I noticed that many struggled with encoding and decoding JSON in Go. Here I cover the issues developers run into and how to solve them.
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I am a developer working mainly with Go and PHP on a daily basis. This past weekend I got invited to the Github Copilot Technical Preview and decided to spend my entire weekend testing it out. I know there is some controversy regarding Copilot and I want to disregard that and focus on the practicality […]
When registering a domain it’s typically easy to find domain registrars with good deals, perhaps just $1 to get any domain name you want. That’s a trick to reel you in in the hopes that you will keep that domain for many years without switching registrar. The renewal fees and any additional offerings such as […]
Using an SMS Gateway called 46elks and some Go we can automate a customer feedback process which is usually done manually by calling a customer. This was an idea I had when I worked at a large sales company in Sweden a few years ago and my task was to find things that could be […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers free tier web servers where you can run simple go programs for API backends or websites. In this guide we will make a simple web server using a go program. This guide can also be used as a reference to set up AWS instances for larger go services. To begin […]
Recently I decided to set up a Pi-hole installation on my local network. Initially I was going to use a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ but the company I work for was replacing all the PCs and I was able to get my hands on one of them. Pi-hole is a simple tool which can be […]
Begin by running the following command to add the golang backports ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports If you get an error such as “add-apt-repository command not found” then you need to run the following command to install add-apt-repository:
I recently stumbled across a tweet by Melvin Davis on Twitter where he mentioned a simple tool that he had created using Go that instantly sends a Slack invite when an email is entered. This allows us to make a public slack community that anyone can join. Check-out the auto invite sender to join #slack […]
In my previous post I wrote a guide on how to post a simple Slack message using a bot with PHP. Now we will do the same thing but instead with Go. I have also decided to send a json request instead of a form-url encoded request like we did with PHP. There are some […]
I have done a lot of work with slack bots in the past both professionally and in my spare time. In the past I build a plugin for WHMCS called WHMCS Slack which was originally a paid addon but is now open source and available for free on Github. This post is a first part […]