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🎉 My latest course - Building HTTP Clients in #golang - is now live! Learn: ✅ To build and structure HTTP clients for your APIs ✅ To build a solid suite of tests ✅ To incorporate the option function parameter pattern for customisation! {Link - tutorialedge.net/courses/go-htt…}

Another mountain adventure video - Schiehallion (with the Hallions) | Munro bagging | 4K Drone Footage youtu.be/cljnTrLGZkA Let me know what you think!

@antrix Thanks Deepak!!

@Elliot_F Congrats!

Yesterday I asked my best friend a very important question ❤️

@callanbeck Thanks Allan! Hope you are keeping well!

@Elliot_F Congratulations to you both!

@MattJamesBoyle “Will you be my partner in crime” - I’m planning a bank heist to make sure we’ve got enough for the wedding! (And thank you!)

@Elliot_F Are you going to share what question you asked? Was it about whether she used VIM? (Also congratulations! )

The writing streak continues! My latest article on "Crafting the Perfect Pull Request" - is now live on the site! Check it out and let me know what you think! {Link - tutorialedge.net/tips/crafting-…}

Finally had the chance to upgrade my graphics card and make my desktop capable of running the latest games 👌

Quite a few comments on the socials about this - it's funny how polarizing the concept of aliasing is. Some people love it, some people think "it's the worst thing ever".

It also feels good to have that freedom to really dive into anything I'd like to talk about, most of the time, it will be Go, but I do want to start branching out into general software engineering topics a little more such as the one above.

I'm currently on an 8-day streak of doing random little odd-jobs and writing bits for my site after spending a long time away. It feels good to feel that spark return and I want to start writing again, although I'm trying to limit myself to avoid burnout... again...

Adding a new 'tips' section to my site, where I can throw random articles I've wanted to write about for ages onto my site without having to worry about classifications... The first article - 'Aliasing your Git Commands for Maximum Productivity' tutorialedge.net/tips/aliasing-…

👀 My latest article (and also the first in a long time) is now live on the site! Covering the new iterators syntax in Go! Let me know what you think! tutorialedge.net/golang/go-123-…

@t_prei It’s pretty interesting how it works under the hood - this blog post go.dev/wiki/Rangefunc… - gives an overview on things like why limits were placed on the number of parameters and how these iterators effectively get compiled to.

@Elliot_F interesting I like this but the syntax isn't straightforward like go usually is why do iterators have to return bool and how does range interact with such return value? the parameters itself (int, something) I assume comes from the range variable

Latest Mountain Adventure Video is live! Definitely a bit of a tangent from my Go videos, but I’m loving spending more time in the Scottish Highlands with my partner Donna! youtu.be/qQpDHJ73b-8

Excellent blog post tailscale.com/blog/new-inter…

Most of what we do is never seen 🤔

@abdullahgarcia @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R My war with the slugs isn’t going the way I need it to for me to become a good gardener

@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R @Elliot_F

guideHowToBecomeGardener reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

@TFGalfinite That’s fine, but joking and making light about such a serious situation is just awful. You can hold these views whilst remaining empathetic about the lives being lost in an active warzone

@Elliot_F We are not the superheroes of the world. Every vountry has the duty to defend itself and not be maintained.

American politics is a farce. I genuinely don’t understand how folks can support Trump and his family given how vile they are…