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Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Go programming language, not the Gopher Internet protocol. I wonder if there's a Gopher server written in Go yet...

I see a lot of these dismissive corrections when talking about Go and Gophers and just wondered how relevant the original gopher protocol was in your day to day? Like, when did you last request data using gopher?

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pinned tabs actually have their own icon: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ap...

Thanks. I'll have to go create an icon for this. So many custom icon formats :\ Edit: I believe I have an icon set here now. I might need to tweak it but it should work in the meantime.

I recently got turned onto RealFaviconGenerator.net after researching the various icon formats I might need to support and finding a nice in-depth stack overflow answer [1] from the author of that website. I would be surprised if it did NOT support pinned images.

[0] https://realfavicongenerator.net/

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4014823/does-a-favicon-h...

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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I'm definitely going to be doing this. Your other sites and courses look badass too. If I could afford your algorithms course I'd buy it immediately. I'll have to save up.

The "algorithms course" isn't really a course at this point but is just a series of blog posts and youtube videos. I want to do more with it eventually, but there are only so many hours in a day :( Anyway I hope you enjoy it!

I was mistaken. I meant to say, I'd buy the web development course you're offering. The algorithms material looks great too. Thanks for putting it out there!

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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I'm getting "Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here." in both Chrome and Firefox. What's up with that?

It is probably an extension of some sort.

I have heard this can happen with Privacy Badger, but I'm sure other extensions can cause the issue. I think it is a fairly common issue with embedded Vimeo videos, but I haven't had a chance to look at alternative options/settings and hosting videos myself comes with a whole other set of issues.

Just FYI I am not personally doing a bunch of tracking here. I don't even think I have Google Analytics setup on this domain. Instead it is a byproduct of Vimeo having at tracking cookie :(

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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This is fantastic. The exercises are non-trivial enough to be useful. One minor suggestion: if you can have the favicon set to your gopher, it can be great. Mine is a potentially narrow use case, but after logging in, I pinned this to a tab in safari, and the G throws me off a little.

Thanks! Can you possibly email me a screenshot so I can fix it? jon [at] calhoun.io

Sent. First world problem admittedly.

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "algorithms course" isn't really a course at this point but is just a series of blog posts and youtube videos. I want to do more with it eventually, but there are only so many hours in a day :( Anyway I hope you enjoy it!

I was mistaken. I meant to say, I'd buy the web development course you're offering. The algorithms material looks great too. Thanks for putting it out there!

Email me - jon@calhoun.io

I'll see if there is a way I can help you out :)

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