Announcing GoReleaser v2.6
Happy new year! The first release of the year is here!
Sometimes print-based debugging is your only choice
We quit our jobs to help people write software more mindfully
Leaving a principal software engineer role while having a newborn kid, a mortgage to pay, and a house being built may not sound like the best idea. Still, I took a significant pay cut so I could make a living by educating people about software. Some people literally told me that...
Go 1.23.5-1 and 1.22.11-1 Microsoft builds now available
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. The post Go 1.23.5-1 and 1.22.11-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
An interactive tour of Go 1.24
#538 — January 15, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly An Interactive Tour of Go 1.24 — A list of all the significant new 1.24 features. Each is accompanied by interactive, runnable examples so you can see generic type aliases...
Accessing private Go modules in a Docker container
If you're building Docker containers which reference a private Go module, you'll likely need to work out a way to pass in credentials, so you don't have to build on your host machine. I first encountered this last March and as I've hit it again today, I thought I'm make sure I wr...
How to know when it's time to go
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the next step in your career.
Realizing why Go reflection restricts what struct fields can be modified
The latest Go dev survey results
#537 — January 8, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Happy New Year to all. In case you missed our note prior to the Christmas break, Go Weekly is now published on Wednesdays – we were missing too many high profile items that were landing late on Tuesdays, s...
The magic function
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is easy: you use them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic function” approach.