How to manage Slack constant interruptions – EOD emails
Most people working in startups spent their teenage/young adult years on chat: IRC, ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Skype, Campfire, iMessage, Hangout, HipChat, Slack… Name your...
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1st Go Lunch
Today we had our first Santa Monica Go Lunch. The concept is simple, we gather a few gophers around a table to share food and...
How Go Helped Shape Splice’s engineering culture
This article was written for a series for Go’s 5th birthday. Go is a trendy programming language, but let’s be honest: the Go language doesn’t...
Lesser-Known Features of Go Test
Lesser-known features of go test Most gophers know and love go test, the testing tool that comes with Go’s official gc toolchain. It is quite...
iota: Elegant Constants in Golang
Some concepts have names, and sometimes we care about those names, even (or especially) in our code...
Wire Up a Synth with the Web Audio API
In my last post, I wrote about rendering graphics programmatically on the web. This week, I’d like to do the same for audio. Instead of...
The Surprise is in the Pudding
Embracing surprises when building a product leads to unexpected benefits.
Contributing to Open Source Git Repositories in Go
Dependencies. They're knotty, and there really is no straight-forward, one-size-fits all solution.
Go: pay upfront or get a credit line
Simplicity is one of these words that get thrown in arguments between developers to defend one approach against another. However, the meaning of the word seems...
Going the extra mile: golint and go vet
Go has a lot of awesome tools to help install packages and write readable, safe and correct code. Some are already well-known and widely used, such as go get or gofmt, but there are other gems hiding under the go command umbrella...
How To Ensure a Type Implements an Interface (golang)
In Go, interfaces are implemented implicitly, meaning that the developer doesn't need to declare the interfaces it implements....
Draw by Numbers with SVG
Designs for UI widgets often incorporate shapes of such geometric simplicity that it seems a shame to spend the effort, disk space, and bandwidth of creating, storing, and delivering bitmaps for them.
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