Go 1.26 Release Candidate 2 Released — Go 1.26 gets a little closer to its final release in a few weeks with a fresh release candidate including several security fixes in areas like archive/zip and Request.ParseForm. "Run it in dev! Run it in prod! File bugs!" says the Go team. The draft release notes remain a good way to get up to speed, as does Anton Zhiyanov’s Go 1.26 interactive tour.

Junyang and Michael for the Go team

Give Us Your Tired, Your Restless, Your Micromanaged, Yearning to Build Freely 🗽 — Fluidstack is hiring across 50+ infrastructure and engineering roles across the country. If you want to drive deployments for frontier labs, experience real autonomy, and build the AI infrastructure our future will rely on, check out all our open positions. 🚀

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Are Atomic Operations Faster & Better Than a Mutex? It Depends — While atomic operations can be significantly faster than mutexes, that speed comes with trade-offs in complexity and correctness that often make mutexes the better choice.

Benjamin Cane

Writing Mutexes From Scratch in Go — Experimenting with other options to implement locks that are lower level than just relying on sync.Mutex.

Chris Rybicki

Stop Overthinking Struct Pointer and Value Semantics in Go — When creating a struct type, you can face decisions about whether to use value or pointer semantics. Rather than debating this case-by-case, why not establish a convention?

Preslav Rachev

godump 1.9: A Pretty-Printer and Debug Dumper for Structs — Inspired by a similar feature in Laravel, this library lets you print structs, slices, maps, and more, in an easy to read fashion at the terminal. v1.9 adds optional field retraction, but other recent releases have added other niceties like diff support, HTML output, and a builder-style API for heavy customization.

Chris Miles

Notify 1.5: Send Notifications to Various Messaging Services — Supports about thirty different services including Discord, AWS SES and SNS, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Telegram.

Niko Köser

How Teams Add Leverage to Their Kubernetes Environments — If k8s isn’t your product, why treat it like one? Learn what to own, what to outsource, and how to stay in control.

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libgodc: A Go Runtime for the Sega Dreamcast — The Dreamcast, released in 1999, was Sega’s last truly innovative console (with a whole 16MB of RAM and a 200MHz CPU!) and, amazingly, you can now build things for it with Go, complete with support for goroutines, channels, garbage collection, etc. The project even includes some games as examples, such as a Pong clone. There’s extensive documentation too.

Panagiotis Georgiadis et al.

go-astiav: ffmpeg Bindings for Go — The goal is to provide a more idiomatically Go API for FFmpeg’s various multimedia features. Now supports FFmpeg 8.

Quentin Renard

parse-dmarc: A Lightweight, Self-hosted DMARC Report Parser — DMARC is an email authentication standard used, in part, to prevent email address spoofing. There are numerous services that can collect and collate DMARC reports for you, but this gives you a single binary solution complete with a Vue-powered frontend.

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