I use GitHub’s dark theme daily. Sometimes I see README images that are unreadable on the dark theme even though they look fine on the light theme. For example, the etcd repo logo:
In this article, I show how to fix this visibility issue using GitHub’s Markdown syntax.
[Read More]I accidentally discovered malicious programs in the Go ecosystem that impersonate legitimate tools such as the linter ldez/usetesting , the HCL editor go.mercari.io/hcledit , the official MailerSend Go SDK mailersend/mailersend-go , and many more. These programs are not very popular but are still used by some developers. By the time I wrote this article, I had reported the malicious repositories to GitHub support, and most of them have been deleted.
[Read More]In this post, I show that contributing to Go repositories is as simple as contributing to any other open-source repo. This is a step-by-step guide to contributing to Go repositories. As an example, I use the main Go repository go.googlesource.com/go .
[Read More]If you use an Apple Silicon (M1) Mac, you will hit an issue when downloading Go 1.15 or earlier via the
dl
tool.
Here is the solution:
$ GOARCH=amd64; go run golang.org/dl/go1.15@latest download
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.15@latest
$ go1.15 version
go version go1.15 darwin/amd64
I work simultaneously on different companies’ projects, open-source projects, and personal projects. I should therefore use the same username but distinct email addresses for each of them. Although we can set git config user.email <email@example.com> for each project repository, this can be a tedious manual task and perhaps unsuitable.
The Git config manual describes the use of configuration files to better manage such a task through “Conditional includes” .
[Read More]In this blog post, I will answer the question of how to enrich GitHub statistics to improve your job prospects by enriching your GitHub contribution graph.
[Read More]NIC.UA is a Ukrainian domain registrar that provides “.pp.ua” for free . This domain is often used by individuals or small organizations looking for a web presence but who don’t want to pay for a custom domain name.
Like in a typical repo, this blog has its first git commit:
git commit --allow-empty --message "Initial commit"