Daily Golang Issue #6 (2024-08-19)

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⚡️ Latest

Here are the newest blog posts, videos, and projects from the Go community and all around it.

• GopherCon UK published recordings of talks from the latest conference
  • 📹 The Business of Go - Cameron Balahan, Google
  • 📹 Debugging Go Applications - Matt Boyle, Cloudflare
  • 📹 Understanding the Go runtime, Jesús Espino, Mattermost
  • 📹 Boost application performance with profile guided optimization Michael Pratt, Google
  • 📹 AI is coming for your job - Adam Scholey, Benefex
  • 📹 Improving your code craft with generative AI - Liam Hampton, Microsoft
  • 📹 Decoding AI: A Go Programmer’s Perspective - Beth Anderson, BBC
  • 📹 Event Driven Workflows - Andrew Wormald, Luno
• 📝 GopherCon UK 2024 by Jamie Tanna
• 🛠️ TreeGen
  • ASCII Tree to Directory and File Structure Generator
• 🛠️ dasel
  • Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files with a single tool. Supports conversion between formats and can be used as a Go package.

🧭 Discoveries

Here is the list of discovered interesting blog posts, videos, and projects that are worth checking out.

📝 Blog Posts

• Safer Enums in Go
  • This post explores how to implement safer enums in Go, providing strategies to avoid common errors associated with enums and ensuring type safety in your code.
• Random testing in Go by John Arundel
• Sign in with Google in Go
  • This post walks you through implementing Google OAuth authentication in a Go application. It covers setting up OAuth credentials, integrating with Google’s API, and handling user sign-ins securely within your Go projects.
• Building an interactive shell in Golang
  • The author provides a guide to creating an interactive command-line shell in Go. The post covers topics like handling user input, executing commands, and managing the shell’s environment, offering a practical approach to building robust CLI tools.

📹 Videos

• Julia Ogris - Building a Beginner’s Programming Language with Go | GopherConAU 2023
• Why Golang + HTMX Is The Most Productive Stack
• Keynote - Go: the language of dreamers / Derek Parker
• A REAL usecase of Golang Go Routines! - Golang Concurrency Example

🛠️ Projects

• sirupsen/logrus
  • Logrus is a structured, pluggable logging library for Go, designed to provide a flexible logging framework that supports various output formats and hooks.
• fergusstrange/embedded-postgres
  • Embedded Postgres allows running a real Postgres database locally as part of another Go application or test, providing a simple way to include Postgres in your development environment.