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Go 1.27.1-1 and 1.26.8-1 Microsoft builds now available
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.27.1-1 and 1.26.8-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
Goroutine Leak Profiles
Go 1.27 includes new goroutine leak profiles.
Stage One
This week, I checked into Stanford’s oncology department. I walked out of my doctor’s office having learned that I may have stage 1 cancer. “May” is an uncomfortable place to be. There is no certainty until surgeons remove parts of the tumor and pathology...
De-Googling: Replacing Google Search with Kagi
A few weeks ago my main Google account was blocked by Google without any reason provided or a way to reclaim it. At its scale, Google probably uses various automated signals and AI to ban accounts and by mistake can easily close yours. I was already slowly “de-googling&rdqu...
How big are factorials?
The other day, I found myself wondering how big 52! (52 factorial) is, and that led me to ponder how these could be estimated without a calculator or a computer. It turns out there’s some fairly interesting math behind being able to estimate the size (number of digits) of …
Generic methods land in Go 1.27
#615 — August 28, 2026 Read the Web Version 🗓️ If you missed us last week, good news… we're back! As expected, Go 1.27 landed last week, but there's plenty more to get into today :-)__Your editor, Peter Cooper Go Weekly ⭐...
Generic Methods
Go 1.27 adds generic methods—a highly desired language feature.
Welcome to the machine: emulating a CPU
A fun programming project for Go or Rust learners: help rescue a stranded spacecraft by writing an emulator for its simple CPU!
The Kronk SDK
In the previous article we took yzma apart and found a very disciplined bridge: purego finds the functions inside libllama.so, libffi makes the calls, and no C compiler is involved anywhere. What you get out the other end is llama.cpp’s API almost exactly as C sees it —...