

Cup o' Go
Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad
Stay up to date with the Go community in about 15 minutes per week
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Dec 6, 2024 • 21min
One and two and three and four and proposals!
Go 1.23.4 and 1.22.10 releasedProposalsAccepted & implemented: testing: shuffle seed should be different when -shuffle=on and -count flag is setCLNew: cmd/vet: add check for sync.WaitGroup abuseAccepted: cmd/vet: warn about structs marked json omitemptyNew: runtime/mainthread: add mainthread.Do for mediating access to the main threadLightning Roundgithub.com/bitfield/qrand -- Quantum random numbersBlog post: I stan clearing maps, no cap by Phil Pearl
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Nov 23, 2024 • 1h 1min
🔏🇺🇸 The FIPS Episode including an interview with Alex Scheel
This week Jonathan and Shay go deep into FIPS, cryptography, and security, and interview Alex Scheel about it as well!ProposalsGo moves toward FIPS-140🎚️ crypto: mechanism to enable FIPS mode #70123🎛️ proposal: cmd/go: add fips140 module selection mechanism #70200↪️ crypto/tls: add ConnectionState.CurveID #67516Community👮 Writing secure Go code by Jakub Jarosz🧳 r/golang - Who's hiring - November 2024Ad break🔗 Find all the links, including Patreon, on cupogo.dev.🤝 Follow us now on LinkedIn.🗼 KeepHQ! AIOps for the masses.Interview with Alex Scheelcipherboy~, Alex's siteFIPS 140-3 Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modulesthe cryptopals crypto challengesManage, store, and distribute sensitive data with OpenBao
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Nov 15, 2024 • 29min
🎂 ¡Feliz quinceañera a Golang! 🪅
🇩🇪 Hannover Go meetup, Nov 19🎂 Go Blog: Go Turns 15 📊 Video: The Business of Go by Cameron BalahanProposalsAccepted: End support for macOS 11 in go 1.25New discussion: Memory regions🗲 Lightning round🛞 Watermill 1.4: Event-Driven library for Go🛩️ Package singleflight provides a duplicate function call suppression mechanism.🧟 Creating a Brainrot Language Server in Golang by Jitesh Kumar SahooFollow us now on LinkedIn!
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Nov 8, 2024 • 1h 3min
🎆 70,000 Go issues, and still going strong, Terraform for Factorio, and John Crickett on learning without LeetCode
Go 1.23.3 and 1.22.9 releasedProposalsAccepted: 📂 Safer file open methodsLikely accept: Drop macOS 11 support for Go 1.25🎆 The Go project recently passed the 70,000 issues on GitHub, with net/http: short writes with FileServer on macos🇮🇹 GoLab tickets still available, Florence Italy, Nov 11-13Reddit: Is there a path forward for Go's yaml situation?Factorio RoundFactorio server managerFactoCordmapshotterraform-factorio-providerInterview with John CricketCoding ChallengesLinkedInYouTubeX/Twitter
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Nov 1, 2024 • 59min
🌳 Roots & Trees: OpenRoot, and Cedar to the rescue for access control
🪜 The Go Remote Meetup is looking for a new organizer. Step up!Interview with Wilken Rivera of the Go Developer Network, Episode 32ProposalsAccepted: add slog.DiscardHandlerPrevious discussion in Episode 80Accepted: enable GOCACHEPROG by defaultPrevious discussion in Episode 85📂 Likely accept: Safer file open functionsPrevoius discussion in Episode 66🏃 Active: Cache final output binaries for go run🌩️ Lightning RoundBlog post: Optimising and Visualising Go Tests Parallelism: Why more cores don't speed up your Go tests by Robert Laszczak🧶 Plushies as Code: Gopher crochet pattern by Alcione Ribeiro🌳 Interview with Justin McCarthy of StrongDMStrongDMCedar Languagecedar-go on GitHubRego policy languageZanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization SystemCedar BlogContact Justin by email at justin@strongdm.com
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Oct 25, 2024 • 1h
Improved Go cache interaction coming in 1.24? Plus extended discussion on technical writing
IRL Go meetings🇫🇮 Helsinki Go meetup, Nov 6🇦🇺 GopherConAU, Nov 6-8ProposalsLikely accept: enable GOCACHEPROG by defaultBlog postsTwo common Go interface misuses by Konrad ReicheMocks Aren't Stubs by Martin Fowler🌩️ Lightning RoundReddit FAQ: GUI Solutions for GomiQT, MIT-licensed Qt bindings for Go🧻 pgroll, Zero-downtime, reversible, schema migrations for Postgresburrow, Go database migration toolTechnical documentation discussionVale, brings code-like linting to prose✍️ write-like-a-pro🏊♀️ swimm.io
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Oct 18, 2024 • 25min
🏕️ BIG questions: "Is excel immortal?" and "Is Go the right choice for my startup?"
Happy Sukkot 🏕️! Find John & Shay at cupogo.dev, where you can find links to our Slack channel, Swag store, Patreon community, and the entire Cup o' Go episode archive.MeetupsGoUAE meetup, Oct 26Go LiepzigProposalsproposal: net/http: customize limit on number of 1xx responses (FInal Comment Period)CommunityIs Go the right choice for my startup?Lightning roundcopyloopvar issue: Detect loop vars unnecessarily passed as parameters to goroutines?psql-wire: PostgreSQL server wire protocol. Build your own server and start serving connectionsnew release: Excelize v2.9.0Is Excel immortal?
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Oct 11, 2024 • 45min
🌬️ Air, Windows, and Shelves; Promise this is about Go! Plus, Willem.dev talks freelance Go Web Development
News🧑🔧 Go 1.23.2 + 1.22.8 released, mostly backports of fixes ⏲️ High-Resolution Timers on Windows🌬️ New release for Air🔨 Interesting post about code shelf lifeInterview with WillemSite: https://www.willem.dev/Twitter: https://x.com/willemschotsLI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-schots/
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Sep 30, 2024 • 33min
🍯🍎 It's Rosh Hashana! (Replay) John Arundel's advice for those who aren't enjoying Go so much
No episode this week, as Shay's celebrating Rosh Hashana and John's moving countries. So enjoy this replay of our interview with John Arundel from episode 21 of the show!Interview with Go 👨🏫 teacher and 📚 author, John ArundelOn Twitter: @bitfieldOn LinkedIn: bitfieldconsultingWeb site: bitfieldconsulting.comVideo: Things in Go I Never Use by Mat RyerVideo: What is the best book to learn Go in 2023?
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Sep 27, 2024 • 41min
🐋🐋 Two Orcas swimming in a pod(cast); FDs, Aliases, and more with Maxim Vovshin
Join us at Orca Security! New roles for Go Developers opened, hand in your CV (and tell 'em Shay sent you :) )Backend DeveloperRuntime Security ResearcherAgent DeveloperDevOps EngineerProposals🕸️ cmd/compile: relax wasm/wasm32 function import signature type constraints"Types" in the WASM spec🍗 runtime: add a way to check if fd is used by go runtimerunC Escape Vulnerability CVE-2024-21626 write-upBlog Posts💾 Register allocation in the Go compiler🏷️ What's in an (Alias) Name?Lightning Round🧑✈️ Go Singleflight Melts in Your Code, Not in Your DB🚫 cmd/go: change go test to FAIL if -run is specified but no tests match📊 Felix Geisendörfer's bugfix for fgprof
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