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Go 1.26.6-1 and 1.25.13-1 Microsoft builds now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. The post Go 1.26.6-1 and 1.25.13-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

GopherCon UK 2026

For the 3rd year running, I've been at GopherCon UK and am surprised to have survived the heat in London - highs of 36 degrees yesterday - but thankfully The Brewery is a lovely and cool event space. I'm writing this on the train home, with a slightly tired voice, and a little ti...

A slightly unusual issue, in three acts

#​614 — August 14, 2026 Read the Web Version 🏖️ We're taking a break next week, and will be back on August 28. Due to this, and the imminent Go 1.27 release, we're shaking the format up a bit this week…!__Your editor, Peter Cooper Go Week...

Revisiting Flymake and Flycheck in GNU Emacs (as of Flycheck v39)

Yzma

In the previous article we looked at what inference actually is — how a model takes a prompt and builds a response one token at a time. I mentioned two Go projects that let you run that loop locally: yzma, which lets Go call the llama.cpp inference engine directly, and kronk,...

Some ways to navigate through 'git blame' over time in GNU Emacs

An interactive tour of Go 1.27

#​613 — August 7, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly An Interactive Tour of Go 1.27 — Anton Zhiyanov made interactive tours for Go 1.22 through 1.26 but decided to stop. Jesús Espino has picked up the baton and tackles Go 1.27's hu...

Looking at the memory map of a Go 1.27 program on Linux

Writing code isn't the bottleneck anymore, reading is

This week I was working on one non-critical feature that seemed simple at first sight. 50k lines of code later, it seemed to work as expected. In a side project, or a service where “nobody will be upset if it’s dead and kills everything around”, it would be read...