Didn’t get into GSoC. It stings, but it changes nothing.
Kept moving, continued the Go backend course. Added comments to the social API with SQL JOIN queries, wrote foreign key migrations the course skipped, learned Go’s init() function for package-level initialization, and built out error handling patterns (internalServerError, badRequest, notFound) that mirror what I’ve done in Express but with Go’s explicit style.
Also shot cinematic B-roll of the workspace. Sometimes the grind looks better on camera than it feels in the moment.
Four deployed projects. A second language in progress. The work continues regardless.