static-server: an HTTP server in Go for static content

I put together a simple static file server in Go - useful for local testing of web applications. Check it out at https://github.com/eliben/static-server If you have Go installed on your machine, you don't have to download anything else; you can run: $ go run github.com/eliben/sta...

An important difference between <code>intern</code> and <code>make-symbol</code> in GNU Emacs ELisp

You can do this: surviving day one

It’s day one of your new job as a developer. What should you expect? How should you act? Will you survive “max Q“?

You can do this: surviving day one

It’s day one of your new job as a developer. What should you expect? How should you act? Will you survive “max Q“?

WASI support in Go

Go 1.21 adds a new port targeting the WASI preview 1 syscall API

GNU Emacs, use-package, and key binding for mode specific keymaps

Let's get optimizing

#​475 — September 12, 2023 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) in Go 1.21 — PGO has been a popular topic for blog posts recently, but here’s an as-close-to-official-as-it-gets example of using it to...

Setting up a matrix for GitHub Actions with Go's `go.mod` and specific versions

When you're building a library or set of tooling in Go, you may want to test against different versions of Go to give confidence in the project for both you and your users. I set about doing this today for oapi-codegen, and found that I wanted to take the following configuration:...

The AWK book's 60-line version of Make

A discussion of the minimal version of Make included in 'The AWK Programming Language', as well as a Python port of the AWK program.

Introduction to CORS for Go programmers

From its inception, the Web has been a game of whackamole between people finding security holes and exploits, and other people plugging these holes and adding defensive security mechanisms. One of the busiest arenas in this struggle is the interaction between code running on one...