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Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors
mdBook is a tool for easily creating books out of Markdown files. It's very popular in the Rust ecosystem, where it's used (among other things) to publish the official Rust book. mdBook has a simple yet effective plugin mechanism that can be used to modify the book output in arbi...
Pop quiz: what time was it?
Here’s a small quiz derived from some incorrect advice from an AI coding assistant. This program prints two timestamps; will they be a. Roughly the same time (ie, the same second)b. Roughly 10 seconds apartc. Something else Answer after the fold
What an error log level should mean (a system administrator's view)
Go 1.26 RC1, and the top links of 2025
#583 — December 17, 2025 Read the Web Version 🎄 It's the last issue of 2025, so we're looking back over some of the big stories and links of the year. Also, Go Weekly will be moving to Fridays in January 2026, as part of a reshuffle for many of our new...
Don't fear Python subprocess or Go codegen
Discusses some design choices used in Jubilant: Python subprocess.run to wrap a CLI tool, a code generator to convert Go structs to Python dataclasses, and the use of uv with a simple Makefile to run commands.
DDD: A Toolbox, Not a Religion
Quick takeaways Domain complexity matters more than technical complexity - Most projects fail not because of technical challenges, but because they don’t handle the business domain well. DDD is a toolbox, not a religion - You don’t need to use every pattern from Doma...
Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"
There's an old compiler-building tutorial that has become part of the field's lore: the Let's Build a Compiler series by Jack Crenshaw (published between 1988 and 1995). I ran into it in 2003 and was very impressed, but it's now 2025 and this tutorial is still being mentioned qui...
Shhh.. Go's getting a 'secret mode'
#582 — December 10, 2025 Read the Web Version 🗓️ A quick note that Go Weekly will be moving to Fridays in January 2026. We still have one more week before the Christmas break, though: we'll be back next Wednesday with our 2025 roundup!__Your editor,...
When doomed stubs attack: blockchain voting and proof of work
If cryptocurrencies aren’t managed by any central authority, what’s to stop anyone just printing themselves some money and spending it on pizza? The answer, excitingly, is “math”.