Catching grace: don’t just do something, sit there
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
Announcing GoReleaser v2.8
Happy March! Another release is here with several improvements across the board.
Cleanups and weak pointers in Go 1.24
#545 — March 12, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly TypeScript's Compiler to Get 10x Faster, Thanks to Go — TypeScript has shaken up the JavaScript ecosystem in recent years with an increasing number of developers relying on i...
Traversal-resistant file APIs
New file access APIs in Go 1.24.
Nil comparisons and Go interface
Comparing interface values in Go has caught me off guard a few times, especially with nils. Often, I’d expect a comparison to evaluate to true but got false instead. Many moons ago, Russ Cox wrote a fantastic blog post on interface internals that clarified my confusion. Thi...
Nil comparisons and Go interface
Comparing interface values in Go has caught me off guard a few times, especially with nils. Often, I’d expect a comparison to evaluate to true but got false instead. Many moons ago, Russ Cox wrote a fantastic blog post on interface internals that clarified my confusion. Thi...
Nil comparisons and Go interface
Debug tricky nil comparisons in Go interfaces. Understand dynamic types, type assertions, and use reflect for generic nil checking.
I'm on Fallthrough: An Exploration of APIs, Versioning, & HTTP
Earlier this year, I was invited to join the wonderful Fallthrough podcast to talk about APIs, which would be my first appearance on Fallthrough. As noted in I'm on Fallthrough: Patching Problems with Persnickety Proxies Purveyed by Paternalistic Princes, the episode on APIs was...
Go 1.24.1-1 and 1.23.7-1 Microsoft builds now available
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. The post Go 1.24.1-1 and 1.23.7-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
Stacked middleware vs embedded delegation in Go
Middleware is usually the go-to pattern in Go HTTP servers for tweaking request behavior. Typically, you wrap your base handler with layers of middleware—one might log every request, while another intercepts specific routes like /special to serve a custom response. However, I o...