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In this blog post, I will show that contributing to Go language repositories is as simple as contributing to any other open-source repo. This will be a step-by-step guide on how to contribute to Go language repositories. For the example, I will use the main Go repo go.googlesource.com/go. What we will contribute I subscribed to Boldly Go: Daily for a year and recently got the following email: Email from the Boldly Go Subscription [Read More]

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 a git config user.email <email@example.com> for each project repository, this might 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”. Situation All my projects, both work and non-work, are located under the the ~/src/ directory. [Read More]

Situation On an interview people judge developers by their GitHub. Recently, I saw the tweet with picture showing GitHub contribution with one commit activity and the caption: “Please don’t apply for a Senior dev position if your GitHub looks like this…” Tweet Senior GitHub In this blog post, I will answer the question of how to enrich GitHub statistics to improve your job prospects. There are a lot of tools to fake GitHub history: 1, 2, 3. [Read More]