I went to GopherCon this year and did my first capture the flag. It was about as much fun as I've had at a conference, and I will definitely do it again next year. I've been mulling another challenge since then, and today I took the time to put it together. I called it "gopher the flag", but after seeing the code, "goto the flag" would have been a better name....

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Wrapping up the slog series.

Refactoring our slog handler to be more efficient.

Continuing the introduction to Go's log/slog by writing a slog.Handler that outputs human-readable logs.

An introduction to Go's log/slog package. Writing a wrapper for a slog.Handler that we can use in GitHub Actions.