To bot or not to bot? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-10-13
To Bot Or Not To Bot? Hi , LLMs are getting better every few months, and the discussions about the pros and cons enter a new round every time a new model is...
Beyond Paradigms • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-10-06
Did you ever try mentioning to functional programming purists that Go has some aspects of functional programming (specifically, functions as first-class...
Real time? What do you mean? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-29
"Go has garbage collection and therefore can never be considered a high-speed language." Um, wrong. Speed is relative, and Go is orders of magnitudes faster...
Brutalism • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-22
What's your preferred configuration language? YAML, JSON, TOML, or environment variables? Or do you suffer from a general configuration language allergy?...
Running in Circles • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-15
When I wrote this week's spotlight, these lines from Tears For Fears' song "Mad World" came to my mind: I find it hard to tell you 'Cause I find it hard to...
It's My Project And I Cry If I Want To • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-08
Contrary to my usual habits, I decided to include two projects in the Featured section that are the results of great personal dedication and persistence....
KISS. Because YAGNI. • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-01
Beware of over-engineering. Sometimes, a quick hack is sufficient. This week's spotlight describes an example: Instead of selecting a CLI command library and...
It's (not) magic • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-08-25
Magic can be wonderful. Shake a wand like a conductor of an orchestra and turn that impenetrable door into dust. Quaff a magic potion and gain enough...
One, two, three • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-08-18
This week, I struggled with a codebase that I hadn't touched for a while. What a mess! My brains worked hard to reconstruct how all the parts work together,...
Show me your API • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-08-11
Humans love to communicate, and likewise does the software they create. To communicate over a distance, humans use telephones, email, or text or video chat,...
Shut Up And Take My Telemetry Data! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-08-04
You know that a new Go release is coming when the number of release-specific articles spikes. This issue contains another article, another podcast, and a Go...
My Web App Stack? Go. • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-07-28
Go is said to be the language for backend infrastructure and CLI tools. Nevertheless, countless projects relentlessly work on establishing Go in other...
Bisecting FTW • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletetter 2024-07-21
Slowly, the newsletter gets out of summer break mode. The most surprising article of the week (for me) is Russ Cox's article about the new bisect tool, right...
Six repos • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-07-14
When it's rainy outside, or sunny, cloudy, hot, or cold—weather doesn't matter that much, honestly—, I sometimes think about the future of Go. Will AI code...
500 million • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-07-07
Summer Break! This is the first issue during the summer break. It's much smaller than usual, but I still managed to include some articles from this week....
Supply Chain Attack, Anyone? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-30
Have you heard of the Polyfill attack? Shortly after the Polyfill.js project and domain changed owner, the Polyfill servers injected malware into 100k+...
Tradition vs. Innovation - The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-23
Go's language specification is rock stable, compared to other languages (looking at you, C++!). The Go team is very careful about approving new features to...
Evolving backwards • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-16
The world is constantly evolving, no doubt! The question, however, is: in which direction? Mostly towards increasing complexity (see also last week's issue)....
It's not complex enough yet! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-09
Complexity is everyone's favorite, right? Of course not, but how come that systems, particularly software systems, always seem to tend towards increased...
Stacks that lurk in the shadows • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-02
Curiosity skills the cat! Usually, hardware speed improvements cannot be emulated by software on older hardware. Because without the new kind of hardware...