For a little while, I’ve been considering the potential impact of generative Artificial Intelligence on various areas of our lives, more recently I’ve had very interesting conversations about applying AI to help the creations of manga/animé. This blurb was writing to...
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?
Not technical writing, but Jim Lawless interviewed me on his "Stray Pointers" podcast. We discuss Forth, C, CGI, Python, Go, and AWK.
#491 — January 16, 2024 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Initial Thoughts on Go 1.22 — 1.22 is due next month, but the release candidate gives us a look at plenty of changes and improvements coming down the pike, including new defa...
I recently rolled out go-semantic-release on dependency-management-data (DMD) to make managing the changelog a little easier, by taking Conventional Commits and converting them to a much nicer changelog. While dependency-management-data is actively used in production by several o...
I have always appreciated the Go Team investing time on providing the community with the Go Tour. This website is designed to help developers get started in learning the Go programming language. The nice part of the website is that it provides an interactive environment where one...
The first release candidate for Go 1.22 is out, which means it’s almost time for the final release and it is time for me to blog about what I worked on this cycle. As usual, my contributions were small, but they were mine, so I’m going to talk about them from a behind-the-sce...
This post provides some code samples for implementing a "Sign-in with Google" flow for your web application in Go. For an overview of auth/authz and the OAuth protocol, please refer to my earlier post about Sign-in with GitHub. Sign-in with Google has existed in one for...
If you're a follower of my blog you'll know that just one of the Open Source projects I maintain is the oapi-codegen OpenAPI-to-Go code generator. Last year, we received a feature request to handle the case where a JSON field may be one of three states - unspecified, set to null,...