What are the best Go books in 2026?
What are the best Go books this year? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go books you should absolutely buy and read right now, whether you’re a beginner or expert Gopher.
Rust vs Go in 2026
Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
LIVE from GitHub Universe: Inside the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
I had a chat with Greg Cochran (GitHub), Christian Grobmeier (log4j), Michael Geers (evcc), and Camila Maia (ScanAPI) about the GitHub Secure OpenSource Fund. It was recorded at the last day of GitHub Universe 2025.
A Go question: how do you test <code>select</code> based code?
Summary of reading: October - December 2025
"The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution" by Francis Fukuyama - while reading this book it occurred to me that domains of study like political sciense must be incredibly difficult and frustrating. Imagine trying to match a model ont...
The SSA Phase
In the previous post , we explored the IR—the compiler’s working format where devirtualization, inlining, and escape analysis happen. The IR optimizes your code at a high level, making smart decisions about which functions to inline and where values should live—on the h...
Books I Read in 2025
Books I read in 2025, in no particular order. Permutation City - Greg Egan Was recommended to me by Alex Matrosov. Mind-bending exploration of consciousness, reality, and virtual worlds. Dense but rewarding.
That mockingbird won't sing: a mock API server in Rust
Faking it till you make it isn’t always the best strategy in life, but it can be a useful one in software engineering. Here’s an easy way to create a local HTTP server for testing Rust API clients.
How to Know If your Software Is Overcomplicated or Oversimplified?
Quick takeaways Complexity comes from two extremes - projects fail both when they’re overcomplicated with unnecessary patterns and when they’re oversimplified for a complex domain Essential vs accidental complexity - essential complexity comes from the domain itself...
Shooting myself in the foot with Git by accident