--- title: "Building a code search index in Go" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 438 published_at: "2022-11-25" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/438" --- Plus a natural language detector, AWS's new Go-powered container tool, and I'm certainly feeling fuzzy. | #​438 — November 25, 2022 [Unsub](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Web Version](https://golangweekly.com/issues/438) Together with [![Akuity\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_350,h_50/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:4/xos2opctn6ln3cvjpkvb.png)](https://akuity.io/akuity-platform/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooperpress-primary&utm_campaign=golangweekly) The _Go Weekly_ Newsletter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/q2l3xprql39cbdyhibx0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWPiRq3ZYI) ▶[Fuzz Testing Made Easy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWPiRq3ZYI) — At GopherCon 2022, former Go core team member Katie Hockman presented a neat, accessible intro to fuzz testing starting from theoreticals and moving into a live demo. 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Akuity sponsor [Building a Custom Code Search Index in Go for searchcode.com](https://boyter.org/posts/how-i-built-my-own-index-for-searchcode/) — If the sentence “The use of trigrams inside a bloom filter search is as far as I can tell unique” excites you, then you should get a cup a coffee and read this post. [searchcode.com](https://searchcode.com/) is a neat source code search engine to check out separately, too. Ben E. C. Boyter [SSH Port Forwarding with Go](https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2022/ssh-port-forwarding-with-go/) — Why use `ssh` when you can script it with Go instead? If you’ve not played with [/x/crypto/ssh](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/crypto/ssh), this is a thorough and practical primer. Eli Bendersky ▶[How Do Go Programs Keep Working?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moS35OlJBmY) — Certainly a question I’ve asked myself.. This time it’s not the quality of my code that’s of concern but Go’s long term backwards compatibility. (If this sounds familiar, Russ gave a similar talk at GopherCon 2022 but the slides and audio are much better in this remote talk.) Russ Cox ▶[How Pinterest Delivers Software at Scale](https://changelog.com/gotime/257) — Nishant Roy, an engineering manager at Pinterest, went on _Go Time_ to talk about how Pinterest ships its software, its observability stack, Go-based services and more. Go Time Podcast podcast [Generating Stripe-Like Webhook Signatures](https://getconvoy.io/blog/generating-stripe-like-webhook-signatures/) Subomi Oluwalana 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/djoffymtce7yzu9j5f5j.jpg)](https://github.com/bitfield/script) [Script: Make It Easier to Write Shell-like Scripts in Go](https://github.com/bitfield/script) — Makes tasks like reading files, counting lines, making simple HTTP requests, and running subprocesses easier with an array of fluent chainable functions to make using Go in a scripting context a happier experience. John Arundel [Introducing Finch: A Go-Powered Tool for Container Development](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an-open-source-client-for-container-development/) — AWS has built a new open-source CLI tool for building, running, and publishing Linux containers. macOS only for now. 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