⭐️  Go: A Documentary (Of Sorts) — What happens if you bring together over 700 links to papers, talks, issues, and other digital artefacts covering Go’s history, the background to its feature, creators, and more? You get this treasure trove of a resource. A feat of curation.

Changkun Ou

Speeding Up Go's Builtin JSON Encoder — A lot of modern programs use JSON as a data interchange format with the outside world, so being able to read and write it quickly is a must. How fantastic, then, that folks like Phil are putting in work like this. go-json is the end result.

Phil Eaton

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Go 1.17.8 and Go 1.16.15 Released — Includes a security fix for a problems on 64-bit platforms where a deeply nested expression can cause regexp.Compile to exhaust the stack (issue here).

Carlos, Alex, and the Go Team

Prig: It's Like AWK, But Uses Go for 'Scripting' — The creator of GoAWK creates a CLI tool that is AWK-like (minus a couple of features) and shows the 200 lines of code it took to build it.

Ben Hoyt

Using WWW-Authenticate for User Authentication — If your auth needs are (very) simple, this approach (also known as HTTP Basic Auth) could save you a lot of time and code.

Brian Mayer

Building a Command Line Tool with Go: Lolcat — A light hearted and very easy to follow tutorial from a 15 year old Peruvian gopher :-)

Eliaz Bobadilla

How to Set Up a Blog with Hugo and Cloudflare (and Why You Should) — This tutorial is focused on the logistics rather than Go, but Hugo is a popular Go-powered static site generator worth considering for your projects.

Smaller Fish

Juniper: An Extended Go Standard Library using Generics — Generic-based packages are starting to emerge, like Jupiter which extends containers, lists, slices, and more.

Braden Walker

Bun 1.1: A Fluent SQL Client for Several Databases — A client library that provides an ‘ORM-like’ experience with Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, and SQLite. The querying approach is quite idiosyncratic but very fluent.

Uptrace

Lo: A Lodash-Style Library for Go 1.18+ — Lodash is a popular JavaScript utility library that, to a point, makes up for various deficits in JS’s approach for working with collections. This generics-based attempt brings similar utility methods for working with slices, maps, and more in Go too and treads some similar ground to Juniper (above).

Samuel Berthe

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Bubble Table: A Table Component for Bubble Tea — If you haven’t checked out Bubble Tea before, you should. It’s a nifty terminal UI library for Go.

Brandon Fulljames

pg_back 2.1.0: A Simple and Thorough Backup Tool for Postgres — A tool (written in Go) for dumping your databases to files, including roles, server parameters, and more, in the format of your choice. Uses pg_dumpall and pg_dump behind the scenes to get all the data you need.

Nicolas Thauvin

gokrazy: A Pure-Go Userland for Raspberry Pis — No C runtime, no console, no systemd, just gokrazy (and its web interface) and your Go application. We linked this recently but it has just added support for connecting to encrypted WiFi networks.

Michael Stapelberg