Golang productivity hacks part 4: built-in tools Intro Following my third post about automatically generating unit tests, this post will be about some of the built-in tools of the golang language. Go has many tools to help productivity and as you will see, most of them are command line (CLI) tools…

Intro Following my second post of this productivity series about IDE plugins, we will now dive into unit testing. Unit testing is very important in modern software, for at least 2 reasons: Good unit tests prevent (many) regressions It assures you that the code you wrote has the wanted behavior In…

Intro My last blog post was the first of my productivity hacks series, where we learn to automatically generate Golang structure from JSON data. Here is the link: Golang productivity hacks Part 1: generating data structures In this new post, we will go through some of my favorite plugins on my…

Intro Sometimes when writing software, having the proper tools and practices can make a big difference in the actual amount of work you get done. This post will be the first of a series about golang tips and hacks for greater productivity. Generating data structures from JSON My first tip is simple yet very efficient, is…

Intro A few weeks ago a critical security flaw was found in a very popular library, Log4j. Log4j is a free java library widely used in software around the world. The truth is that in modern software development projects, it’s very rare not to use external dependencies, that are often free…

Intro In my post about Scanning Go Dependencies for Vulnerabilities, we learned that we can use a tool named Nancy to look for issues in the third-party libraries we use. Now, what about finding vulnerabilities in our own codebase? …

Intro This week has been the theatre of a zero-day exploit, a critical security flaw found in Log4j. Log4j is a free java library widely used in software around the world. The truth is that in modern software development projects, it's very rare not to use external dependencies, that are often…

Intro In modern software development, unit testing is a necessity for any serious programming project. One of the challenges when writing unit tests in Go is when our code interacts with files, websites, or any third-party service. Mockery is a library that helps us to deal with such problems. In this…

Git is a must-know tool for any modern developer and stepping up your skills can only help be more productive. So here are a few tips to upgrade your git skills. Efficient switching between branches Let say you are working between the main branch and the feature-12 branch. Now, let say you have some…