Founder/CEO of @bigfrankrecords. Freelance Music Producer, Mixing, Composer. Founder/Trainer of @gopherguides.
Boston, MA
Joined November 2008
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🔥 Boost Your Go Code Performance with These Pointer Optimization Quick Tips! 🚀
🌟 Learn when it's safe (and fast) to return pointers to local variables
🏋️♀️ Discover the performance impact of pointer vs value receivers on your structs
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It's been way to long since we wrote a #golang article for our blog (gopherguides.com/articles). Who has some ideas for us on what to write about? We always include code samples and background for the articles, so let us know needs more reference material out there!
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It's official, I've decided to create a computer programming club for my local high school. I'm creating curriculum using the GOTH stack. It will all be open source for any school to use. I'll post updates on how it goes.. .brand new territory for me! #golang.
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I'm leading a couple of workshops this year at @gophercon. You can see them here. Hope to see you there! gophercon.com/agenda/speaker…
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🐕 Go 1.22.1 and 1.21.8 are released!
🔐 Security: Includes security fixes for crypto/x509, html/template, net/http, net/http/cookiejar, and net/mail.
📣 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-a…
⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.22.1
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I never would have imagined that I would ever do another product announcement. I thought that part of my career was over... I guess not. Enjoy! #markdown #golang xitter.cf/GopherGuides/status/17… . .
Announcing "Hype"! A markdown compiler (written in #golang) and generator that validates code syntax, allows for file partials/includes, can run code and include the output in your documents, auto generate your readme from github actions, and so much more! gopherguides.com/articles/go…
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Announcing "Hype"! A markdown compiler (written in #golang) and generator that validates code syntax, allows for file partials/includes, can run code and include the output in your documents, auto generate your readme from github actions, and so much more! gopherguides.com/articles/go…
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🎊 Go 1.22 Release Candidate 1 is released!
🏃♂️ Run it in dev! Run it in prod! File bugs! go.dev/issue/new
📢 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-a…
⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.22rc1
#golang
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Want to learn about a new package in #golang? Write a blog... publish it, turn that blog into a meetup presentation, present it. Wait for the feedback. Update the blog. Update the blog again. Probably not done yet, but really great feedback so far. gopherguides.com/articles/go…
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With over 170 pages, this FREE eBook (in English) will prove equally valuable to music tech and recording students and anyone struggling with the complexities of today’s sophisticated recording technology.
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"Did", the debut EP by Boston based #indierock #punk band The Didnts. Available on all major streaming platforms.
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Earlier this summer, the Go team released version v0.12 of gopls, the language server for Go, featuring a rewrite of its core that allows it to scale to larger codebases.
Since then, we've fine-tuned the design, focusing on making interactive queries as fast as they were with v0.11, despite holding less state in memory.
Full updates → goo.gle/3sLzotE
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🎉 Go 1.21.1 and 1.20.8 are released!
🔐 Security: Includes security fixes for cmd/go (CVE-2023-39320), html/template (CVE-2023-39318, CVE-2023-39319), and crypto/tls.
🗣 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-a…
⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.21.1
#golang
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Join us on Tuesday, August 29th, in-person at @newstoreinc or virtually on NewStore's Zoom, for a talk by @markbates on how to build a testable, concise, and modular CLI app in #golang, without external dependencies!
RSVP at meetup.com/bostongo/events/2…
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The SLOG package just released in #golang 1.21 comes with many new enterprise features, such as level logging, structured logging, customizable output and so much more! Check out this article for all the new features!
gopherguides.com/articles/go…
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🥳 Go 1.21.0 is released!
🗒️ Release notes: go.dev/doc/go1.21
⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.21.0
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In #golang 1.21, the slices package will be added to the standard library. It includes many useful functions for sorting, managing, and searching slices. In this article, we will cover the more commonly used functions included in the Slices package.
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