apps-script-samples VS golang-docker

One of the things that stifles openness is noise. Sifting through our public repos, some are very obviously redundant and just distracting. So we started by archiving a whole bunch of them - over half, in fact. We wrote some Google Apps Script in a spreadsheet to import and analyze the state of all our public repos:

I am not a JS developer, but in some tech areas there are niches with relatively fewer developers competing for the same position.

I don't know if this is actually a niche, but since I don't see it mentioned frequently on HN, perhaps you could have a look at Google Apps Script [0], which is basically JS for automating and extending Google Docs (Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides), and integrating them into GCP. Tons of companies have whole departments living inside Google Docs, so I imagine they would pay for software making their lives easier. I would but I currently don't have the budget for it, so I am writing short scripts myself. Curiously, Bard and ChatGPT produce really bad Apps Scripts code, which would be to your advantage.

When I occasionally hire people, I do look at their repos to see how good they are in a specific language. Specifically, how easy to follow and idiomatic their code is, what the quality of their comments and documentation is, are there any tests, even if very rudimentary. I particularly enjoy original projects like home automation, custom keyboard firmware, an alternative Netflix UI, a ggplot extension, a basic Python wrapper for some overly-complicated API vs. your typical to-do app or yet another analysis of the Bike Sharing dataset. I don't expect all people to have public repos or FLOSS contributions because not everyone has the time for that. However, if you wanted to demonstrate skills in a technology you haven't used professionally, I think it is a good idea.

0. https://developers.google.com/apps-script

I have a function in Apps Script that returns the Document Position, and I currently have it set to be called every second. However, I'm concerned about potential limitations or quotas that I might reach by making such frequent function calls. I got the idea from their own samples.

Here is the documentation link to help you: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/

Before we get started with ChatGPT, you'll need to set up Google Apps Script. If you're not already familiar with Google Apps Script, you can get started with the documentation here.

Since a few years I had a Google Apps Script that prefixed some events in my calendar with an emoji. This helps me spot certain events or categories of events. This blogpost explains very well why I like to add emoji's to my calendar events.

From my current employer I discovered that you can get surprisingly high mileage with spreadsheets and a little bit of scripting.

My employer uses Google Sheets with app scripts [1].

It automatically reads emails, updates a bunch of spreadsheets, makes other API calls, creates entire report documents etc.

The initial setup might take a while though.

[1] https://developers.google.com/apps-script

I have completed https://grasshopper.app entirely with no prior knowledge of coding. It is very hands on easy to follow. There is more doing coding than reading and each question has a walkthrough available. It is by Google and directs you too Google's own coding platform when you finish. It covers the basics of coding, automation, HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Google's AppScript that work with apps like Google Drive and Sheets. Each course has a PDF certificate of completion. (Last I checked the app was bricked and suggested using the webpage until they figured out the bug with the new operating system.)

After installing the Docker Desktop, you need to have Golangand Cobra cli installed before building the CLI.

Visit the official Go website at golang.org and download the latest version for your OS.

With Go it is a bit different. We do not have exceptions, but we have panic and recover functions. Panics by themself are not control-flow statements, they are closer to Java Error type or PHP ErrorException type. They are used to stop execution of the program in case of critical errors that are not related to business flow of the program. In case of Go we can use panic to throw an error and recover to catch it, but we can catch it only in defer functions that are not linear execution code block and applies some limitations on top of it.

Before diving into Go programming, you need to set up the development environment. Go's official website (https://golang.org) provides installation binaries for all major operating systems. Once installed, you can confirm the installation by running a simple "Hello, World!" program.

Next, you need to install Golang, which is the programming language used for the accompanying Golang application. Visit the official Golang website at https://golang.org and follow the installation instructions specific to your operating system. Once installed, make sure the go command is accessible from the command line by adding the appropriate binary directory to your system's PATH.

To start in Go❤️ let's take a few steps back, let's start our whole trajectory knowing the official website of lang this is the official page golang.org, here we will find all the information we could know about Go and much more. Here we have the docs, packages, blog and our darling play.golang.org, language specs, download, Go tour and much more.

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