Quick Takeaways High-quality code is mainly about keeping good iteration speed over time - can you add features without breaking what works? Not all code needs to be high quality - focus your efforts on the code that’s most important, changes often, or creates the most val...
#544 — March 5, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Faster Go Maps with Swiss Tables — One of Go’s newest features is a revamped map implementation powered by a new hash table algorithm called Swiss Table that boosts map oper...
Although this blogpost was originally published in 2018, the concepts and principles discussed remain crucial for building efficient and performant multithreaded applications in Go now in 2025 (Go 1.24.0). As the Go ecosystem continues to evolve, understanding how the Go schedule...
If an existing tool is not straightforward to use, a software developer's natural reflex is to write a tailor-made CLI. Akash Joshi wrapped OpenAI's Whisper model into an intuitive CLI for convenient transcript generation.
I remember when I was in school and didn’t have yet a PC at home (probably year ~2000), I would visit my Mom’s office to play some videogames on her work PC :) It was some Pentium and didn’t have many games in the beginning, but Minesweeper was always there as i...
The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going somewhere with this.
Go 1.24 improves map performance with a brand new map implementation
#543 — February 26, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Testing Concurrent Code with testing/synctest — Concurrency is one of Go’s natural strengths, but testing heavily concurrent programs can be tricky. Go 1.24 introduces a...
A live chat with Elton Minetto about learning Go, GoReleaser, and more, in preparation for Gophercon Latam 2025 (in Portuguese).