Golang Weekly Issue 184: November 2, 2017

Golang Weekly

Issue 184 — November 2, 2017

Featured

Using the Go Tracer to Speed Up Fractal Making

We linked Francesc’s awesome vid last week, but now there’s a full write up to follow instead.

Francesc Campoy

The Ultimate Guide to Go's Variadic Funcs

Variadic functions are those that can accept a variable number of arguments.

Inanc Gumus

Tui: A UI Library for Terminal Apps

Build layout-based UIs that can gracefully handle resizing for you.

Marcus Olsson

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Linode Cloud Hosting sponsored

GERT: A Go Embedded Run-Time for ARMv7

Still in the research/prototype stages, this is a modified version of Go that runs bare-metal on ARMv7-A SOCs.

Yanni Coroneos

How Go and a Raspberry Pi Power a Piano-Playing AI

Learn how a dev used Go and a Raspberry Pi to create AI specifically tuned to his own style.

Zach Scholl

Context API Explained

Written back in January, but it’s a great article explaining why the Context API was created.

Sina Siadat

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Join Decred in Shaping the Future of Cryptocurrency

Seeking passionate Golang devs ready to break into the world of blockchains and financial disintermediation.

Decred

In Brief

Go 1.8 Now The Default Runtime on Google App Engine news

Victor Liu

Francesc Campoy Leaving Google's Go Team news

.. but will continue to be a member of the community.

Francesc Campoy

Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications

Is your application easy to monitor in production? Many applications are, but sadly, some are designed with observability as an afterthought.

VividCortex sponsored

An HTTP(S) Proxy in Less Than 100 Lines of Code tutorial

Michał Łowicki

Cross Compile an SDL Game From Linux to Windows Using cgo tutorial

Kamal Velan

How to Use HTML5, Go and Facebox to Verify Your Face tutorial

What if your username for websites was your face?

Machine Box

Dev Horror Stories - Part II story

“My company decided to switch from Om to Om Next to React, so now we have three frameworks in our frontend.”

CircleCI sponsored

Go Report Card: Project Code Quality Report Cards tools

Enter a URL to a Go repo and get a report card that checks format, linting, and other items.

Go Report Card

Air: Live Reload for Go Apps tools

Rick Yu

unimport: A Static Analysis Tool to Find Unnecessary Import Aliases tools

Alex Kohler

progressbar: A Basic, Thread-Safe Progressbar code

Zack Scholl

Riot: A Simple, Open Source, Distributed Search Engine code

ego

hamt.go: Immutable and Memory-Efficient Maps and Sets code

HAMT stands for “Hash-Array Mapped Trie” that is often used for maps/dictionaries.

Yota Toyama

Retry: Invoke 'Flaky' Functions Until They Succeed code

A configurable retry package - set number of attempts, delays between attempts, etc.

Adam Lieskovsky

GoDotEnv: Loads Environment Variables From a '.env' File code

Handy for populating environment variables in a development environment.

John Barton

goscan: An Efficient Local IPv4 Network Scanner code

Null Bro