At work, a common mistake I notice when reviewing candidates’ home assignments is how they
wire goroutines to channels and then return early.
The pattern usually looks like this:
start a few goroutines
each goroutine sends a result to its own unbuffered channel
in the main...
Prevent goroutine leaks caused by early returns with unbuffered channels. Learn buffering, draining, errgroup patterns, and goleak testing.
The tools of linear algebra are extremely useful when working in
Euclidean space (e.g. \mathbb{R}^3). Wouldn’t it be great if we
could apply these tools to additional mathematical constructs, such as
functions and sequences? Hilbert space allows us to do exactly this -
apply li...
We’ve all been there. You’re working on a project, making commits, and suddenly realize you’ve been committing .DS_Store files, node_modules, IDE configuration files, or other junk that shouldn’t be in your repository. Then comes the embarrassing cleanup:...
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
The post Go 1.25.1-1 and 1.24.7-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
Recently I ditched my AWS account and moved my personal small projects to a Hetzner VPS, what a nice feeling tinkering with your own server again! As a part of this process I also had to change how I deploy this blog, so I thought I would share my setup in case anyone else is int...
This version introduces the new version of the Docker integration,
Docker image attestation,
Makeself packaging support,
Go 1.25,
and much more!
#568 — September 3, 2025
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😎 A-go-ha! Gopher Hawaiian Shirt Patterns — Humor me for this item in the last gasps of summer! In 2023, Russ Cox worked with Renee French (the creator of the Go gopher mas...
Unlike pytest or JUnit, Go’s standard testing framework doesn’t give you as many knobs for
tuning the lifecycle of your tests.
By lifecycle I mean the usual setup and teardown hooks or fixtures that are common in other
languages. I think this is a good thing because y...