#547 — March 26, 2025 |
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Go Weekly |
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Go on the PlayStation 2 — If you like tinkering with consoles and shoe-horning Go into new (or old?) environments, this post is for you. It involves TinyGo, C, and a lot of trial and error. Ricardo Gomes da Silva |
Make Your App an OAuth Provider — Use Stytch to easily add 3rd party integrations, make your app agent ready, and enable data connectivity. Be your own OAuth 2.0/OIDC Identity Provider with Stytch Connected Apps. Check out our Go quickstart. Stytch sponsor |
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How and Why PlanetScale Built a VM in Go — PlanetScale is a well known cloud based MySQL host that uses the Go-powered Vitess MySQL scaler. This article covers the tale of building a virtual machine in Go to work with the SQL ASTs produced by their SQL parser and how it’s as fast (or sometimes faster) as MySQL’s own C++ approach. Vicent Martí (PlanetScale) |
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IN BRIEF:
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The Right Way to Do Data Fixtures in Go — If you don’t have a strategy for data fixtures from the start, problems can show up in ways that make testing brittle. Here are some tips to get started on the right foot and prevent the need to fix your fixtures later. Brandur Leach |
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📄 Deep vs Shallow Go Interfaces – As they say, the bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction. Paschalis Tsilias 📄 Two Mul or Not Two Mul: How I Found a 20% Improvement in ed25519 in Go Egon Elbre 📄 How to Include Git Version Information in Go Binaries Carlana 📄 Finding a Free Port in Go Gwendolyn |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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golangci-lint v2: A Fast Linter Runner for Go — A tool for running Go code linters (about 100 of them!), quickly, in parallel, with caching, YAML configuration, IDE integration, and more. There are some helpful migration instructions if you’re upgrading from v1. GolangCI Contributors |
Goavatar: Generate Unique, Symmetric Identicons Based on a String — Given a string (like a username, say), this generates very basic icons in a deterministic way that you could use for a little added visual recognition. Muhammad Saim |
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Physix.go: A Simple Physics Engine for Go — An interesting project from a high school student (who explains the background to this project here) providing basic physics capabilities when using Ebitengine. Rudransh Bhardwaj |
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gocodewalker: A Way to 'Walk' Directories of Code — If you want to walk through a nested set of directories in a code repo while respecting Ben Boyter |
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go-profile: A Port of Brendan Gregg's eBPF Ben Baker |
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mus-go: MUS Format Serialization Library — MUS is a binary serialization format focused on simplicity. Yuri Zinchenko |
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