Reading List
This page is auto-generated from Github Actions workflow that runs every day at night and fetches the 5 latest articles from each of my favorite blogs.
Pinning GitHub Actions
If you’re using GitHub Actions in your projects, you should be pinning your actions to specific commit SHAs instead of using tags or branches.
Re-exec testing Go subprocesses
When testing Go code that spawns subprocesses, you usually have three options. Run the real command. It invokes the actual binary that creates the subprocess and asserts against the output. However, that makes tests slow and tied to the environment. You have to make sure the same...
“Frowning at a screen for 200 hours”: on the writing process
John Arundel on his first steps as an author: “If just one person is helped and inspired by this book... then I’m not giving refunds to the others.”
Go’s Sweet 16
Happy Birthday, Go!
Build bridges, not walls
We live in a world of walls, unfortunately, and some people would like to build even more of them. Whatever you think about that, the walls between software developers and IT operations staff don’t do anybody any favours.
Sysadmins take note
Working scientists keep a lab notebook in which they write down everything they did, and what the results were. Sysadmin work is also about careful, scientific, detailed experimentation, especially when troubleshooting.
Google releases its agent development kit for Go
#578 — November 12, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Trends in the Go Ecosystem in 2025 — Analysis of the results from JetBrains’ recent Go Ecosystem Survey digging into which libraries Gophers use most often (much love for Gin...
Red, green, refactor: writing perfect Go, with TDD
Make it work, then make it right: the “red, green, refactor” technique helps us craft Go code that’s correct and beautiful. It’s easy! Shall we play a game?
Put a little Pixie in your cluster
Pixie is a powerful troubleshooting and telemetry tool for clusters. Let’s see how it can help solve the Case of the Sluggish Service.