The WebAssembly/tool-conventions repository contains "Conventions supporting interoperability between tools working with WebAssembly". Of special interest, in contains the Basic C ABI - an ABI for representing C programs in WASM. This ABI is followed by compilers like C...
“How many times were your people woken up by faults in production?” JAX DevOps talks to John about metrics, security, testing, and automation.
You can sign Git commits and tags with SSH keys instead of GPG.
#579 — November 19, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly 🎂 Go Turns Sixteen Years Old — Go was open sourced sixteen years ago, and there’s much to be excited about in both the recent past and the near future. Austin gives a min...
If you’re using GitHub Actions in your projects, you should be pinning your actions to specific commit SHAs instead of using tags or branches.
When testing Go code that spawns subprocesses, you usually have three options. Run the real command. It invokes the actual binary that creates the subprocess and asserts against the output. However, that makes tests slow and tied to the environment. You have to make sure the same...
John Arundel on his first steps as an author: “If just one person is helped and inspired by this book... then I’m not giving refunds to the others.”
Happy Birthday, Go!
We live in a world of walls, unfortunately, and some people would like to build even more of them. Whatever you think about that, the walls between software developers and IT operations staff don’t do anybody any favours.