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Go: Sometimes an ORM is a Bit Much

When you need it, an ORM is great, but sometimes the effort it requires to achieve its magic is painful. For example, if you have an…

2 min readJul 5, 2022

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Go: Sometimes an ORM is a Bit Much

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Level Up Coding

Go Panic and Recovery: Meet the Edge Case

Idiomatic Go generally handles error cases with the pattern:

2 min readJul 3, 2022

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Go Panic and Recovery: Meet the Edge Case

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Towards Dev

Go Generics: Adopting a Couple of Known Patterns

As I’ve worked more and wore with Go generics pursuing cleaner code I’ve tested known patterns from other sources to see how they would…

2 min readJun 28, 2022

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Go Generics: Adopting a Couple of Known Patterns

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Working Around a Limitation of Go Generics

Go has always had some challenges regarding polymorphism. Its type system and naming rules just made some things difficult. For example…

2 min readJun 20, 2022

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Working Around a Limitation of Go Generics

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A Couple of Interesting Go Syntax Nuances

I’m a bit jaded with regards to programming languages, so I enjoy finding interesting nuances in them. Here a couple from Go.

1 min readJun 14, 2022

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A Couple of Interesting Go Syntax Nuances

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Geek Culture

Go Generics and Polymorphism, an Idiomatic Wake-up Call

I’ve always felt that the WET nature of Go led to a lot of subpar code. One area this really stands out is polymorphism. Go supports…

2 min readMay 22, 2022

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Go Generics and Polymorphism, an Idiomatic Wake-up Call

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Level Up Coding

Go: When To Adopt 1.18 and Generics

I've been eagerly awaiting generics in Go, so I’ve been working with 1.18 since it was only available in the playground and betas. It’s…

2 min readMay 14, 2022

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Go: When To Adopt 1.18 and Generics

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Level Up Coding

Go: Function Names and Generics

With Go, you immediately learn that function signatures don’t include type information. So, unlike many languages, you can’t have:

3 min readApr 29, 2022

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Go: Function Names and Generics

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API Pagination

API results pagination is a bit of a trigger issue for me. It’s such an easy concept to conceptualize but is literally an exercise in edge…

2 min readFeb 22, 2022

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API Pagination

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Go Generics: Holistic Thoughts on Performance

There have been lots of discussions on the performance implications of generics in Go, around both specific scenarios and abstractly, let’s…

2 min readJan 23, 2022

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Go Generics: Holistic Thoughts on Performance

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nwillc

Graybeard code monkey, started on an Apple IIe, got a CS degree in the 80’s, and coded my way through C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin — and now Go.

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