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...
New And Improved Formula! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-07-20
New And Improved Formula! Hi , In this corner: JSON, the champion of sloppy data constructs. In the opposite corner: Go, the guardian of rigid data...
Don't Mess With My Site! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-07-13
Don’t Mess With My Site! Hi , There are myriad ways of attacking a web app, and cross-site request forgery is a particularly perfidious way of hijacking an...
(Don't) Leave No Trace • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-07-06
(Don't) Leave No Trace Hi , Logs and traces are nice and useful ... until they start filling your disks. It would be much better to capture only the...
Know Your (CPU) Limits! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-06-29
Know Your (CPU) Limits! Hi , Living beyond one's means is rarely a smart move. But it's easy to get their if you aren't aware of your limits. Go apps have...
Go Before You Wait • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-06-22
Go Before You Wait Hi , The smallest improvements are sometimes the best, as in the sync package that receives a new WaitGroup method in Go 1.25. The new...
Inside The Bubble • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-06-15
Inside The Bubble Hi , First of all, I'm terribly sorry for publishing this issue late. The weekend was super hot over here, and I wasn't able to concentrate...
Own Your Errors! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-06-08
Own Your Errors! Hi , It's over. The discussions, the stream of proposals, the flame wars on social media about Go's error handling—or, more precisely, how...
Stop Splitting Atoms • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-06-01
Stop Splitting Atoms Hi , Have you used the sync/atomic package yet? Yes, this low-level synchronization package whose documentation recommends using...
Go, Browser—You Have To Talk! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-05-25
Go, Browser—You Have To Talk! Hi , How do you add a web UI to your Go application? The classic approaches are: Write a rich client with heavy use of...
A Picture Is Worth More Than 20 Lines Of Code • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-05-18
A Picture Is Worth More Than 20 Lines Of Code Hi , I'm sure you've been through this one or more times: You try to explain something. You have a clear...
Tupper's Formula • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-05-11
Tupper's Formula: A formula that calculates itself as a bitmap image Hi , How about an entertaining detour into mathematics? No worries, it won't get too...
Have Another Cup Of Tea • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-05-04
Have another cup of tea Hi , Go isn't quite dead yet. In fact, it's quite to the contrary, as a JetBrains report and a statistic evaluation by...
The Attack You Invited • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-04-27
The Attack You Invited Hi , Untested code should be generally regarded as insecure, and the absence of *_test.go files in a repository or integration and...
Write, Build, Love, Repeat • The Applied Go Weekly Newsleetter 2025-04-20
Write, Build, Love, Repeat Hi , Programming languages can be like a virus. Some cause a short fever that quickly vanishes, some may infect your for a...
