Issue #145: Go Newsletter Issue #145 — Go Weekly

Beautiful Packages in Go video

A great 20 minute talk from a recent London meetup covering best practices, goals, and helpful tips and tricks for writing packages people enjoying using.

Mat Ryer

Murlock: Build macOS Desktop Apps with Go and HTML code

A vaguely Electron-meets-React-esque approach but oriented around Go. A young framework but looks interesting.

Maxence Charriere

Go 1.8 Final Due Around February 14-16 news

It was initially coming out this week but some further testing within Google needs to take place first.

Brad Fitzpatrick

Free eBook: A Beginner's Guide to the Dockerfile

Download our free eBook and learn how to create a Dockerfile from scratch, how to push images to Docker Hub, and some Dockerfile best practices.

codeship sponsored

Fencing Off Go: Liveness and Safety for Channel-based Programming

A look at an academic paper describing a new tool built to analyse the liveness and safety of concurrent Go programs.

Adrian Colyer

Basic TCP/IP Networking from Go tutorial

A look at working at the TCP socket level from Go, complete with heavily annotated code examples.

Applied Go

3 Tips and 7 Tricks When Testing in Go tutorial

Things like avoiding global constants, using test fixtures, test helpers, and organizing mocks and helpers.

Povilas Versockas

Flappy Gopher: Building a Flappy Bird Clone video

A 40 minute live coding video following the development of a Flappy Bird-style game (but using our favorite gopher) using Go and SDL2.

JustForFunc

Comparing Elixir and Go opinion

A comparison of Elixir (an Erlang VM-based language with Ruby-esque syntax) and Go looking at their backgrounds, styles, and how both deal with concurrency.

Barry Jones

Golang/Backend Engineer @ Poki (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

From monolith to microservices, and all the impact around it. Join us building the ultimate online playground for kids of all ages.

Poki

Go Developer at Geckoboard (London, UK)

Come help us build our new data pipeline in Go. Great work/life balance, regular "innovation" days, and a team that <3 to learn!

Geckoboard

A 17 Hour, Online Go Video Course course

Learn Go from Todd McLeod, a compsci professor. The GOLANGWEEKLY code gives 78% (no affiliation, he just offered it for us to share).

Udemy

Why Are Slices Sometimes Altered When Passed by Value in Go? tutorial

Jon Calhoun

Communicating Between Go Apps using Redis Pub/Sub tutorial

Mehmet Cetin

[Webinar] 5 Tips on Determining the Most Impactful Metrics in Your App

This webinar, co-hosted by VividCortex and Datadog, explores best ways to monitor important performance metrics.

VividCortex sponsored

Whalebrew: Like Homebrew, But With Docker Images code

Creates aliases for Docker images so you can run them as if they were native commands.

Ben Firshman

Envh: Go Helpers to Manage Environment Variables code

Anthony Hamon

wifi: Access WiFi Device Actions and Statistics from Go code

Provides access to IEEE 802.11 WiFi devices on Linux (only, for now).

Matt Layher

Jennifer: A Code Generator for Go code

Dave Brophy

netlink: Low-Level Access to Linux Netlink Sockets code

Netlink sockets are used for IPC on Linux.

Matt Layher

raylib-go: Bindings for raylib, A Game Programming Library code

raylib is aimed at learning to create simple games.

Milan Nikolic

Robotgo: Desktop Automation on Mac, Windows and Linux code

Move the mouse and type on the keyboard from Go.

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Linode sponsored

Expreduce: An Experimental Computer Algebra System Written in Go code

Cory Walker

dithergo: Halftone Dithering Algorithms Implemented in Go code

Endre Simó

dewm: A Pure Go Auto-Tiling Window Manager Written with Literate Programming code

Dave MacFarlane

template-compiler: Compile 'text/template' / 'html/template' to Regular Go Code code

Still a work in progress.

github.​com