The World Is An Experiment • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-06-07
The World Is An Experiment Hi , Academic theories and models are a fundamental part of scientific research, but failing to test a theory against reality can...
Bulletproof • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-05-31
Bulletproof Hi , Make it work, make it robust, make it fast: The first is easy, the third is optional. Number two is underestimated until prod is down....
Is It Tuesday Again? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2026-05-24
Is It Tuesday Again? Hi , While the past weekend was longer than usual, due to a public holiday over here, it didn't give me a chance to complete this...
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...
