Go

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.

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.

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

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.