---
title: "Go Newsletter Issue #73"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 73
published_at: "2015-08-27"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/73"
---

Go Newsletter 73   . 

[Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/73) 

[Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 73 — August 27, 2015     

Featured [Stupid Gopher Tricks](http://talks.golang.org/2015/tricks.slide?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#1) slidedeck The intro slide says it all: “This talk is about things you might not know about Go. Some of this stuff you can add to your Go vocabulary. Other things are probably best left for special occasions.” Andrew Gerrand [Profiling and Optimizing in Go](https://github.com/bradfitz/talk-yapc-asia-2015/blob/master/talk.md?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Extensive notes and code from a talk given by Brad Fitzpatrick at YAPC::Asia. Brad Fitzpatrick [Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO, & JPMorgan](http://www.toptal.com/developers?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=cpm-newsletter&utm_content=freelanceWithCompanies&utm_campaign=go) Work with top clients, set your own rates, and work from anywhere as an elite Toptal Go developer. Join the most exclusive network of top software engineers in the world. Toptalsponsored[![\](http://assets.toptal.io/uploads/blog/image/576/toptal-blog-image-1410449667678.png)](http://www.toptal.com/developers?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=cpm-newsletter&utm_content=freelanceWithCompanies&utm_campaign=go) [Roger: A Library to Access 'R' from Go](http://www.senseye.io/announcing-roger-a-library-providing-simple-access-to-r-from-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Roger is a Go-based [RServe](https://rforge.net/Rserve/) client which allows R code to be integrated with Go apps. If you’re not familiar with R, it’s very popular in the graphical statistics field. Senseye [Calling Go Shared Libraries From Firefox Addons](http://id-rsa.pub/post/go15-calling-go-shared-libs-from-firefox-addon/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Go 1.5 can build shared libraries that [can be called](http://www.darkcoding.net/software/building-shared-libraries-in-go-part-1/) using the C ABI. This looks at how you can call such Go-built libraries from Firefox. Alex Zorin [Build Native Libraries in Go to Use From Ruby with FFI](http://c7.se/go-and-ruby-ffi/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Go 1.5 can produce shared libraries that can be used directly from Ruby using FFI. This gives Rubyists another language with which to build native libraries. Peter Hellberg [Dkron: A Distributed, Fault Tolerant Job Scheduling System](http://dkron.io/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A service that runs scheduled jobs at given intervals or times, a la cron but can be distributed across a cluster. Open source and written in Go. Victor Castell In Brief [The New Go 1.5 Vendor Handling](http://engineeredweb.com/blog/2015/go-1.5-vendor-handling/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Matt Farina [Unexpected String to Byte Casting Behavior Found in 1.5](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12226?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news GitHub [Publish Your Go Binaries on GitHub with CircleCI](https://medium.com/@jgautheron/publish-your-golang-binaries-in-github-with-circleci-e0b64cb21bf8?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jonathan Gautheron [Cross Compilation with Go 1.5](http://dave.cheney.net/2015/08/22/cross-compilation-with-go-1-5?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Some pointers on cross compiling with Go 1.5. Dave Cheney [Working with Files in Go](http://devdungeon.com/content/working-files-go?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial DevDungeon [The Business Benefits of Building Your Next Project With Go](https://medium.com/@shift8creative/the-business-benefits-of-building-your-next-project-with-go-ebed4bbc3ed7?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Tom Maiaroto [Real-time Image Resizing as a Service](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_campaign=2015-08-go-newsletter) tools Resize, crop, and process images at scale and in real-time with imgix. Get up to speed quickly with the community-built Go package. Imgixsponsored [gopy: Generate CPython Extension Modules From A Go Package](https://github.com/go-python/gopy?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools go-python [gb 0.1.0 Released: The Alternative Build Tool for Go](http://getgb.io/news/gb-version-0.1.0-released/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools news “The headline feature of the 0.1 series is support for cross compilation.” Dave Cheney [Sublime Text 3 for Go Docker Container](https://github.com/jgautheron/dockerfiles/tree/master/sublime-text-go?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Get started quickly with this Docker container of Sublime Text 3 prepared for Go development. Jonathan Gautheron [Cloud-Scale Performance Monitoring Made Easy](http://dtdg.co/1UaT3Wa?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Submit custom metrics from your Go applications using the ExpVars library. Begin your Datadog trial today. Datadogsponsored [MailSlurper 1.6 Released: SMTP Mail Server for Local/App Dev Use](http://mailslurper.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code Adam Presley [gomr: MapReduce in Go using etcd and S3](https://github.com/turbobytes/gomr?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code etcd is a distributed consistent key-value store for shared configuration and service discovery. TurboBytes [bongo: Elegant Static Site Generation with Go](https://github.com/gernest/bongo?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Geofrey Ernest [Go Starter Kit: Isomorphic React App Boilerplate](https://github.com/olebedev/go-starter-kit?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code A quick starter kit for building single page apps with React and a Go-based server side API and rendering. Oleg Lebedev    

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