Reading List
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mmap vs pread in a real Go storage engine
When you build a storage engine in Go, sooner or later you need to answer a very plain question: “How should the code read bytes from files?” This sounds too low-level to matter. A database has bigger ideas: partitions, blocks, indexes, filters, compression, compactio...
Go maps, hashes of map keys, and pointers: a little surprise
GoReleaser announcements are moving
From now on, GoReleaser release announcements will only be published on the GoReleaser blog.
Modernizers & go fix
Go 1.26 rebuilt go fix on the analysis framework. It modernizes your code and respects the Go version your module declares. The post covers the modernizers, the bigger x/tools suite, and what //go:fix inline can and can't migrate.
Thoughts on coding agents
The models are being trained to produce trajectories that are effective for people who already know where they want to go. The value is not really the model guessing your intent. The value is the model compressing the distance between a clear intent and its execution. Once you se...
Gin: 12 years, 88K stars, and zero broken APIs
#608 — July 3, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Building Gin: Simple Over Easy — Did you know Gin, the popular Go web framework, was built for a social network that never took off? Twelve years and 88K stars later, its creator re...
Summary of reading: April - June 2026
"The Nuremberg Trial" by John Tusa and Ann Tusa - a detailed, meticulously researched account of the Nuremberg Trials. There's not a whole lot of side questing in this book - it's all focused on the trials themselves. Interesting read overall, though somewhat dry and a...
Profiling
In the previous article we took apart the reflect package and found that its magic is mostly the compiler leaving very good notes — type descriptors frozen into read-only data at build time, and a package that knows how to walk them. The whole article was about reading metadat...
Go interfaces, reflection, and binary size