“We follow the Codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.” - Dalinar, The Way Of Kings

Interesting links for the week

Instead of sending a bunch of random links your way, these are all things I’ve read or seen and found interesting and relevant enough to share!

• The Secret About Big Software Companies

• Optimizing in-process gRPC with Go 1.23 Iterators and Coroutines

• You Don’t Need To Pay for the OpenAI API During Development

Something that sparked my curiosity

In all honesty, this week wasn’t very “tech” heavy for me. I spent most of it reading this high fantasy novel called The Way of Kings. It’s a slightly longer read, but I highly highly recommend checking it out if you’re even remotely interested in the fantasy genre or are just looking to get out of a reading slump.

Inspired by finishing reading that book, I spent some time improving the HTML template for my website where I store my favorite quotes: https://quotes.arsh.wtf/

All this is implemented using Hugo and Decap CMS! (Let me know if you’d like a guide on how to do it.)

Golang puzzle of the week

You are a young Jedi Padawan tasked with helping the Jedi Council organize a list of planets in the galaxy. The Council wants you to write a Go program to filter out planets that are under the control of the Dark Side and calculate the total population of the remaining planets.

Here’s your starter code:

package main

import "fmt"

// Planet represents a planet in the galaxy
type Planet struct {
    Name                 string
    Population           int
    UnderDarkSideControl bool
}

func main() {
    // List of planets
    planets := []Planet{
        {Name: "Tatooine", Population: 200000, UnderDarkSideControl: true},
        {Name: "Alderaan", Population: 2000000, UnderDarkSideControl: false},
        {Name: "Coruscant", Population: 1000000000, UnderDarkSideControl: false},
        {Name: "Dathomir", Population: 50000, UnderDarkSideControl: true},
        {Name: "Naboo", Population: 4500000, UnderDarkSideControl: false},
    }

    // TODO: Filter out planets under Dark Side control
    // TODO: Calculate the total population of the remaining planets
    // TODO: Print the names of the safe planets and the total population
}

This is what your output should look like:

Safe Planets: [Alderaan Coruscant Naboo]
Total Population: 1,004,500,000

You can write solutions to this in the Go Playground and share the link with me on LinkedIn to get a shoutout in next week’s newsletter!

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