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Logdy: A Web-Based Viewer for Logs — Web based real-time log viewer. Stream any content to a web UI with autogenerated filters, then parse any format with TypeScript. Live demo.

mactop: A Terminal Based Monitoring Tool for Apple Silicon — A Mac-specific htop-a-like that shows off real-time CPU and GPU usage, along with metrics about power and memory usage.

Nimble Terminal Charts: Charting for Bubble Tea — Provides a way to render bar, line, scatter, time series, and other charts with Bubble Tea. Lots of examples here.

v8go: Execute JavaScript from Go via V8 — If this feels familiar, it’s a fork of this main v8go project, but adding support for Android, newer versions of V8, JS symbols, and more.

Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2 — Generating random numbers takes much more than you might think. Go’s initial RNG has multiple flaws, but fixing it breaks repeatability requirements. So, the core team created a “version 2” package that keeps Go’s compatibility promise and sets forth principles for future such 'version 2' packages generally.

Secure Randomness in Go 1.22 — If you’re interested in how randomness has improved in Go recently, this is for you, as the authors dive more into the security requirements of some use cases, how Go was enabling insecure code, and how doing the ChaCha(Rand8) led to not only better, faster, more secure random number generation but also how “Go 1.22 makes your programs...

Borgo: A New Language That Compiles to Go — People on Hacker News got very excited about this! Borgo’s authors aim to create a language “more expressive than Go but less complex than Rust.” The result is more type safety and it's certainly worth a look.

Using Structs for Generic Argument Lists — The example compares running a new algorithm vs an old one, and comparing the results to ensure they have the same answer. Think of it as feature flags for testing refactorings, and how using structs + generics cleans the code up.

An Applied Introduction to EBPF with Go — We’ve linked to stories about eBPF a few times, and this article goes through the basics and two examples of using eBPF to measure resources, such as tracking packets.

GoWrap: CLI Tool for Generating Decorators for Interfaces — Provides a variety of templates to easily add metrics, tracing, fallbacks, pools, and other features into your existing code.

Awesome Ebitengine: A Curated List of Ebitengine Resources — Ebitengine is a popular, powerful 2D graphics and gamedev API for Go and this list is packed with games written with it, libraries to use with it, and more.

Sonic: A Newly Open Sourced Low Latency Network and I/O Library — Not to be confused with the eponymous blogging tool or JSON library, this Sonic is an asynchronous network and I/O library for Go, newly open sourced by a company specializing in trading infrastructure. “Sonic is an alternative to the net package. It removes the need to use multiple goroutines to handle multiple connections...

The Two Reasons I Prefer Passing Struct Pointers Around — When passing structs to functions, how do you decide whether or not to use a pointer? Preslav has some solid criteria inspired by the principles of domain-driven design that may give you a new, more maintainable approach.

Go is Not Java — If you're in the mood for a bit of a rant, this might scratch that itch. The post also contends that, per the creator of object orientation, Go may be even more OO than Java or C++.. (a topic David Wickes also wrote about recently).

Tokens for LLMs: Byte Pair Encoding in Go — Tokens are fundamental to LLMs, so understanding how they’re encoded and decoded can help you better understand how LLMs work too.

Gohalt: A General Purpose Throttling Library — You could use this to build throttling pipelines, rate limiters, etc. We’re digging the gopher logo on this one. Now with Go 1.22 support.

gorush: A Push Notification Server, Built on Gin — Supports APNS (Apple Push Notification Service), Firebase, and HMS Push Server (Huawei).

Gotenberg 8.5: Docker-Powered Stateless API for Creating PDF Files — A Go-powered system that offers a developer-friendly API for converting numerous document formats into PDF files. GitHub repo.

goread 1.6.5: A Terminal-Based RSS/Atom Feed Reader — Built using the Bubble Tea TUI framework. You can drop https://golangweekly.com/rss into it if you want to test it out ;-)

From Zero to Production: Go's Journey at Google — The author worked as an SRE at Google for nine years and shares some of the story of how he saw Go grow and be adopted there over its formative years. Some interesting background that I’ve not seen mentioned elsewhere.

Gnet 2.5: High-Perf, Non-Blocking, Event-Loop Networking Library — “Built from scratch by exploiting epoll and kqueue and it can achieve much higher performance with lower memory consumption than Go net in many specific scenarios.”

💎 Gemfast: A Drop-In 'Gem' Server for Ruby Developers — A new self-hosted Rubygems (Ruby’s package management system) server, written in Go for easier deployment, that lets Rubyists mirror and cache gems from official registries, as well as serve up their own private gems.

State Machines Simplified — Discover the simplicity and durability of Temporal, your solution to complex state machine challenges. Unlock efficiency now!