Awesome Go: Almost 2400 Categorized Go Resources — Every year we link to this fantastic resource because unlike many ‘awesome’ lists, it continues to get very frequent updates and you’re encouraged to submit contributions of your own too (but don't forget to send them to us too! 😉)

Awesome Go

Gophers - Opportunity is Knocking — We’re a premier software engineering firm looking for mid to senior level engineers to help us develop advanced software solutions and applications in Go. Got at least 1 year of professional Go experience and located in the Americas or Western Europe? We want to hear from you.

Ardan Labs sponsor

Notes from a Go 1.17 to 1.18 Upgrade — The folks at Brev were itching to upgrade to Go 1.18 to get their hands on generics and this post touches on a few things they encountered.

Alec Fong

A Limitation on What go install Can Install (as of Go 1.18) — “For now, if you’re developing a Go program and you need to use replace directives in your go.mod during development, you’ll have to do some extra work.”

Chris Siebenmann

Creating a Custom GitHub Action with Go — If you want to go even smaller with your Docker image, though, consider using multi stage builds with distroless, as labeler-action does.

Gurleen Sethi

go-nanoid: An Fast and Efficient Unique ID Generator — Note that this does not generate UUIDs, but it generates URL friendly IDs from a larger character set which makes them shorter. ksuid may be of interest to you if you’d prefer something sortable.

Jaden X

Boxes and Glue: A Typesetting Library — What a charming name. This is a PDF typesetting library using “the spirit of TeX’s algorithms” to lay out elements onto the page. This tweet gives an idea of how rendered text looks. (Note the AGPLv3 license.)

speedata GmbH

go-contracts.co.uk: Find the Best Go Contract Opportunities in the UK

go-contracts․co.uk sponsor

Sliding Window Sampling for go-metrics — Usually with go-metrics, old data is only expired as new data comes in but on low-volume metrics this can cause misleading results through the use of stale data. The sliding window approach implemented here helps to resolve that.

CrowdStrike