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💥 Using Go's select Statement

💥 Signals via Context

💥 Using Signals With Go

💥 Learning Go in 2025

💥 How the Gophers Are Made

💥 Building a Blog in Go: Metadata via Frontmatter

💥 Building a Blog in Go: Rendering Markdown as HTML

💥 Building a Blog in Go: Rendering Raw Markdown

💥 Building a Blog Exercise

💥 Does Go's range Copy a Slice Before Iterating Over It?

💥 Go's 1.22+ ServeMux vs Chi Router

💥 What Does the Tilde Mean in Go Generics

💥 Crash Course on Go Generics

💥 Crash Course on Go Interfaces

💥 Concurrency Patterns in Go: sync.WaitGroup

💥 Database Migrations in Go

💥 Testing API Libraries

💥 How to Parse JSON That Varies Between an Array or a Single Item With Go

💥 Creating a Live Reloader in Less than 200 Lines of Go Code

💥 Working From Home: Separating Your Personal and Work Life

💥 More Effective DDD with Interface Test Suites

💥 Moving Towards Domain Driven Design in Go

💥 Using MVC to Structure Go Web Applications

💥 Flat Application Structure in Go

💥 Why Cant We Settle on a Single Application Structure in Go

💥 TDD is Not for Me

💥 Testing is Not for Beginners

💥 When nil Isn't Equal to nil

💥 Interfaces Define Requirements

💥 Building Gophercises

💥 JSON APIs Are Just Web Applications

💥 Why Cant I Pass This Function as an Http Handler?!

💥 Gotham Go 2018

💥 Jon on the Go Time Podcast!

💥 Go Experience Report: Interfaces with Methods that Return Themselves

💥 Using the Service Object Pattern in Go

💥 Concatenating and Building Strings in Go 1.10+

💥 Exploring vgo

💥 When Should I Use One Liner if...else Statements in Go?

💥 The New Website is Live

💥 Disabling Specific Snippets (autocompletions) in Atom

💥 Using named return variables to capture panics in Go

💥 "I haven't needed X in 3 years" is a bad argument

💥 Building Caddy Server From Source

💥 Securing Cookies in Go

💥 Using functional options instead of method chaining in Go

💥 Subtle issues with ORMs and how to avoid them

💥 Generating data structures that need additional functions

💥 What is SQL injection and how do I avoid it in Go?

💥 Using code generation to survive without generics in Go

💥 Stacks - What they are, and how to implement them in Go

💥 Queues - What are they and how do I implement one in Go?

💥 Let's Learn Algorithms - Updated Format, MOAR VIDEOS!

💥 Representing a Binary Tree in Go Code

💥 Depth First Search (DFS) on a Binary Tree

💥 Trees are also Graphs

💥 What is a Graph?

💥 Beginners - stop limiting your projects to things that are "useful"

💥 Querying for multiple records with Go's sql package

💥 Show me your username and password requirements at login

💥 Querying for a single record using Go's database/sql package

💥 Updating and deleting PostgreSQL records using Go's sql package

💥 How to shuffle arrays and slices in Go

💥 How to determine if a JSON key has been set to null or not provided

💥 Pitfalls of context values and how to avoid or mitigate them in Go

💥 Why are slices sometimes altered when passed by value in Go?

💥 How to use slice capacity and length in Go

💥 Wrapping packages to isolate code responsibility

💥 Inserting records into a PostgreSQL database with Go's database/sql package

💥 Where have all the blog posts gone?

💥 Updating and Deleting records stored in a PostgreSQL table using SQL

💥 Creating Random Strings in Go

💥 Let's Learn Algorithms: Sorting a Custom User Type with Bubble Sort

💥 Let's Learn Algorithms: Binary Searching for Case Insensitive Strings

💥 Let's Learn Algorithms: Implementing Binary Search

💥 How do interfaces work in Go, and why do I keep seeing the empty interface (interface{})?

💥 Let's Learn Algorithms: An Introduction to Binary Search

💥 Let's Learn Algorithms: Sorting a list of strings in alphabetical order with bubble sort

💥 Let's Learn Algorithms: Reverse sorting a list of numbers with bubble sort

💥 Connecting to a PostgreSQL database with Go's database/sql package

💥 Why we import SQL drivers as the blank identifier ( _ ) in Go

💥 Querying for records stored in a PostgreSQL table using SQL

💥 Let's Learn Algorithms: Implementing Bubble Sort

💥 Let's Learn Algorithms: An Introduction to Bubble Sort

💥 Inserting records into a PostgreSQL database using SQL

💥 Creating PostgreSQL databases and tables with raw SQL

💥 How to install PostgreSQL 9.6 on Mac OS X (10.7 or later)

💥 How to install PostgreSQL 9.5 on Ubuntu 16.04

💥 Gotchas and Common Mistakes with Closures in Go

💥 5 Useful Ways to Use Closures in Go

💥 What is a Closure?

💥 How to test with Go

💥 Creating the V in MVC

💥 Using Functions Inside Go Templates

💥 6 Tips for Using Strings in Go

💥 Template Actions and Nested Templates in Go

💥 Cost of living adjusted salaries are terrible for remote employees

💥 An Intro to Templates in Go - Contextual Encoding

💥 Path Prefix Middleware in Go

💥 Why is this string a byte array and other info about strings in Go

💥 Add goimports to Sublime Text 3

💥 Controllers and Views in Go

💥 Rate Limiting API Calls in Go

💥 Revert Ctrl+E Shortcut in Sublime Text + Emmet

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Previously, Jon worked at several statups including co-founding EasyPost, a shipping API used by several fortune 500 companies. Prior to that Jon worked at Google, competed at world finals in programming competitions, and has been programming since he was a child.

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