Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18

Shows how much the performance of Go has improved from version 1.2 through to 1.18 -- in its compiler, runtime, and libraries.

Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine

How I sped up GoAWK by switching from a tree-walking interpreter to a bytecode compiler and virtual machine interpreter.

Forwarding Discord's RPC socket over SSH

I’m doing 99% of my coding in a “big” machine instead of my laptop. I do that by SSH’ing into it, hopefully into a tmux session, and coding on Neovim. Neovim has a neat plugin that shows what’re doing as a Discord Rich Presence thing… but, Dis...

Git 2.34 has changed how you configure fast-forward only pulls and rebasing

Rapid AWS Lambda development with Go and Mantil

If you need to develop an AWS Lambda function in Go, take a look at Mantil, a dev kit with staging and database connection included.

git-worktree is awesome

I’m still mad I haven’t found this out before. Imagine you’re working on something, then you need to work on something else on the same repo for whatever reason - you have some modified files, some new ones, some deleted… what do you do? I would usually...

Announcing GoReleaser v1.4 — the AUR release

GoReleaser can now create and publish Arch Linux PKGBUILD files to Arch User Repositories! neofetch in an Arch Linux container This amazing new feature was sponsored by Charm. How does it work? The AUR is basically a group of Git repositories that, if you push...

Go generics are going to be both simple and complex (as of Go 1.18)

Visualization in Go - Plotting Stock Information

Introduction You’d like to visualize some stock data using Go, but after looking at the Go ecosystem you see very little in charting. You find gonum, which has some plotting capabilities, but it generates static charts. It’s 2022, and you’d like to have interact...

Announcing GoReleaser 1.3 — the first of 2022

We just launched GoReleaser v1.3, the first release of 2022!