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Tasks
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thewhitetulip / Tasks

Tasks

A simplistic todo list manager written in Go

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A simplistic todo list manager written in Go

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012342015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 20152015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 20162016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 2017

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Jan 20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC211
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Jul 20162016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20162016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20162016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20162016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Nov 20162016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Dec 20162016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jan 20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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Mar 20172017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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thewhitetulip·Feb 15, 2017
Why naive? I was a beginner 3yrs ago in web development and Go. I wanted to learn how to build a webapp (I didn't and still don't know enough JS), I didn't get lost in the big maze of angular, react. I ignored the complicated stuff, I learned how to write a webapp[1], that was using pure HTML, then I learned Go, then I wrote a webapp. I wrote a todo list manager [2] Then, after I was comfortable with everything did I start learning AJAX, I chose Vue.JS and I migrated the app I wrote in pure HTML to use Go [3] and wrote a guide about it [4]. I pissed a lot of people of VueJS project when I raised this [5] issue, yes, in hindsight I do realize that I was rude to them, but their documentation had a problem (and I had already said sorry if I was rude) I still don't know how to use websockets and what not, or how to write load balancers or dis
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tributed database, or web proxy or cache or other things to be done at scale, I choose to ignore them as of now, as I build my capability to understand or until I need of them. This is what I meant by that statement. >they'd pretty much freeze up You know, in 2010, I still remember the first C programming class (I had not understood a single word) I had in my college, I froze and for a minute questioned if I had made the right decision to enter computer science. The point is that newcomers need to know what they can ignore while they learn the basics, it is not possible to learn everything in one go. Nobody teaches you real life, it just happens, and as a newbie it is my responsibility to learn in the best way I can without getting overwhelmed, and no, it is not a disparaging statement! Also, this is why I started Multiversity[6], this is a YouTube channel which teaches by example. [1] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... [2] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks [3] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks-vue [4] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs/ [5] https://github.com/vuejs/vuejs.org/issues/565 [6] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/multiversity
In Google’s not-so-secret new OS
thewhitetulip·Feb 5, 2017
I agree with you, I didn't know how to build a webapp, two years ago, I learned the basics and implemented a fully working webapp in Go along with the REST client, all without having to buy a single book, the docs are amazing, the community is amazing and the language made me build things fast, I love GOPATH, I love gofmt. Apart from the tooling, I felt as if I have been writing Go since a long time, even though I was just a newbie, my app: http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/ I also wrote a tutorial for newcomers like me: http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook...
In The State of Go
thewhitetulip·Jan 13, 2017
> with minimal understanding of what they're really doing In my opinion, this is very dangerous. It is always better to understand the inner workings and then write an app, otherwise you just feel you have accomplished something when, in reality, it was just the framework you used and you didn't learn. I am saying this out of experience, when I used to use Django, I didn't understand the difference between GET vs POST. Still, I built a small note taking app, I didn't understand how cookies worked and until I wrote this: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks, I didn't know that the cookie details were read and sent to the sever in each request. Frameworks are powerful in cases when you want new comers to get started quickly, but in my opinion that has to be after the new comers are familiar with webdev, so they know what the underlying te
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ch are and how they work. Plus, frameworks need to be chosen with care, because you are basically bound to the framework you choose. Personally, I like to write apps without a framework by using various toolkits, I never felt the necessity to use any framework, because they don't provide me with any distinct feature which I can't replicate with little additional code using the stdlib and supporting toolkits like gorilla. From my experience building the Tasks application, I wrote an introductory e-book which teaches building apps with example, so no more magic! I didn't find a resource which taught how to write web apps using an example, thus wrote one. https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... and on multiple requests, recorded a screencast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL41psiCma00wgiTKkAZwJ...
In Buffalo – MVC Web Framework for Go
thewhitetulip·Dec 26, 2016
I have written a webapp in Go to sort photos, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/picsort We had gone for a group outing, had million photos, less than 10 people in each photo, so didn't make sense to give the same photos to everyone, so wrote a basic app which would let me tag people and created eachone's folder and copied photo in it. Starting a side project shouldn't be done by the goal of starting a side project, look around you, is there a manual process which you wish there would be a better way to do? sorting photos was one such way and I wrote an app for it. I did the same for a todo list manager, didn't have internet or any good todo list manager, so I wrote one and learned the Go language and the Vue.JS framework https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks
In Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?
thewhitetulip·Nov 26, 2016
