#610 — July 17, 2026

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How I Use HTMX to Build Go Webapps — A practical walkthrough of using htmx (think AJAX-style updates driven by HTML attributes) with Go. Opinionated, super Go-specific, and honest about the tricky bits. A good starter on building server-rendered interfaces with incremental interactivity.

Alex Edwards

One Postgres for Your App and Your Metrics — TimescaleDB extends the Postgres you already run so high-volume metrics and events stay queryable at scale. Hypertables, up to 95% compression, continuous aggregates. One database to operate, not two. Get $1000 credit to start.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

Compile-Time OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for Go — No more hand-written instrumentation or eBPF agents needed, as OpenTelemetry's compile-time instrumentation for Go is now stable. It uses -toolexec to inject telemetry automatically, but v1's library coverage has some limits worth noting.

Kemal Akkoyun (OpenTelemetry)

IN BRIEF:

14 years ago Rob Pike proposed removing string(int) – there's an update! It's a likely decline but comments are open. The more recent conditional expression proposal is also looking likely to suffer a similar fate.
go fmt and go doc are set to no longer rewrite straight quotes into 'smart' quotes inside comments.
🕹️ Luigi Vanacore has released Beginning Game Programming with Go, a (paid) book about building a complete game using Ebitengine. The code is open source, though, and on GitHub.
Reddit's /r/golang discussed the situation where passing structs by value is faster than passing pointers.
url.MustParse has been accepted.

My Thoughts on the Future of Go in the AI Era — Akin to Steve Francia's recent piece, Alex argues that "AI might actually make boring languages more valuable, not less."

Alex Pliutau

📄 Eliminating Go Bounds Checks with unsafe – For optimization purposes. Andrii Berezhynskyi

📄 Implementing Go-Flavored Concurrency in C – Being done as part of Anton's work on his Solod compilable-to-C Go subset. Anton Zhiyanov

📄 How a Malicious Go Module Exposed a Network of GitHub Malware Lures Kirill Boychenko (Socket)

📄 6 Security Settings Every GitHub Maintainer Should Enable This Week Joseph Katsioloudes (GitHub)

🛠 Code & Tools

Fyne 2.8: A Big Update for the Popular GUI Toolkit — The cross-platform GUI toolkit lands its biggest release in years, adding GPU-accelerated shapes, shadows and custom GLSL shaders, richer Markdown rendering, multi-monitor window APIs, and more.

Fyne Team

AI Wrote the Diff. Who Reviews It? — Open-source multi-agent PR review, drops into GitHub Actions.

Agentfield.ai sponsor

GoLand 2026.2 Released — The latest release of the commercial Go IDE now integrates with the go fix tool and introduces a new 'Go optimization' tool that brings profiling, escape analysis, and struct optimization into one place.

Artem Pronichev (JetBrains)

🤖 Microsoft Agent Framework for Go in Public Preview — Microsoft follows in Google ADK Go's footsteps with its own framework for building, orchestrating and deploying AI agents and workflows. GitHub repo.

Quim Muntal (Microsoft)

💡 The New Stack shares some more background on the project, pointing a finger at Anthropic and OpenAI for not yet supporting Go directly with their similar SDKs.

💬 Chatto: A Go-Powered Group/Team Chat App — A complete, self-hostable Slack-like (except fast and doesn't nag about AI features constantly) group chat with a Go backend and SvelteKit frontend. GitHub repo.

Hendrik Mans

🎨 Sketchy: A Framework for Creating Generative Art in Go — This is pretty slick. Powered by Ebitengine and canvas behind the scenes.

Vernon Miller

🔒 Tinyauth 5.1 – Tiny authorization and authentication server. v5.1 marks it becoming officially OpenID Connect™ Certified and adds support for auth through Tailscale and deny-by-default access controls.
Echo 5.3 – The popular web framework adds support for the new HTTP QUERY method and adds a mechanism to automatically handle HEAD requests on GET endpoints.
THUNDERSNAP – A new library from Tailscale for replicating, forking, and sharing container snapshots. More here.
Tetra3D 0.18 – PS1/N64-inspired Ebitengine-based hybrid 3D renderer.
Gofeed 1.4 – A robust library for parsing RSS, Atom and JSON feeds.

📰 Classifieds

Sum types, exhaustive pattern matching, Option — the type system Go lacks, compiled to plain Go. Every Go module works. gala.fyi.

📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

✨ This week, I stumbled upon this table of the top 100 starred Go repos on GitHub. How far can you go before you find something new to you?
Last month, Bruce Ediger created a TFTP honeypot in Go (TFTP is a file transfer protocol often used by embedded devices and network hardware). Here's the results of what turned up on it.
If you woke up to AWS billing alerts forecasting you'll owe them billions of dollars at the end of the month, you're not alone.
GitHub's Dependabot is now giving packages a three-day default cooldown before opening version update PRs, though security fixes are exempt.
Did you know SQLite supports STRICT tables that actually attempt to enforce data is of the correct type?