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Slices, Maps, and Channels
So far in this series we’ve looked at the parts of the Go runtime that orchestrate execution — the memory allocator, the scheduler, the garbage collector, sysmon, the netpoller. Today we’re switching gears and looking at three of the most ordinary things in Go: slic...
Some views on Eglot and lsp-mode in GNU Emacs
Configuring Renovate to only suggest updates that match your `go` directive
In the Go ecosystem, there are two key parts of the go.mod to note (aside from the dependencies themselves) which are the go and toolchain directives. The go directive allows specifying the minimum version of the Go language that needs to be used to work with this module. The too...
Scaling, stretching and shifting sinusoids
This is a brief and simple [1] explanation of how to adjust the standard sinusoid sin(x) to change its amplitude, frequency and phase shift. More precisely, given the general function: \[s(x)=A\cdot sin(w\cdot x+\theta)\] We’ll see how adjusting the parameters , and affect th...
Hoisting wire plumbing out of your Go handlers
Four of the five steps in every unary RPC handler are wire plumbing. Pin the service function signature and they fit in one generic adapter per transport.
Three new Go proposals
#599 — May 1, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Zero-Config Go Heap Profiling — Go’s runtime samples heap allocations automatically, but the linker disables this in apps that don’t import runtime/pprof or net/http/pprof. This...
Thoughts on WebAssembly as a stack machine
This week the article Wasm is not quite a stack machine has been making the rounds and has caught my eye. The post claims that WASM is not a pure stack machine because it has locals and is missing some stack manipulation operations like dup and swap. While I don't …
Switching entirely to Corfu in my GNU Emacs configuration
If it's in JSON, it's not really a configuration file