I've written an introductory book on Go http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook, it taught hoe to write a webapp in Go without using a framework. Earlier, it taught basic html, now I am rewriting the Tasks app, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/, to use the front end framework http://vuejs.org, using the learning of my experiment, I'm putting together anther series of tutorials, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs. Thid is because I wanted an easy to understand tutorial which doesn't expect the user to have anything more than basic html/css/js knowledge. edit: links
In Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?
thewhitetulip·Nov 26, 2016
Yes, /r/golang is way more friendlier than go-nuts. I say this by proof. 1. One year ago I started learning Go. It was difficult to understand it, I read a lot of books and stuff. I started working on http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks, Later, I realised that there isn't a free resource to teach what I learned, so I tried to share my knowledge by creating this, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook.... The first post I made was to /r/golang: I got immensely +ve feedback, suggestions etc. The second post I made was that google group, I was told "The language is called Go and not Golang" and the condensed feedback from the elites was (after someone rallied behind me saying that give real feedback and this is being jerk and blah blah) that "it might be the case that suraj wrote a good book but people won't take it s
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eriously until the language name is corectly used" Who cares about the title of the book? I certainly don't. I have read astaxie's book, codegansta's book, both had golang in their title. Their content was amazing. I loved them, didn't care about the title The links are below As another instance, I wanted help in AJAX one year ago, I asked /r/golang, I got two examples in half hour, one with plain JS another with jquery. Do you really think that if /r/golang was so "toxic" and "scum" as they call it on the go-nuts mailing list (a glaring violation of the CoC shoved down our throats) that there would be a consensus among /r/golang to unequivocally say "if Go authors don't participate in /r/golang then they are welcome to step down?" I do not understand what they want to do, Guido created python, is he the mod of /r/python, does he care what authors name their book? "oh the language is Python with a capital P", no, he does what he does and let's the community handle the community. my exp with /r/golang https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5dkobc/sample_webap... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/56mgxb/learn_how_to... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/50ih0s/whats_up_wit... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4zyjye/network_prog... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4kbup2/can_webapps_... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4jxtdg/building_an_... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4jaiun/updated_my_t... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4ihjk7/added_sessio... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/46vb6x/want_to_disc... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/45uqpw/updated_my_t... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/439asd/simple_comma... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/3zle8c/i_am_writing... The fact that I do not have a single (+ve) link on go-nuts speaks volumes about which forum is toxic. Just read this thread which I started on go-nuts https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/F4LJwyYZcX... And tell me later which community is helpful.
In Deleting the golang subreddit
thewhitetulip·Nov 15, 2016
>do you accurately comment the code you write for fun Mostly, yes. But not when I am learning stuff, for eg, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks is a small app I built, there are next to no comments there because I was learning the language and thus didn't write much comments there. I understand docs are pain to maintain, but a good FOSS project which is coding related (like a code library) is an amalgamation of the code AND the docs. The first preference goes to the lib with a great documentation. >not as rewarding as aligning correct lines of codes Yes, but when we look at the reward incorrectly! Yes, nobody will hail your contribution, but the fact that the project will be hailed because of the docs is not thought about mostly. >but chances are they will ask trivial question that do not concern the project This might not be a gross m
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isrepresentation, but yes, sometimes there will be audience who doesn't fit in your project's audience, but what about the audience who fits? I recently started learning a front end framework, I am totally new to a front end framework, I do not like frameworks, I learned and wrote a book on Go without using framework (https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...). The docs are awesome of the project, I mean it. They teach the basics of the framework but _not_ how to use it in an actual project. Yes, if I know how to bind a variable via the docs it is great, but I do not know how to build a single page app just by reading how to bind a variable. It is a pre-requisite though. For a framework which wants to be the top framework, I feel that there needs to be docs not just about the APIs but also about how to use it in a real project. P.S: In the past, while commenting partially negatively about something, a person had taken huge efforts to crawl back on my HN/reddit comment history and calling out the names, I am intentionally leaving the name out of the comment; This is a general thing across all projects, not just the one I am complaining about.
In Ask HN: Why are FOSS projects beginner unfriendly?
thewhitetulip·Oct 3, 2016
https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... This is a simple, example based introductory book for teaching newbies how to write webapps in Go. I have added the tags to the issue. http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/ This is a simplistic todo list manager written in Go. Tags have been added to the issues. Tasks is MIT licensed and the book is CC licensed Any and all help is appreciated, feel free to reach me via email any time, I would respond as soon as possible. Email is in my github page.
In Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
thewhitetulip·Aug 16, 2016
I agree on the point where it doesn't work well with mix languages. we can, however use `go get` rather than manually doing a git clone. I understand it'd be a pain to have Go setup, but once it is setup, it is great, When I write Go programs I do `$ cd /go/src/github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks` `$ Tasks go build -o tasks` `$ Tasks ./tasks`
In Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7

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