clean up ci, use go 1.24, apply best practices for ci and general clean up

[cpanato]

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 71.46371% with 232 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 81.23%. Comparing base (d5d4efc) to head (7da4249).

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
tools/generator.go	24.52%	39 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
pkg/api/zz_ztest_foosubjectbarpredicate_1_2_3.go	8.33%	11 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/v990/docs.go	0.00%	3 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/bindings.go	80.00%	2 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/zz_artifactdeleted_0_1_0.go	83.33%	2 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/zz_artifactdownloaded_0_1_0.go	83.33%	2 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/zz_artifactpackaged_0_1_1.go	50.00%	2 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/zz_artifactpackaged_0_2_0.go	83.33%	2 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/zz_artifactpublished_0_1_1.go	50.00%	2 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/zz_artifactpublished_0_2_0.go	83.33%	2 Missing ⚠️
... and 84 more

Additional details and impacted files

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##             main     #106      +/-   ##
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- Coverage   82.94%   81.23%   -1.71%     
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  Files         101      101              
  Lines        8435     9143     +708     
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+ Hits         6996     7427     +431     
- Misses       1209     1486     +277     
  Partials      230      230              

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[cpanato]

closing this in favor of #107

not sure if we want all the variables/functions rename
cc @afrittoli