Applied Go

Define an anonymous function and invoke it right away: A pattern that is sometimes useful but hard to read and hence qualifies as 'clever, not clear'

You might feel powerless in the face of recent and upcoming disruptions. Think twice: Your Go skills are your secret weapon.

Go doesn't enforce struct initialization to be complete. A linter helps to catch half-baked initialization.

Go CLI tools should come with a man page. Here is how to distribute a man page with Goreleaser and homebrew

Go has an unconventional way of specifing time format. While time format strings can be confusing to construct, they are dead easy to read.

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