It Works. (But Why?) • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-05-17
It Works. (But Why?) Hi , In this week's featured articles, you can inspect the Go compiler, examine error handling gone wrong, and dissect a simple archive...
No More Excuses • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-05-10
No More Excuses Hi , All my true readers can skip the first featured article. You don't have to be convinced anymore! For everyone else, if you're still not...
Little Helper • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-05-03
Little Helper Hi , Black-and-white drawings can have a special charm, but drawing the world as black or white loses all the shades in between. The ongoing...
Not Magic • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-04-26
Not Magic Hi , I bet you've had this situation more than once: Something feels like magic, until you start looking closer, peeking under the hood, and...
Atom by Atom by Atom • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-04-19
Atom by Atom by Atom Hi , Ancient Greek philosophers assumed that matter cannot be infinitely divisible. In the 19th century, John Dalton discovered a...
Language Is (Ir)relevant • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-04-12
Language Is (Ir)relevant Hi , How time flies! It's two weeks since I asked you to help me shape the Go eBook I plan to offer while my courses are frozen due...
Over Night? Not Quite • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-04-05
Over Night? Not Quite Hi , Media loves overnight success. Something or someone unknown yesterday "suddenly" becomes a star. The truth is: there is no such...
Turning Insights into Pages • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-03-29
Turning Insights into Pages Hi , Maybe you have noticed that my courses Master Go and Concurrency Deep Dive can't be purchased anymore. This wasn't a...
A Bot In a Box • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-03-22
A Bot In a Box Hi , Since the beginning of March, I am testing Claude Code as a coding assistant. My newsletter is driven by a CLI tool that I bolted...
Migration, Light As A Feather • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-03-15
Migration, Light As A Feather Hi , Nothing lasts forever, including package APIs. Design concepts that seemed a smart choice initially expose more and more...
My newsletter DB is broken • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-03-08
Hi , No, the subject isn't about a story about repairing databases. It's a real problem: The database I use to collect articles and projects for each issue...
Faster, Smaller, Deeper • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-03-01
Faster, Smaller, Deeper Hi , From the beginning of programming, two goals never changed: high performance and low memory consumption (in main memory and on...
Perfect. • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-02-22
Perfect. Hi , This issue is about perfect things: The perfect tool to fix old code. Ten mantras for writing perfect code. And a perfect case for dumbing down...
If It Ain't Broken, Go Fix It! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-02-15
If It Ain't Broken, Go Fix It! Hi , The new go fix command of Go 1.26 should have really been named go polish or go beef-it-up. What go fix, you ask? Well,...
What Came First: The Token or The Egg? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-02-08
What Came First: The Token or The Egg? Hi , Imagine you write a specification, you pass it as input to a MACHINE, and the MACHINE spits out working code! I'm...
Test Your Contracts • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-02-01
Test Your Contracts Hi , I have a new Spotlight for you! For newer readers, I write occasional mini-articles for this newsletter. Today's spotlight discusses...
The Shift That Did Not Come (Yet) • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-01-25
The Shift That Didn't Come (Yet) Hi , The Go developer survey 2025 results are out, and one thing that caught my attention is how the Go community (or...
Hidden Gems • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-01-18
Hidden Gems Hi , How many times have you invoked go run, go build, go test and other Go tools? Every time, you can trust the toolchain to do its job....
2026 And Go 1.26 • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-01-11
2026 and Go 1.26 Hi , Welcome to 2026, and welcome back to The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter! Back from the winter break, let's look forward to Go 1.26 and...
Happy New Year (With Robotic Greetings) • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-01-01
Happy New Year (With Robotic Greetings) Hi , I know, I know, this newsletter is on winter break until Jan 11th! But I thought, why not send a new year's...
