Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data

Analysing GitHub Pull Request review times with SQLite and Go

In Improving Team Efficiency By Measuring and Improving Code Review Cycle Time, I mentioned that one thing we can do to understand if code review is causing delays is to measure it. Since then, I've also worked on building this at Deliveroo with one of my colleagues, just before...

A program's (effective) log messages can have many sources

Go structured logging with slog

Before the release of version 1.21, you couldn’t set levels for your log messages in Go without either using third-party libraries or writing your own boilerplates. Coming from Python, I’ve always found this odd, considering that this capability has been in the Python...

What I worked on for Go 1.21

Go 1.21 has been released! For past releases, I wrote up my notes on what’s new in Go 1.18 (part 1, part 2), 1.19, and 1.20 (part 1, part 2, part 3), but I thought I would sit this round of blogging out, in part because there have been some good roundups of what’s new elsewhe...

Go structured logging with slog

Before the release of version 1.21, you couldn’t set levels for your log messages in Go without either using third-party libraries or writing your own boilerplates. Coming from Python, I’ve always found this odd, considering that this capability has been in the Python...

Go structured logging with slog

Before the release of version 1.21, you couldn’t set levels for your log messages in Go without either using third-party libraries or writing your own boilerplates. Coming from Python, I’ve always found this odd, considering that this capability has been in the Python...

Go structured logging with slog

Master Go 1.21's log/slog package for structured logging with levels, JSON output, and attribute grouping. No third-party libraries needed.

Programs shouldn't commit to fixed and predictable log messages

Announcing GoReleaser v1.20 — a quality-of-life release

A little over 100 commits in small-ish quality-of-life improvements.