[ENHANCEMENTS] enable CodeQL Scanning (part of GitHub advanced security)

[AnthonyMichaelTDM]

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Custom linting workflows could be created as well. I make a lot of these kinds of things for my rust projects, not sure how it translates to go, but I could take a crack at it.

[AnthonyMichaelTDM]

I think a proper CI suite in general would be a very good idea

[AnthonyMichaelTDM]

#752 doesn't exactly do this, but it does start that "CI suite" I mentioned