Golang Go Makes Art Those of you who have followed the blog for a long time will remember that some time ago, I expressed my intention to self-publish a book about graphics programming using Preslav Rachev 25 Nov 2020 • 2 min read
Golang Use Dotenv Files When Developing Your Go Apps Overcome the hurdles of managing environment variables, while developing your next Go app. Preslav Rachev 10 Nov 2020 • 3 min read
Golang Q/A: Could Go Become the Next Great Programming Language for AI? While Go may never be a language of choice for data exploration and building complex machine learning models, it is the engineer's best friend when it comes to making the rest of the process possible. Preslav Rachev 1 Nov 2020 • 2 min read
Projects Does the Go World Need a Book About Graphics Programming? I have been toying with the idea of writing a book about graphics programming using Go. Preslav Rachev 26 Aug 2020 • 2 min read
Programming Lessons from Go: Keep Calm and Use the Byte Array Along with error handling and the lack of generics, the prevalent use of byte slices evoked resistance at first, but I quickly got used to it. Preslav Rachev 12 Aug 2020 • 3 min read
Programming Musings on Go and Generics ... I feel like I am the only person in the Go programming community these days, who hasn't expressed an opinion about the latest generics proposal. I wish, I could say Preslav Rachev 20 Jun 2020 • 2 min read
Programming Go Tip: Copy a Reader Into a Writer Something so simple, and yet, so easy to forget right when you need it. How does one exhaustively read from a Reader and write to a Writer at the same Preslav Rachev 16 Jun 2020 • 1 min read
Programming A Simple Way to Keep a Go App Up and Running Poor man’s Kubernetes Preslav Rachev 24 May 2020 • 1 min read
Crystal A Crystal in Go’s World Imagine a programming language with the ergonomic syntax of Ruby, the speed of execution of C, the concurrency model of Go, and last but not least, a compiler that performs Preslav Rachev 26 Jan 2020 • 3 min read
Programming Simple Immutable Builders in Go, Using Value Receivers Even in a simple language like Go, concurrently updating mutable state is like playing with fire. Take this piece of code, for example: l := content.NewLoader() l.PageCount = 5 c Preslav Rachev 6 Oct 2019 • 2 min read
Programming My Baby Steps with Go Last week, I made my first tentative foray into Go programming. My company uses Go in a couple of projects, but although I have heard many positive things about the Preslav Rachev 20 Feb 2019 • 2 min read
