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Update on Go 1.24 tool dependencies Go 1.24 introduced the -tool flag to go get and the tool stanza to go.mod. This makes tool dependencies an excellent way to manage protobuf plugins. I have rewritten this post with that in mind. Background When working with Protobuf and gRPC, o...
The previous release had ~100 commits, and this one has 149 since previous feature release! Definitely a big release, with some big features. Let’s dive in! GoReleaser Pro release using the new split/merge feature Highlights GoReleaser Pro can now split an...
In this post we're going to run through how to use cookies in your Go web application to persist data between HTTP requests for a specific client. We'll start simple, and slowly build up a working application which covers the following topics: Basic reading and writing of cook...
Continuing the recent theme of blog posts about Go tooling, this post will briefly discuss how analysis tools interact with one of Go's newest features - generics. As usual, this post provides a motivating example and discusses a couple of approaches to writing a tool. The full c...
Most people run GoReleaser by creating a tag locally, pushing it, and letting their CI takes care of the matter. Another lesser known option is to leverage workflow_dispatch on a GitHub Action to create the tag locally, and then “auto-creating” the tag once the releas...
A common question that comes up when writing AST-based tooling in Go is "how do I find a node's parent?", or more generally, "what are all the ancestors of a given node?" Go's AST package does not come with parent links out of the box; this is a common choice...