In praise of modest, simple third party packages for GNU Emacs
It's Go vs Rust again
#478 — October 3, 2023 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Rust vs Go: A Hands-On Comparison — Despite all their differences, Rust and Go are frequently compared. Someone who's predominantly a Rust developer has given the idea another...
Summary of reading: July - September 2023
"Ordinary Wolves" by Seth Kantner - a fictional account about coming of age as a subsistence hunter and fur trader in remote Alaska wilderness in the 1970s and 80s. Since I've read "A thousand trails home" already, the plot is very familiar - the author proje...
How (not) to apply for a software job
Advice for how to (and how not to) apply for a software engineering job, particularly for the written parts of the interview process. As a bonus, some tips for your resume/CV.
Deconstructing Type Parameters
Why the function signatures in the slices packages are so complicated.
Fixing Go's for loops, for real
#477 — September 26, 2023 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Organizing a Go Module — It’s common for Go developers to think about how to organize the files and directories in projects (some of our most popular links have been on t...
Watermill 1.3 released, an open-source event-driven Go library
Hey, it’s been a long time! We’re happy to share that Watermill v1.3 is now out! What is Watermill Watermill is an open-source library for building message-driven or event-driven applications the easy way in Go. Our definition of “easy” is as easy as build...
Changing GNU Emacs Lisp functions through <code>advice-add</code>, not brute force
Announcing GoReleaser v1.21 — mostly bug fixes
A boring release, mostly bug fixes. Boring is good. Highlights You can now sort tags by semver in GoReleaser Pro Docker pushes will now be retried when the registry yields a 503. It’ll retry 10 times. Winget: added support for package_dependencies and update schema versio...
Implementing Enumerations In Go
Introduction Prior to coding in Go, I was writing software in C#. In C# enumerations can be declared and the associated type can be used in functions and as fields in a struct. The compiler won’t allow a value of the enumerated type to be passed or set that doesn’t belong to...