https://theithollow.com/tags/covid/ Recent content in Covid on The IT Hollow Hugo en-us Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:53:26 +0000 https://theithollow.com/2020/03/22/hello-world-covid-19-and-golang/ Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:53:26 +0000 https://theithollow.com/2020/03/22/hello-world-covid-19-and-golang/ <p>There is a worldwide pandemic going on right now and it has disrupted practically everything. Many people are worried not only about their health and families health, but also their job situations. I feel incredibly fortunate that my employer seems intent on continuing to work through this situation and that I am already a remote worker most of the time.</p> <p>My team was asked to of course take care of our families, but also to take this opportunity to learn something new. I took this respite from normal activities to try to learn how to do some basic Golang (Go) programming. I have a hard time focusing on a project sometimes when there are no specific goals in mind, so my &ldquo;Hello World&rdquo; attempt at programming in Golang was to grab the latest COVID-19 statistics and post them to slack once per day.</p>