#214 — June 7, 2018
Golang Weekly
Using Go for 'Industrial' Programming — From a talk at GopherCon EU, Peter offers some excellent advice around foundational items, such as code structure, goroutine lifecycle management, and context use and misuse.
Peter Bourgon
Pigo: A Pure Go Face Detection Library — Based upon an approach called Pixel Intensity Comparison-based Object (PICO) detection, explained in this paper.
Endre Simo
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Learning Go’s Concurrency Through Illustrations — An excellent primer on goroutines and channels using whimsical animations.
Trevor Forrey
Go Vanity URLs: Use A Custom Domain in Your Go Import Path — If the news that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub has you worried, maybe it’s time to make your Go packages available from your own domain? This tool by Google makes it simple to set up and manage. gopkg is another hosted solution.
Google Cloud Platform
An Exploration of Go Memory Management — An overview of the various ways in which you can manage memory from Go and how Go’s allocator works.
Povilas Versockas
What is Software Engineering? — The latest followup in Russ Cox’s series on versioning in Go briefly touches on how Go’s design decisions are typically motivated by software engineering concerns.
Russ Cox
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Type-Unsafe Pointers in Go — Using unsafe pointers can help write better code in some (rare) cases, but it’s very easy to introduce hard-to-detect errors. You better read this before you start.
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Why Doesn't Go Have Variance in Its Type System?
Axel Wagner
Backing Up GitHub and GitLab Repositories Using Go — In case, for some reason, you want to backup your repositories..
Amit Saha (Linux Journal)
How time.Sleep Works in the Go Runtime
Ian Lance Taylor
eBook: How to Refactor a Monolithic Codebase Over Time
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🔧 Tools & Code
GolangCI-Lint: A Linter Runner/Aggregator for Go — Configurable. Colored output. Claims to be 5x faster than gometalinter.
Denis
ZSocket: Zero-Copy Sockets for Linux in Go
Nathan Sweet
githubv4: Go Client Library for GitHub's GraphQL API v4
Dmitri Shuralyov
Blush: It's 'grep', But With Colors — A command-line utility that allows you to specify the colors of each match.
Arsham Shirvani
jp: Simple Terminal Plots From JSON (or CSV) Data — Bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, histograms and more.
Sergey Grebenshchikov
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consulacl: Go Library for Working with Consul ACLs
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Gobot 1.11 Released: A Go-Powered Robotics Framework — Updates to the newest go-sdl2 package, and now supports the XBox 360 Rock Band drum controller and the T-Flight Hotas X flight controller.
Ron Evans