Applied Go

In a diamond-shaped class hierarchy, methods can be ambiguous. Go has no class hierarchies, but struct embedding can cause a similar problem.

RTFM! But what if the CLI tool has no man page? Make your users happy by providing a manpage alongside your CLI app.

To have GNU-style short and long flags, you don't have to reach out to third-party packages. Go's flag package can handle double-dash, long-name flags.

How to test properties of a function call that hold true for any input

Make, Taskfile, Just, or something else? How build tools manage dependencies to avoid unnecessary work.

Package level APIs are convenient, but they aren't concurrency safe. Here is how and when to use them.

Good conventions make reading, sharing, and talking about code much easier.

Learning how the world works keeps you from having to blindly

Four methods in Go's reflect package can block dead code elimination and thus increase binary size.