#579 — November 19, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly 🎂 Go Turns Sixteen Years Old — Go was open sourced sixteen years ago, and there’s much to be excited about in both the recent past and the near future. Austin gives a min...
In the previous posts , we explored the scanner—which converts source code into tokens—and the parser —which takes those tokens and builds an Abstract Syntax Tree. In future posts, I’ll cover the Intermediate Representation (IR)—how the compiler transforms the AST i...
If you’re using GitHub Actions in your projects, you should be pinning your actions to specific commit SHAs instead of using tags or branches.
Test Go subprocesses with the re-exec pattern: spawn your test binary as a subprocess to emulate real command behavior reliably.
John Arundel on his first steps as an author: “If just one person is helped and inspired by this book... then I’m not giving refunds to the others.”
Happy Birthday, Go!
We live in a world of walls, unfortunately, and some people would like to build even more of them. Whatever you think about that, the walls between software developers and IT operations staff don’t do anybody any favours.
Working scientists keep a lab notebook in which they write down everything they did, and what the results were. Sysadmin work is also about careful, scientific, detailed experimentation, especially when troubleshooting.
#578 — November 12, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Trends in the Go Ecosystem in 2025 — Analysis of the results from JetBrains’ recent Go Ecosystem Survey digging into which libraries Gophers use most often (much love for Gin...
Make it work, then make it right: the “red, green, refactor” technique helps us craft Go code that’s correct and beautiful. It’s easy! Shall we play a game?