Update 2025-01-29: it's worth reading my morer recent post, Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years, which goes into the path forwards, from the upcoming Go 1.24 release. When working with Go codebases, it's likely that you'll be delegating some f...
A conversation about maintaining OSS and other software-related topics.
Introduction A blockchain is an integrated solution of different computer science problems in the form of a single, append-only, publicly available, transparent, and cryptographically auditable database that runs in a distributed and decentralized environment. I’ve heard many t...
I wanted to share a quick thing that made my life easier on tmux lately, but before we dig into that, I feel like I need to explain how I usually work.
If you're writing a library or piece of code in Go that you want to be sure works as expected when a consumer of the code uses it, you'll likely want to write some black box tests for it. These exercise only the public interface of the code, and ensure that valid use-cases for ex...
A conversation about maintaining OSS — in Portuguese.
You may have noticed that the team at Gopher Academy has been unusually quiet lately. In April, we contacted the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort to discuss the cancellation of our conference at their property.
Last year I wrote a new HTTP router for Go called Flow. I've been using it in production on this site and in a couple of other projects since, and I'm pretty happy with how it's working out so decided to share it a bit more widely. My aim with Flow was to bring together my favo...