I’m going to take a little diversion from discussing Go code today in order to share a curious story from the history of computing. What Was MiniScribe? MiniScribe was established in 1980 as a manufacturer of computer hard-disk drives (HDDs), and it had soon become an important supplier to the fast-growing tech industry. The company’s […]

Even the best-written code will occasionally run into problems. If hardware breaks, network connections are lost or users provide unexpected input, errors make us aware of the problem and allow us to take action to fix it. We will begin by discussing how errors are defined in Go and then we will go through some […]

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of optimizing your website in order to rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs). I’ve built multiple websites over the years, with varying degrees of success, and this blog that focuses on the topic of Go coding is my latest project. So I want to share some […]

It’s possible to write thousands of lines of Go code without declaring a pointer even once. However, pointers are an important part of the programming language, so it’s important to ensure that you understand how they work. In this post we will discuss the definition of a pointer and then go on to look at […]

Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Google recently lost his job after he went public with claims that Google’s LaMDA had attained such a level of consciousness that it could reasonably be considered a person. He even raised the possibility that LaMDA could experience a level of suffering that risked Google’s complicity in its exploitation, […]

Passwords provide access to many of the websites and online services that we use on a daily basis. It is, therefore, vitally important to ensure that our passwords are secure and less prone to attack by anyone who may wish to do you harm. This post will discuss nine common mistakes that you or others […]

This post will discuss what YAML is and how its syntax works. We will then move on to a simple real-world example, so you can see how YAML looks. Finally, we will learn how a program can be written in Go code that is able to read and write data formatted in YAML. What Is […]

This post will discuss what a zero value is and how it can be relied upon to give some default state to initialized variables. It’s important to know the zero values for each of the basic data types in Go, in order to use them in your own code, so we will also provide a […]