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.

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...

XML is better than YAML. Hear me out…

They turned my unpopular opinion from Go Time 289 into a standalone blog post. Check it out!

Gotchas with pointing Go modules to a fork, when building an installable module

This morning I cut a release of dependency-management-data which ended up horribly breaking all consumers of the application. As I flagged in the tracking issue for this, trying to install the CLI would lead to the following error: $ go install dmd.tanna.dev/cmd/dmd@latest go: dm...

Making a function that defines functions in GNU Emacs ELisp

Fixing For Loops in Go 1.22

Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.

Explaining Go's WebAssembly System Interface support

#​476 — September 19, 2023 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly fx 30: The Go-Powered Terminal JSON Viewer — fx has long been a useful tool for looking at JSON files, but Anton has taken the opportunity to rewrite it from the ground up...