Hiya! One of the nice features of Visual Studio Code is that it integrates linters very easily.

Unfortunately, checking a few different linters comes up with a slew of issues in this codebase. I've moved to golangci-lint because it's one of the few that supports Go modules.

Here's a snippet of the issues I'm seeing:

Some questions I have:

1. Should we resolve these? If so, what would be the best way to PR these changes?
2. Should we add the linter(s) to CI to prevent getting into the same scenario in the future?