📣 The #GopherCon Call for Speakers is officially closed!
A huge thank you to everyone who submitted a talk proposal. We received 150+ submissions, and our Evaluation Committee is now diving into the review process.
Stay tuned as programming is expected to go live in early May.
#RoadToGopherCon
Congrats Jayme! I have a feeling this won't be the last time you land something that touches systems all over the world.
This one is pretty funny go.dev/issue/77934.
Turns out a struct used for Go ←→ Linux syscalls use int64 when Linux expects int32.
But by chance this can't cause a bug because:
1. it is the last field of the struct
2. the size of the struct doesn't change since C aligns int64 to 8 bytes on 32 bits
Less than 24 hours until the @gophercon.com call for speakers closes. I started editing my proposal, then remembered the German word "verschlimmbessern" (to improve something for the worse). Turns out it was already where it needed to be. Threw out the edits 👋🗑️
Excellent example of how a data race can produce a value that was never assigned. This is what undefined behavior can look like in practice: go.dev/play/p/HuIoL...
This is such a great example! I believe you can use wg.Go() to make it even more readable.
Very cool Go library from @dronnix.bsky.social. It implements a Black-White Array, an ordered structure with O(log n) operations but far fewer allocations than B-Trees. Cache-friendly and supports duplicates github.com/dronnix/bwarr
🎤 The #GopherCon stage is calling…
Dreaming of your mic drop moment? Just 2 weeks left to wow us with your #golang talk proposal!
Submit by March 4th 👇
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“Using go fix to modernize Go code” by Alan Donovan — https://go.dev/blog/gofix
#golang
It's conference talk proposal season again! In 2024 I had the privilege of reviewing 233 proposals as part of the GopherCon review committee. Most scored below 3/5, not because they were bad, but because they missed the critical piece. I wrote up what I learned: konradreiche.com/blog/what-go...
"That said, here is a neatly self-contained Go module for convenience."
A colleague shared this Go library that can redefine functions at runtime.
I assumed it was a joke.
It was not a joke.
I'm going to pretend I never saw this github.com/pboyd/redefine
I'm putting the finishing touches on the Staticcheck update for #golang 1.26. You can expect a release by the end of the week.
I feel you. I've had flights where all I wanted was to dig into an implementation on my phone but didn't have good tools for it. Also this post came to mind: buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...
If AI reduces manual coding, I suspect the frontier shifts toward AI-assisted reading.
#GopherConSG is back for 2026! Our next conference will take place on 20–22 May, and our #CFP is open right now! 💥 If you have #golang ideas to share, we're looking forward to hearing all about them! 🙋♀️🙋♂️
www.papercall.io/gopherconsg-...
Looks like @gophercon.sg is scheduled for May 20–22 🇸🇬 2026.gophercon.sg
I'd been feeling pretty good about leveling up my Vim refactoring skills with regex find/replace and :argdo. Then I wrote my first gopatch, applied it across the codebase, and there's no going back github.com/uber-go/gopa...
A Stuttgart Gophers coffee mug filled with coffee on a wooden desk by a window, with a cactus in the background.
Sitting at home in San Francisco, drinking coffee from a Stuttgart Gophers mug that was given to me at the @golab.io conference in Florence, Italy. I find this quite telling of how international the Go community is.
While I am quietly rooting for Framework laptops, I am genuinely surprised to see Lenovo embracing repairability again. ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 coming with a modular keyboard and USB C ports is not what I was expecting www.notebookcheck.net/Repairabilit...
Hi @antonz.org, good question!
Something like 'make([]byte, 0, 33)' does indeed create a slice with a capacity of exactly 33, as your example shows.
However, the underlying allocated heap object actually is larger.
Quick playground example that hacks things to print the heap object size:
PSA: go.sum is not a lockfile.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
Less "AI write my code" and more "AI show me where I'm slow": recording Vim keystrokes with vim -w, then analyzing them to find repetitive patterns and adopt better motions and commands.
Profiling Request Latency with Critical Path Analysis, @felixge.de @ GopherCon 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BayZ...
the Steve Balmer meme, but he’s shouting “agents! Agents! Agents!”, he has a red face and is sweating
I cannot think of a single thing that could possibly go wrong.
This Go memory allocation explanation is seriously awesome😍
nghiant3223.github.io/2025/06/03/m...
#golang
Accepted! Go 1.26 will include a SECRET package. Don't tell anyone about it 🤫
Just kidding. The package wipes the memory to keep secrets safe — hence the name.
antonz.org/accepted/run...
Amazon’s phrasing is “Designed to provide 99.999999999% durability …”
docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/lat...
Andy Warfield gave a pretty good explanation of what they do to achieve this.
youtu.be/sc3J4McebHE?...
11 nines of durability measured where? Serving-side?
