#603 — May 29, 2026 |
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Go Weekly |
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Generic Methods Land in Go — Back in January, one of Go’s co-creators proposed bringing generic methods to Go (rather than just functions) and now he tells us: “This has been implemented and documented.” The functionality is behind Robert Griesemer |
AI Engineering Fundamentals with Scott Moss of Netflix — Learn to build reliable AI features. Build an AI-assisted Excalidraw app, set up eval harnesses, master context engineering, and ship agents that actually work. Frontend Masters sponsor |
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Migrating from Go to Rust — The author admits he’s “not a fan of Go” and argues the Go-to-Rust case, while still spending a lot of time conceding what Go does better. His honest framing makes his technical points, of which there are many, land a little harder. Matthias Endler |
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🤖 Claude as Your Performance Analysis Partner — An engineer put Claude to work on Go’s Green Tea GC, spotting atomic-op bottlenecks in Archana Ravindar (Red Hat) |
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Tracing HTTP Requests with Blain Smith |
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The Go Language Server Can Do Some Impressive Code Navigation — gopls finding its way around Go code is unremarkable. Chris was more impressed by where else it could dig. Chris Siebenmann |
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Give Your Agent a DB for Every Task — "Databases were long-lasting infra. Now I spin one up for an afternoon and kill it when done. Feels wasteful. It's not." Ghost sponsor |
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📄 How My Minimal, Memory-Safe Go rsync Steers Clear of Vulnerabilities – An audit of how a minimal Go 📄 The Gentlemen Ransomware: Dissecting a Self-Propagating Go Encryptor – A teardown of a Garble-obfuscated ransomware-as-a-service. Microsoft 📄 That One Time I Used Go Panics for Flow Control – “Sometimes crime is the answer.” Chris Storey |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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gookit/color: Terminal Color Rendering Library — fatih/color is the go-to library for this, but Gookit’s take is a bit more maximalist supporting HTML-esque styling tags, 256 color, hex codes, as well as themes for certain types of output (e.g. debugging levels). Gookit |
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Stefan Maric |
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PgQue: A Pure SQL + PL/pgSQL Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue — A pure SQL-based, zero-bloat queuing system for Postgres that's more similar to Kafka than a typical job queue. It has a Go driver which now includes support for cooperative consumers, so multiple workers can share one logical consumer cursor and drain workloads in parallel. Nikolay Samokhvalov |
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😄 And one for fun… |
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Figurine: A Go App to Print Your Name in Style — A bit of fun to close the issue. Might be something nice to use in your dot files or scripts. Amazingly it comes with 276 fonts ready to go. Arsham Shirvani |



