From Slow To Go • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-12-07
From Slow To Go Hi , What's your most-loved feature of Go? I have quite a few, but there is one that has repeatedly made a difference after switching to Go:...
Mechanical Sympathy • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-11-30
Mechanical Sympathy Hi , There are two things in Go that probably don't grab a newcomer's immediate attention: The mechanics of heap allocation and data...
Map it, Reduce it, Buffer it, Profile it • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-11-23
Map it, Reduce it, Buffer it, Profile it Hi , Processing large amounts of data within a short amount of time? This just cries for concurrency, or, more...
2^4 • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-11-16
2^4 Hi , Some weeks spill over with new blog posts, some not so much. I should be used to it from years of running this newsletter week by week. But this...
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Buil[d|t] To Learn • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-11-09
Buil[d|t] To Learn Hi , Sometimes, building a project is the best way to learn a particular topic. As a close second, inspect projects built by others to...
Go Faster With Green Tea • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-11-02
Go Faster With Green Tea Hi , Go's garbage collector has gone through a remarkable journey. In Go 1.5, the Go team implemented a tri-color concurrent...
Practice Best Practices • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-10-26
Practice Best Practices Hi , Hey, psst! Wanna have some tips for writing better Go? Here you are: Two articles about enhancing your coding, one about making...
Handmade With Love • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-10-19
Handmade With Love Hi , I'm sending a "small" issue to you this time—no Spotlight in here. I decided to pick up my work on the Minimalist SaaS Lab series,...
Literate Scripting • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-10-12
Literate Scripting Hi , A compiled language usually isn't designed to be a good scripting language. Go isn't either, but projects like Mage, Yaegi, or...
The Cost Of (Avoiding) Dependencies • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-10-05
The Cost Of (Avoiding) Dependencies Hi , From custom SQL backends to time as a performance bottleneck: Another week of Go (and not-so-Go-ish) news. Enjoy!...
Enjoy The Flight! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-09-28
Enjoy The Flight! Hi , Q4 has begun, and the Applied Go Weekly Newsletter isn't quite dead yet. Au contraire, mon ami, I am busy optimizing my workflow to...
Where Code Bloat Goes To Die • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-09-21
Where Code Bloat Goes To Die Hi , Small is beautiful! This is true for code, too. The less code you have, the less maintenance you have to do. To prove that...
Never Get Bored With The Basics • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-09-14
Never Get Bored With The Basics Hi , Are you ready for a journey? I am planning to do a Spotlight series about building a basic SaaS platform for...
Why Go Is A Minimalist Language • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-09-07
Why Go Is A Minimalist Language Hi , The world isn't simple. Every day, we have to deal with all sorts of complexity around us. Nothing wrong with that: Life...
So you don't like Go? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-08-31
So You Don't Like Go? Hi , Awww, the 2nd issue after the summer break! I wanted to use the break for streamlining and automating my newsletter editing...
Handle With Care • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-08-24
Handle With Care Hi , It's been a crazy one and a half weeks for me, and this issue has taken much too long to complete (piece by piece, step by step). But...
Commit Messages That Write Themselves
Commit Messages That Write Themselves Hi , The final 🌴 Summer Break 🌴 issue is in your inbox! With this issue, I'm concluding the AI series and looking...
Blue Gopher Meets Stochastic Parrot • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-08-10
Blue Gopher Meets Stochastic Parrot Hi , Geez, the previous Spotlight was a bit long and code-heavy (for a Spotlight), wasn't it? Even though this newsletter...
You're Lucky: Full Moon Tonight! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-08-03
You're Lucky: Full Moon Tonight! Hi , This is the second of four 🌴 "Summer Break" 🌴 issues with reduced content. As you may have guessed when you read the...
Let's Ask An LLM • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-07-27
Let's ask an LLM Hi , This newsletter is in 🌴 Summer Break Mode 🌴 until August 24th, which means reduced content, and I decided to take the opportunity to...