I run into this issue a lot so I wanted to document how I handle it for others who are experiencing the same issue. Let’s imagine you install this new package in Atom like GitHub flavored Markdown and it enables a snippet that you don’t like. In my case it was the code snippet which expands into the triple tildes (```) used for code samples in a markdown file. The first thing you want to do is figure out what source the snippet was introduced under.

Sometimes you can't help but call a function that might panic. Rather than letting it blow up your code, we learn how to use a deferred function and named return variables in order to capture the result as a standard Go error.

In over a decade of driving, moving, and everything in between I have never needed a heavy duty truck like a Ford F-350, so clearly they aren’t useful and Ford should stop making them, right? Oh construction workers might complain, but they could just use dump trucks to haul their heavy loads. And farmers might have issues, but they have tractors which could suffice. So what is the big deal? Let’s stop making those trucks!

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Learn how to properly secure cookies from tampering, theft, XSS, CSRF, and more in Go.

In Java, it is pretty common to see libraries that use method chaining (aka the builder pattern) to construct resources. For example, we might construct a user by doing something like: User user = new User.Builder() .name("Michael Scott") .email("michael@dundermifflin.com") .role("manager") .nickname("Best Boss") .build(); Builders are handy for a variety of reasons, but in the example above we are using a builder in order to define a subset of our User attributes before constructing the user object.