Announcing GoReleaser v1.12 — the more-than-a-hundred commits release
The previous release had ~100 commits, and this one has 149 since previous feature release!
A complete guide to working with Cookies in Go
In this post we're going to run through how to use cookies in your Go web application to persist data between HTTP requests for a specific client. We'll start simple, and slowly build up a working application which covers the following topics: Basic reading and writing of cook...
Basic Go tooling for generics
Continuing the recent theme of blog posts about Go tooling, this post will briefly discuss how analysis tools interact with one of Go's newest features - generics. As usual, this post provides a motivating example and discusses a couple of approaches to writing a tool. The full c...
The C <code>free()</code> API gives libraries and functions useful freedom
Creating a tag and releasing from a GitHub Action, with GoReleaser
Most people run GoReleaser by creating a tag locally, pushing it, and letting their CI takes care of the matter.
C's <code>malloc()</code> and <code>free()</code> APIs are reasonable APIs for C
Parent links in Go ASTs
A common question that comes up when writing AST-based tooling in Go is "how do I find a node's parent?", or more generally, "what are all the ancestors of a given node?" Go's AST package does not come with parent links out of the box; this is a common choice...
Go 1.19 added an <code>atomic.Pointer</code> type that's a generic type
Gotcha: testable examples in Go need an `output` comment
One thing I really like about building libraries in Go is that you can create testable examples as a first-class citizen of the testing framework. This allows writing example code in the repository in a way that can make sure that expected use cases are always valid and do not br...
Announcing GoReleaser v1.11 — the hundred commits release
This release took a while, for all the good reasons: a ton of new features and bug fixes for your delight!