TLWI Golang

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Hello Code Sapiens,

Grab a cup of coffee, a cozy spot, and get ready to unravel this week's golang mysteries with your trusty newsletter!

Did you ever experience that 'If I knew then, what I know now' moment with Go packages? Well, I did and trust me, it changes the game! I'm about to spill the beans and share with you (drumroll please...) my top 3 Go packages that I wish I'd known about earlier. With these packages at your disposal, you'll be writing Go code like a pro in no time.

Next up, we've got one of those 'program goblins' that just likes to mess with your peace of mind. Have you ever asked yourself in frustration, "Why is this printing twice?" You're not alone and I'm here to shed some light on this mischievous phenomenon and help banish this goblin back to the underworld it came from.

If you're curious about the intricate workings of generic functions with maps in Golang, you're in for a treat! This week, we dive headfirst into a juicy question about the behavior of generic functions with maps in Golang. Get ready for an action-packed adventure that'll deepen your understanding of the subject.

The world of Golang doesn't just revolve around coding and debugging, there's a fine art to it as well. Do you ever find yourself wondering if you need to drain a buffered channel after closing it? I did too and I went on a quest to find the answer. Tune in to my insights and let's explore together if we need to drain a buffered channel after closing it?

In our bonus round this week, we're going to talk about React. You heard it - React with go templ! But wait, there's a twist. Enter HTMX - the better alternative. Don't believe me? Set your expectations high, as we're about to take you on a thrilling ride navigating Using React (HTMX is better) with go templ.

Get ready, sit back and let's dive deep into these exclusive insights together in this week's newsletter. Remember, knowledge shared is knowledge multiplied, so don't forget to share your thoughts and experiences!

Until next week, Happy Coding!

Your Go Guru

Dennis

Our Article Picks

Ege Aytin: Microservices Authentication and Authorization Using API Gateway
Marcus Kohlberg: Refactoring a Request/Response based Go backend into Event-Driven using Pub/Sub
Marcus Kohlberg: Using Clerk to authenticate users in a Go backend
Andy Jessop: Building a Basic HTTP Server in Go: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Vic Shóstak: 🤓 My top 3 Go packages that I wish I'd known about earlier
Panchanan Panigrahi: Deep Dive into Multistage Dockerfile with a Golang App ⚙️🚢
xuri: Excelize 2.8.1 Released - Powerful open-source library for spreadsheet (Excel) document
Nik L.: When To Not Use Pointers in Golang?
Egregors: PassKey in Go
Aurélie Vache: Understanding Go: part 3 – If
Manav Kushwaha: Learning Microservices With Go(Part 5). Asynchronous Communication. (Kafka)
Norbert Fuhs: What is Go 2024 Edition
Erick Takeshi: Injeção de dependência em Go
Chig Beef: Creating An Ending (Cosplore Pt:22)
Sukma Rizki: Http Request Form Data at Golang
Samuel Luiz: Building an interpreter in Go: Lexical Analysis
sago35: Create Your Own Keyboard with sago35/tinygo-keyboard
Jorge Contreras: Concurrency in Go
Harutyun Mardirossian: Property based testing in Go
Dave Smith: One Billion Row Challenge: way more than I thought
Code Monk: Ergonomic Trees in Go
Sukma Rizki: Pointer Deployment in Golang
juricake: DynamoDB client for Go
Stefan Alfbo: White box and Black box testing in Go
Stefan Alfbo: go test <package>
Egemen Göl: Introducing Spread - Ergonomic PubSub/EventBus in Golang
Chig Beef: Creating Fire Soundtracks (Cosplore Pt:23)
Andy Jessop: Starting Out with Go: Understanding Concurrency Basics
Leandro Ayala ®: Go Practice (official Doc)
Abhik Banerjee: Modelling your Data Layer in Go
Kiswono Prayogo: Writing UDF for Clickhouse using Golang
Chig Beef: Broken Rocket Launcher (Cosplore3D Pt:24)
Answer.dev: Answer 1.2.5 is Ready
Mat: Don't pay for a Content Management System. Build your own
Max Kovalevskii: A new learning way on how to write "Hello, World!" program in Go [video]
UponTheSky: [Go] Understanding net/http - How to run a server like a Pro?
Tanishq Singla: Handling config files in go
are_you_garabage_or_am_i: Using React(HTMX is better) with go templ
Mat: Connecting local apps to remote servers. An advance Go guide.

Our Repo Picks

ollama/ollama (Go): Get up and running with Llama 2, Mistral, Gemma, and other large language models.
XTLS/Xray-core (Go): Xray, Penetrates Everything. Also the best v2ray-core, with XTLS support. Fully compatible configuration.
TwiN/gatus (Go): ⛑ Automated developer-oriented status page
SagerNet/sing-box (Go): The universal proxy platform
ethereum/go-ethereum (Go): Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
qax-os/excelize (Go): Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX) spreadsheets
gptscript-ai/gptscript (Go): Develop LLM Apps in Natural Language
fleetdm/fleet (Go): Open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams. (Linux, macOS, Chrome, Windows, cloud, data center)
redis/go-redis (Go): Redis Go client
nats-io/nats-server (Go): High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.
stefanprodan/podinfo (Go): Go microservice template for Kubernetes
go-gitea/gitea (Go): Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
gin-gonic/gin (Go): Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.
go-kratos/kratos (Go): Your ultimate Go microservices framework for the cloud-native era.
aquasecurity/trivy (Go): Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
trufflesecurity/trufflehog (Go): Find and verify credentials
kubernetes/kubernetes (Go): Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
grafana/loki (Go): Like Prometheus, but for logs.
opencontainers/image-spec (Go): OCI Image Format
zeromicro/go-zero (Go): A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity.
gogf/gf (Go): GoFrame is a modular, powerful, high-performance and enterprise-class application development framework of Golang.
ccfos/nightingale (Go): An all-in-one observability solution which aims to combine the advantages of Prometheus and Grafana. It manages alert rules and visualizes metrics, logs, traces in a beautiful web UI.
EndlessCheng/codeforces-go (Go): 算法竞赛模板库 by 灵茶山艾府 💭💡🎈
linkerd/linkerd2 (Go): Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.
hybridgroup/gocv (Go): Go package for computer vision using OpenCV 4 and beyond.

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