--- title: "Two new official tutorials for Go 1.18 features" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 396 published_at: "2022-01-21" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/396" --- Plus using Go to build macOS Quick Look plugins, a Go-powered typing test, and are you sick of Wordle yet? | #​396 — January 21, 2022 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/396) Go Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/clmfqsprhoml04rxkw8u.jpg)](https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/generics) [An Official 'Getting Started with Generics' Tutorial](https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/generics) — As we keep saying, Go 1.18 is coming (it’s [in beta](https://go.dev/blog/go1.18beta1) right now) and generics are a much awaited part of that. So it’s great to see an official tutorial introducing the basics of using generics in Go, even if it, too, is in beta for now. Go Docs [Getting Started with Fuzzing in Go 1.18+](https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/fuzz) — In a similar fashion to the generics tutorial above, there’s also a new tutorial cover the practicalities of getting started with _fuzz testing_ (a type of automated testing where inputs are manipulated a large number of times to find subtle flaws in the thing being tested) in Go 1.18 and beyond. Go Docs [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/933e43ec.png)](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/getting-started-go-influxdb/?utm_source=vendor&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=2022-01-21_spnsr-nl_getting-started-go-influxdb_global&utm_content=gonews) [It's Go Time - Get Started with InfluxDB](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/getting-started-go-influxdb/?utm_source=vendor&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=2022-01-21_spnsr-nl_getting-started-go-influxdb_global&utm_content=gonews) — Write your real-time apps in Go with this step-by-step tutorial for InfluxDB. Use our code snippets, adapt, or write your own using the CLI. InfluxData sponsor ['What I'd Like to See in Go 2.0'](https://www.sethvargo.com/what-id-like-to-see-in-go-2/) — Seth clearly has the experience that inspires this well thought out list of language improvements around templating, a more deterministic `select`, standard structured logging, and more. Seth Vargo [Diving Into Go's HTTP Server Timeouts](https://crypti.cc/blog/2022/01/15/golang-http-server-timeouts.html) — Timeouts are a simple mechanism, that every server author should use, that almost always creates surprises in practice, so maybe this post will prepare you to be less surprised. Adam Pritchard **BRIEF BYTES:** - [fsnotify](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify) is a popular Go library for working with file system notifications but it's [looking for new maintainer(s)](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/413). - 📗 Due to be finished in March, but available in 'early access' now, [100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them](https://www.manning.com/books/100-go-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them) is a new book from Manning Publications written by Teiva Harsanyi. - Popular game platform _Roblox_ suffered a 73 hour outage back in October 2021 and [their extensive post-mortem](https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/) reveals, curiously, that a Go-powered piece of code ([BoltDB](https://github.com/boltdb/bolt)) was at the heart of it and its author [acknowledged the design problem](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30015913) on Hacker News too. - There aren't many Go podcasts out there, but if you're looking for a new one to check out, [🔊 Dominic St-Pierre has you sorted](https://go.transistor.fm/). 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Hired [Visualization in Go: Plotting Stock Information](https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2022/01/visualizations-in-go.html) — Admittedly Plotly is doing the hard work here, but Go is used to tie everything together. Miki Tebeka [Building GitHub Apps with Go](https://martinheinz.dev/blog/65) — Github Apps provide the ability to manage your repositories, their builds, and get stats, among other capabilities. Martin Heinz ▶[AI-Driven Development in Go with Alexey Palazhchenko](https://changelog.com/gotime/213) — A discussion about the implications of AI and ML-based systems (such as GitHub’s Copilot) on writing Go code. _(50 minutes.)_ Go Time Podcast podcast 🛠 Code & Tools [qlmka: macOS Quick-Look Plugin for Matroska `.mka` Files](https://github.com/remko/qlmka) — If you use macOS, you know that pressing Space on a file in the Finder can give you a ‘quick look’ preview of that file’s contents. It’s interesting to see Go used in such a plugin for once (with C providing the interface between macOS and the Go code) and no Xcode needed either. Remko Tronçon [Redix: A Fast Persistent Pure Key/Value Store](https://github.com/alash3al/redix) — A key value store that speaks the Redis protocol but uses Postgres as its storage engine. First unveiled three years ago as a learning experience, this has been frequently updated and turned into a neat project. Mohammed Al Ashaal [Enjoy Building Scalable Infrastructure in Go? Stream Is Hiring](https://angel.co/company/stream/jobs/241159-backend-software-engineer-go) Stream sponsor [Litestream: Real-Time Streaming Replication for SQLite](https://litestream.io/) — Continuously streams changes to a local SQLite database to S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud, over SFTP or NFS, etc. so you can recover more quickly if things go bad. 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