~golangweekly | Bookmarks (186)

Garble: A Toolchain to Obfuscate Go Builds — Obfuscation doesn’t guarantee security but if you want your binaries to have “as little information about the original source code as possible,” Garble presents an option for Go 1.22+.

go-astiav: ffmpeg and libav Bindings for Go — The goal is to provide a more idiomatically Go API for FFmpeg’s various multimedia handling features. Works with FFmpeg 7 only.

A Small Mandelbrot Set Renderer in Go — A neat and tidy example of creating a simple fractal rendering engine in Go that can also be adapted to run on the Web via WebAssembly. GitHub repo.

Share Your Feedback in the Latest Go Developer Survey — It’s your latest chance to influence the direction of Go! The core team really pays attention to the results and is looking for insights into the challenges you have and improvements you want. Certainly worth a few minutes of your time.

The Frontend Masters Knowledge Quest Sale Is Going on All Week! — The Frontend Masters Knowledge Quest sale is now on! There's four new learning paths (including JS performance and code architecture) with more epic courses on the way throughout 2024 and beyond.

Don't defer Close() on Writable Files — This post dates from 2017 and there are ways to improve this now, but it provoked an interesting discussion on Hacker News today.

Sprig: 100+ Useful Template Functions for Go Templates — If you use text/template you might find this selection of template functions useful.

Kafka-Compatible Data Streaming That Reduces Costs and Ops Burden — Zero ops auto-scaling. Perfect provisioning. 10x cheaper than Kafka. Try WarpStream for free and get $400 in credits.

BadgerDB 4.3: A Fast, Embeddable Key-Balue DB in Go — Designed as a performant alternative to non-Go-based key-value stores like RocksDB. Docs.

hyrumtoken: A Package to Encrypt Pagination Tokens — For when you don’t want API clients to access unintended 'features' of your pagination related parameters, say.

µ micro: A Go-Powered Terminal-Based Text Editor — Aiming to be “somewhat of a successor to the nano editor”, Micro has been under development for several years and is a mature and good example of building a text editor in Go. GitHub repo.

GoForge: A CLI Tool to Streamline Go Project Initialization — Rather than manually creating files and directories to set up a project’s structure, GoForge provides a one-line alternative.

Go 1.23's New unique Package — The package’s purpose is to make comparing values more efficient by using deduplication to point to unique, canonical copies, a concept called interning. Some knowledge is required, but Michael walks through everything you need to know, including a practical example.

Tips for Building Bubble Tea Programs — Bubble Tea is a powerful Go framework for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs). Louis has spent a lot of time building PUG (a Terraform TUI) and shares the fruits of his experience here.

Slices in Go: Grow Big or Go Home — A deep dive into slices that focuses on how slices grow, something that can bite you right in the code when you don’t understand it. For example, do you know when (and why) a slice ends up on the heap (or not)?

Dumb Ways to Die: Random Values in Pointers — Storing non-pointer values in unsafe.Pointer is.. a Bad Idea™, but why? What happens? The journey and answer could help you better understand pointers and unsafe.

Mastering ISO 8583 Message Networking with Go — ISO 8583 is an interchange standard for card-based financial transactions (such as from a point-of-sale terminal or ATM).

Tunalog: A No-Install Blogging System Built in Go — With Markdown, theming support, and Web-based editing, Tunalog provides all a simple blog framework needs. It’s been two years in the making, but its creator is finally happy with it, and judging by the screenshots it’s pretty slick. It’s cross-platform and uses SQLite.

wp2hugo: A WordPress to Hugo Blog Migrator — Hugo is a popular Go-powered static site generator and this tool makes it easy to convert WordPress-powered blogs over to it, including lots of edge cases WordPress’s REST API doesn’t help with.

Range Over Function Types in Go 1.23 — Go 1.23 was released just two weeks ago with one of the headline features being improvements to iteration, principally for/range support over function types. There’s a lot more to it than that, though, and Ian rounds up everything, complete with examples and guidance.

sync.Pool and the Mechanics Behind It — What sync.Pool is all about, how it’s used, what’s going on under the hood, and everything else you might want to know, complete with helpful illustrations.

The 4-chan Go Programmer (or Sending Channels Over Channels) — No, not that '4chan.' Zach looks into the idea of using channels to pass other channels around, and takes it to the extreme of creating channels that channel channels that channel channels that channel channels. I need to go for a lie down..

TinyGo 0.33.0: The Go Compiler for 'Small Places' — TinyGo is a fantastic LLVM-based Go implementation targeting use cases like microcontrollers and WebAssembly. v0.33.0 brings it up to Go 1.23 standards, adds WASI preview 2 support, and more.