amateur coders who use it in their personal projects. This first interview is with Jon Rafkind, who is a senior software engineer with around 8 years of experience using Go. He has an undergraduate […]
In this blog post, we will explore several approaches that can be used to remove a substring from a larger string in Go, covering both basic cases and more complex scenarios. By the end of this guide, you should have a solid understanding of various ways to strip substrings from strings in Go and how […]
When writing Go code, it can often be useful to know how to obtain the path to the directory where the file being currently executed is located. In this post, we’ll explore how to do this in Go and discuss some of the practical applications of this knowledge. Why Would I Need the Directory of […]
When working with strings in Go, one common task is checking whether one string contains another. While this may seem straightforward, Go offers several methods, each with varying levels of complexity depending on the needs of your application. Whether you’re performing a case-sensitive substring search, looking for the index of a substring or diving into […]