Before you know about f-strings in Python, they can look a little weird.

print(f"Hello world, my name is {name}.")

It sort of looks like a typo or something. What is that f? Is it even supposed to be there?

Well, in Python, it’s supposed to be there, alright.

The above…

If formatting your Go code is a big pain point, then you’ll definitely be interested in leveraging this tool called gofmt.

gofmt is used by a whopping 70% of packages in the wild according to a survey by go.dev. …

When you’re writing Golang code — tests, specifically for this article — you’ll want to mostly avoid the use of the panic() function. It’s a good rule of thumb that is backed by a particularly good Golang Style Guide by Uber.

For tests, you may want to check for an…

The AWS documentation for “Security groups for your VPC” says that “A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic.”

This is a good way to think about it, and it’s important to note that a security group can specify allow or…

There’s a great Go style guide by Uber that goes all into the Do’s and Don’ts of writing Golang code at the company, and it can be a useful resource when you and/or your team is writing Go as well.

One of those in particular that I think is helpful…

If you ever have had to use an initial in a variable name — we’re looking at you, HTTP — then this post may be of interest to you.

In Golang, there are certain conventions to writing more “Effective Go”, as Golang puts it in their documentation.

In a supplement…

This is a little specific, but let’s say you want to force push a Git tag to a remote repository.

This could arise out of you having a situation where a tag already exists remotely, but you want to update it without deleting it.

That’s right: one way to replace…

There’s a really good style guide to Go by Uber — yes, the ride-sharing, food-delivering app — that is a fantastic resource for conventions in the language that are followed at the company. …