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Dominic St-Pierre
15 minutes news, tips, and tricks on the Go programming language.
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Feb 16, 2024 • 20min
028: To TDD or not... or when
Quick solo episode on TDD and when I experienced it was used best and when I personally not use it but use an approach of writing a bit of code, than tests, thant another bit of code, etc.Buying my courses is the way to support this show, here's a direct discount for listeners.

Feb 5, 2024 • 39min
027: Debugging in Go with Matt Boyle
I chatted with Matt Boyle about debugging Go code. Matt is creating a course about this topic and discussing debugging as a tool you may add to your toolbelt.LinksThe Ultimate Guide to Debugging With GoDomain-Driven Design with GolangMatt on Twitter aka XGoland Insiders (Go Twitter community)As always, if you'd like to support this podcast the best way is to purchase my courses / talk about them. I have 2 courses on Go and here's a direct discount for podcast listeners.

Jan 25, 2024 • 21min
026: We can do better with interviews and onboarding
I believe we can do better regarding software engineer interviews and this entire process (also including onboarding). I think companies that will be mediocre at those two aspects will have a hard time with younger programmers, which I fully support.

Jan 17, 2024 • 17min
025: Iterators are coming to Go
Iterators are going to be useful to process large amount of data without having to load an entire slice or maps in memory but instead create iterators that can be used from a for item := range myIterators().If you'd like to support this show and/or are interested in Go courses I have, here's a direct discount link specially for listeners of this show.

Jan 10, 2024 • 19min
024: Do you understand this weird production behavior?
Something absurd happened in 2024 for one of my consulting client's production web application, and this code for a time. The time zero value is behaving differently than it has been since 2018. Date has a value: No date, zero valueI launched my new course Build a Google Analytics in Go, if you're interested and/or want to support this show that's how to do it.

Jan 3, 2024 • 19min
023: Reaction to reddit post on null pointer error in Go
I react to the post on the Go subreddit of last week talking about a null pointer error occuring in production for a Go program.This is the YouTube video I made.If you'd want to support this podcast, I have Go courses available for purchase here, I just launch my latest course Build a Google Analytics in Go with a 50% discount for listener of this show.

Dec 19, 2023 • 25min
022: What to answer to "Why Go?"
Typical reasons to use Go might sounds exciting for us used to Go, but might not be as attractive for people that haven't experienced Go yet and might not realize they have some small heritants that Go fixes/improves.I've pre-launched my new course call Build a Google Analytics in Go, as listener to this podcast you're getting a 50% off during pre-sale, the course is due to launch before the end of December.If you want to support this show, purchasing the course is the best way, also talking about it ;).

Dec 6, 2023 • 20min
021: Why I had to work 30h straight in 2002
Things were very different when I started as a junior developer. This is a story of an out of the ordinary day where worked from ~9h am to 11am (the next day), the two of us that were in charge of everything at a small financial company.This one has nothing to do with Go, but I thought it was worth telling as a story.I'm soon to launch (pre-launch) my next course Build a Google Analytics in Go. If you're interested make sure to sign-up for the newsletter on my store. https://store.dominicstpierre.com/

Nov 23, 2023 • 16min
020: Discipline is required to build long-live software
As we're building more and more of distributed systems I believe that one trait / culture successful team will require is discipline. Personal opinion, we tend to complicate our lives in the last decade compare to what things were before. But without an extra attention to some details, it will be a nightmare to maintain systems in the long run.As always, if you'd like to support the show the best way is to purchase my course. Sharing it also very much appreciated.

Jul 14, 2023 • 14min
019: Dependencies maintenance in Go
I talk about dependencies management in Go. How to keep your dependencies up-to-date and how to check if there's any updates available. What to do when a package change their major version.List all packages and latest versions:$ go list -m -u allUpdate all packages to their latest minor versions:$ go get -u ./...If you'd like to support this podcast consider buying a copy of my course Build SaaS apps in Go.


