go pointers: asterisks and ampersand reference

2022-09-30

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~3 min read

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519 words

Joseph Spurrier has a great gist about how to think about pointers in Golang. He’s also made it available in an interactive Go playground. I…

go: working with json - marshalling and unmarshaling

2022-09-30

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~2 min read

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263 words

I was trying to understand more about how to actually use the package within Golang. Fortunately, Go By Example has a great set of…

git: tracking upstream

2022-09-09

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~1 min read

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147 words

One of the ways I attempted to fix my problem when my upstream repo was rejecting my pushed changes was to reset my remote. This was a…

git: ! [remote rejected] error

2022-09-08

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~2 min read

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303 words

Recently, I was doing something I’ve done numerous times: pushing a new branch up to Github. This time, however, I hit a wall. Or, more…

revisiting problems

2022-09-04

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~2 min read

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351 words

Today, I sat down to work on a problem. It wasn’t a new problem. In fact, it was a relatively old one. I’d spent months, if not years…

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