mdBook is a tool for easily creating books out of Markdown files. It's very popular in the Rust ecosystem, where it's used (among other things) to publish the official Rust book. mdBook has a simple yet effective plugin mechanism that can be used to modify the book output in arbi...
Here’s a small quiz derived from some incorrect advice from an AI coding assistant. This program prints two timestamps; will they be a. Roughly the same time (ie, the same second)b. Roughly 10 seconds apartc. Something else Answer after the fold
#583 — December 17, 2025 Read the Web Version 🎄 It's the last issue of 2025, so we're looking back over some of the big stories and links of the year. Also, Go Weekly will be moving to Fridays in January 2026, as part of a reshuffle for many of our new...
In the previous posts , we’ve explored how the Go compiler processes your code: the scanner breaks it into tokens, the parser builds an Abstract Syntax Tree, the type checker validates everything, and the Unified IR format serializes the type-checked AST into a compact bin...
Discusses some design choices used in Jubilant: Python subprocess.run to wrap a CLI tool, a code generator to convert Go structs to Python dataclasses, and the use of uv with a simple Makefile to run commands.
Quick takeaways Domain complexity matters more than technical complexity - Most projects fail not because of technical challenges, but because they don’t handle the business domain well. DDD is a toolbox, not a religion - You don’t need to use every pattern from Doma...
There's an old compiler-building tutorial that has become part of the field's lore: the Let's Build a Compiler series by Jack Crenshaw (published between 1988 and 1995). I ran into it in 2003 and was very impressed, but it's now 2025 and this tutorial is still being mentioned qui...
#582 — December 10, 2025 Read the Web Version 🗓️ A quick note that Go Weekly will be moving to Fridays in January 2026. We still have one more week before the Christmas break, though: we'll be back next Wednesday with our 2025 roundup!__Your editor,...
If cryptocurrencies aren’t managed by any central authority, what’s to stop anyone just printing themselves some money and spending it on pizza? The answer, excitingly, is “math”.