--- title: "Someone ported NIBBLES.BAS to Go" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 413 published_at: "2022-05-27" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/413" --- Plus God is on hand to help you deploy Go services, and now you can test your typing with Go. | #​413 — May 27, 2022 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/413) The _Go Weekly_ Newsletter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/yllrzbahlory1km6ddlt.jpg)](https://github.com/livebud/bud) [Bud: A New Web Framework for Gophers](https://github.com/livebud/bud) — And in a classic Ruby on Rails-esque style, the creator has [a fantastic 15-minute screencast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoypcRqn-xA) showing off how to use it – not to build a blog, but a Hacker News client of sorts. Matt Mueller [Google's Greedy Go Module Mirror?](https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/25/Google-has-been-DDoSing-sourcehut.html) — The owner of [Sourcehut](https://sourcehut.org/), a popular open source forge, claims that the changes to Go modules in 1.16 resulted in his git service receiving tons of redundant and expensive traffic from Google and his pleas for help appear to have not gotten him too far yet. Drew DeVault [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8d3f246b.png)](https://goteleport.com/how-it-works/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=golangweekly) [How Teleport Works](https://goteleport.com/how-it-works/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=golangweekly) — Teleport provides secure access to SSH or Windows servers, Windows Desktops, Kubernetes clusters, Databases, and Web Applications. Teleport is trivial to set up as a Linux daemon or in a Kubernetes pod. [Learn more](https://goteleport.com/how-it-works/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=golangweekly). Teleport sponsor ▶[Making an _Animal Crossing_-Type Game for Beginners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWp-mCIQgMU&list=PLVotA8ycjnCsy30WQCwVU5RrZkt4lLgY5#animalcrossing) — The creator of these videos is only two episodes in so far, but has made it as far as moving a character around. It’s an uncommon use of Go, but it works well and leans on Go bindings to [Raylib](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib) for all the interesting parts. Avery Makes Games **IN BRIEF:** - 👾 Ever use _QBasic_ on DOS back in the 90s? You might remember a snake game called [Nibbles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_%28video_game%29) – someone [has faithfully recreated it](https://github.com/gophun/nibbles) in Go. _(Trivia: My first 'newsletter' was a QBasic one on Usenet in the mid 90s!)_ - [Typioca](https://github.com/bloznelis/typioca) is an elegant terminal-based typing speed tester written in Go. - A team rewrote a service in Go (from Node.js) [and saw huge increases](https://nhost.io/blog/hasura-storage-in-go-5x-performance-increase-and-40-percent-less-ram) in throughput and a 40% reduction in memory use. - The latest episode of _Go Time_ looks at the Berlin tech scene's [▶️ adoption of Go](https://changelog.com/gotime/231) and the Go community there. **RELEASES:** - [Sonic 1.3](https://github.com/bytedance/sonic) – Extremely fast JSON library. - [Kratos 2.3](https://github.com/go-kratos/kratos) – Framework for gRPC-based microservices. - [immudb 1.3](https://github.com/codenotary/immudb/releases/tag/v1.3.0) – Immutable database system. - [Plow 1.2](https://github.com/six-ddc/plow) – High perf HTTP benchmarking tool. - [Traefik 2.7.0](https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.7.0) – Popular reverse proxy and load balancer. - [Oak 4.0](https://github.com/oakmound/oak/releases/tag/v4.0.0) – 2D game engine. - [Fiber 2.34.0](https://github.com/gofiber/fiber/releases/tag/v2.34.0) – Express.js-inspired Web framework. - [WAL 2.0](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/wal-g-20-released-2456/) – Postgres archival and restoration. [The Functional Options Pattern is Slow](https://www.evanjones.ca/go-functional-options-slow.html) — Functional options are often held up as a gold standard for configuring objects, but they are slower and have some other real disadvantages compared to other approaches. Evan Jones [How To Bootstrap a Quality Go Backend](https://8thlight.com/blog/emmanuel-byrd/2022/05/19/well-thought-project-layout-design-for-a-golang-backend.html) — Miscellaneous initial thoughts on picking an HTTP framework, laying out files, and some testing best practices. Emmanuel Byrd [Go Nulls and SQL](https://ente.io/blog/tech/go-nulls-and-sql/) — Dealing with zero values, nilables, nil, and null can lead to bugs and frustration, but the standard library does help us out here. Ente 🛠 Code & Tools [Gocache 3.0: A Cache Abstraction Library](https://github.com/eko/gocache) — If you’ve got caching to do, Gocache can handle it. 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Cloudflare and Cilium [God: A Tool to Deploy and Manage Go Services using `systemd`](https://github.com/pioz/god) — A tool that puts your Go binary on to a remote Linux server then creates a `systemd` file to let you start/stop/restart the process. Enrico [Issue Tracking Has Never Been Easier With Shortcut](https://shortcut.com/?utm_source=cooperGO&utm_medium=spon_nl&utm_campaign=prospecting&utm_content=issuetrack) Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) sponsor [Kind: Run Local Kubernetes Clusters using Docker Containers as Nodes](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/) — You can get a basic Kubernetes cluster running locally _very_ quickly with this approach. Kubernetes Project [Rqlite 7.5.0 Released with Queued Write Support](https://www.philipotoole.com/rqlite-trading-durability-for-performance/) — Rqlite is a distributed database that uses SQLite as its storage engine and with _queued writes_ you can now get much higher write performance in return for a little less durability. 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