&y H. Golang (he/him)

Software engineer at Salesforce (prev MIT), Google Developer Expert in Go, organizer at Boston Golang, resident #sloth enthusiast at everywhere

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Nov 27 '21

Type systems as told by my dog

#codenewbie #beginners #programming

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&y H. Golang (he/him) for Salesforce Engineering

Jul 23 '21

Test your Go web apps with httptest

#go #testing #codenewbie #webdev

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&y H. Golang (he/him) for Salesforce Engineering

Mar 9 '21

Intro to automated testing in Go

#go #testing #codenewbie #beginners

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Apr 20 '20

Build a web API client in Go, Part 1: Connecting to the API

#go #codenewbie #webdev #tutorial

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Feb 9 '20

How I made a slick personal logo with Go's standard library

#go #codenewbie #career #motivation

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Aug 12

#WebDevSampler challenge - My answers in Go

#webdevsampler #go #codenewbie #backend

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#WebDevSampler challenge - My answers in Go

No problem, your comment actually reminded me to put that the...

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#WebDevSampler challenge - My answers in Go

Thanks! Link to it is below, it's a series I made of 11 web d...

Aug 12

How to host a Hugo or Next.js site on GitHub Pages

Great tutorial! I remember in 2015 teaching myself Angular.js...

Aug 12

Are you a YARNer or a NPMer?

Team Yarn. Maybe npm has gotten better since I used it but I'...

Jun 11

Where do you find CFPs (Call For Papers) and Conferences to speak at?

I started the hashtag on Twitter #TheMicIsOpen as an offshoot...

May 1

#GopherDiggingRuby: Intro to blocks in Ruby

Thanks for sharing that Ruby idiom, I had not heard about tha...

Feb 15

How to Support Early-Career Developers

Excellent post, and a must-read for anyone doing any kind of ...

Jan 1

Type systems as told by my dog

Thanks! It was inspired by a conversation with @vickilanger !...

Nov 29 '21

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Aug 10

Introducing the #WebDevSampler challenge

#webdev #webdevsampler #codenewbie #100devs

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jan 22

#GopherDiggingRuby: Intro to blocks in Ruby

#ruby #codenewbie #beginners #go

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jan 18

#GopherDiggingRuby: Make a dev.to image link fetcher in Ruby

#ruby #codenewbie #webdev #tutorial

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jan 1

Convert images to mosaics in p5.js

#javascript #art #tutorial #codenewbie

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&y H. Golang (he/him) for Salesforce Engineering

Jun 7 '21

Subtesting, skipping, and cleanup in the Go testing.T

#go #testing #codenewbie #tutorial

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jun 2 '21

Basics of first-class functions in Go

#go #functional #tutorial #codenewbie

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

May 22 '21

What you can get out of doing a side project, even if you don't finish

#career #motivation #devrel #codenewbie

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jan 25 '21

Get started screen reader testing with screen readers and the accessibility tree

#a11y #codenewbie #html #beginners

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Dec 29 '20

Making custom Jest assertion matchers in JavaScript and TypeScript

#typescript #codenewbie #javascript #testing

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Nov 28 '20

Using Dexie.js to write slick IndexedDB code

#javascript #codenewbie #webdev #indexeddb

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Oct 2 '20

A first look at Crystal as a Gopher

#crystal #ruby #go #codenewbie

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Aug 30 '20

How to use someone else's Vue component

#vue #javascript #tutorial #codenewbie

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Aug 22 '20

Going from .vue files to vue-cli

#codenewbie #vue #javascript #webpack

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Aug 22 '20

Going from plain Vue to .vue files

#codenewbie #vue #javascript #webpack

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

May 25 '20

Sorting in Go from JavaScript

#codenewbie #beginners #go #javascript

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

May 11 '20

Speakers, what are the biggest misconceptions you had about speaking before you started?

#discuss #codenewbie #career #devrel

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Apr 29 '20

Perfectionism as a content creator and what I do about it

#codenewbie #devrel #career #motivation

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Apr 20 '20

Build a web API client in Go, Part 3: Define our client

#go #codenewbie #webdev #tutorial

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Apr 20 '20

Build a web API client in Go, Part 2: Deserializing the data

#go #codenewbie #webdev #tutorial

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Apr 2 '20

Build your first Chrome extension with chrome.tabs

#javascript #codenewbie #webdev #tutorial

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Mar 15 '20

What's the best pictoral/realistic-example documentation you've seen for a code library?

#discuss #codenewbie #devrel #watercooler

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Mar 1 '20

What is the io.Reader in Go?

#go #codenewbie

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Feb 8 '20

What smaller (< 1000 attendees) tech conferences are your favorites?

#discuss #career #codenewbie #devrel

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jan 27 '20

How I gave my first tech meetup talk 🎤

#career #motivation #devrel #codenewbie

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jan 25 '20

You timetravel to when you were a kid, and past-you wants to learn to code. How would present-you teach them?

#discuss #codenewbie #motivation #teaching

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Oct 19 '19

What are your favorite tricks, techniques, and apps for starting to learn an area of tech you’re completely new to?

#discuss #codenewbie #beginners

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Sep 24 '19

Four things in coding careers I wish I knew starting my CS major

#career #codenewbie #beginners #motivation

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jul 20 '19

A closer look at Go's append function

#go #tutorial #beginners #codenewbie

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jun 17 '19

Using promises in IndexedDB

#javascript #frontend #testing #database

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jun 16 '19

How do you balance your side-coding time between learning new things and building with that you already know?

#discuss #career #productivity #learning

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jun 12 '19

Gophers, what parts of Go did you find/are you finding challenging to learn?

#discuss #go #beginners

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jun 10 '19

How do you balance side project coding with your job during the workweek?

#discuss

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jun 9 '19

What kinds of coding outside your "main" area of expertise are you excited about lately?

#discuss

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jun 8 '19

Build a basic web app with IndexedDB

#javascript #tutorial #webdev #indexeddb

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Jun 5 '19

How do you balance coding on the stuff you know and trying out technologies & frameworks you're new to?

#discuss

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

May 29 '19

JavaScript Regular Expressions in Action - Make a Relative Time Parser

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #node

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

May 14 '19

Testing your IndexedDB code with Jest

#javascript #indexeddb #tutorial #testing

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Apr 18 '19

Tales of a #SurfaceGopher: Understanding JavaScript Events

#javascript #frontend #tutorial #surfacegopher

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&y H. Golang (he/him)

Apr 18 '19

webpack: From 0 to Automated Testing

#frontend #webpack #javascript #tutorial

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