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A hard rain's a-gonna fall: decoding JSON in Rust
Everybody’s talking JSON at me, but I don’t hear a word they’re saying. Instead, I need to deserialize that data into a Rust value I can use. Luckily, there’s a crate for that.
LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology
Depending on your particular use case, choosing boring technology is often a good idea. Recently, I've been thinking more and more about how the rise and increase in power of LLMs affects this choice. By definition, boring technology has been around for a long time. Piles of cont...
Early excitement for Go 1.26
#575 — October 22, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly The Draft Go 1.26 Release Notes — It’s still early days for the under-development Go 1.26, due to land in February 2026, but there’s already a draft set of release notes cov...
Avoiding collisions in Go context keys
Along with propagating deadlines and cancellation signals, Go’s context package can also carry request-scoped values across API boundaries and processes. There are only two public API constructs associated with context values: func WithValue(parent Context, key, val any) Co...
Getting Friendly With CPU Caches
Understanding how your data structures interact with hardware is one of the most powerful ways to improve application performance. This blogpost explores how CPU caches influence speed and how thoughtful struct design in Go can yield massive gains. Through a real-world case study...
Durable Background Execution with Go and SQLite
A DNS outage is like a flash flood. It hits you and disappears as if it were never there. “It was probably the DNS” became a meme. But, half the time, we do not know the exact cause. The outage is seldom long enough to diagnose, sequester, replicate, simulate, and tes...
The strange case of 'mouse action traps' in GNU Emacs with (slower) remote X
Staring at code can change what I see (a story from long ago)
Is channel-based iteration slow?
#574 — October 15, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly 15 Go Subtleties You May Not Already Know — A well written roundup of lesser-known Go features or idiosyncrasies that’s worth a skim even if only a few jump out at you. Or if...