When working with Go, you have three main building blocks to help organize your code: files, packages and modules. But as Go developers, one of the common challenges we have is knowing how to best combine these building blocks to structure a codebase. In this post, I'll share a...
#539 — January 22, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Go 1.24 Release Candidate 2 Released — We’re another step down the road to the eventual release of Go 1.24, and the Go team are particularly keen for you to kick the tire...
Happy new year! The first release of the year is here!
Leaving a principal software engineer role while having a newborn kid, a mortgage to pay, and a house being built may not sound like the best idea. Still, I took a significant pay cut so I could make a living by educating people about software. Some people literally told me that...
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. The post Go 1.23.5-1 and 1.22.11-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
#538 — January 15, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly An Interactive Tour of Go 1.24 — A list of all the significant new 1.24 features. Each is accompanied by interactive, runnable examples so you can see generic type aliases...
If you're building Docker containers which reference a private Go module, you'll likely need to work out a way to pass in credentials, so you don't have to build on your host machine. I first encountered this last March and as I've hit it again today, I thought I'm make sure I wr...
Automatic Differentiation (AD) is an important algorithm for calculating the derivatives of arbitrary functions that can be expressed by a computer program. One of my favorite CS papers is "Automatic differentiation in machine learning: a survey" by Baydin, Perlmutter,...
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the next step in your career.