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String in Golang

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. In Golang, a string is implemented as a struct containing a data pointer (pointing to a read-only slice of bytes) and a length.

  2. Raw string literals, delimited by backticks (back quotes), are interpreted literally. They can contain line breaks, and backslashes have no special meaning.

Embed File in Golang Binary

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. My understanding is that embeded files are loaded into memory, which means that the Go app might consume large memory if you embed a large file.

  2. The "embed" package does not work with the Gophernotes kernel (for Jupyter/Lab notebooks).

Search Engine for Static Web Sites

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Below is a list of search engines which run on the client side.

tinysearch

Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm.

stork

Stork is a library …

Install Packages Using Homebrew on macOS and Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation

macOS

By default, Homebrew is installed to the location /opt/homebrew. You can add the command brew into $PATH by adding the following configuration into your shell configuration (e.g …