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SnapPoint: A Hard Reset for Your Dev Machine

SnapPoint is a system auditor and a package manager manager. Its job is to understand what is installed on your machine, where it...

I Built a Go-Based ngrok Alternative With Zero Dependencies

Built a complete ngrok-like tunnel service in Go in one evening (~3.5 hours of focused coding time). Includes both client CLI and...

Generic interfaces: When to Use Them

As interfaces are types themselves, they too can have type parameters. This idea proves to be surprisingly powerful when it comes...

Go 1.25 is released - The Go Programming Language

Go 1.25 comes with improvements over Go 1.24 across its [tools], [compiler], [linker], and [standard library] There are also [port...

The Practical Way for Developers to Learn Algorithms

Many developers quietly assume Big-O and data structures are only for low-level specialists. Stacksmith is my experiment to dispro...

How to Build a Status Monitoring Service in Go

This tutorial walks through building StatusD, a self-hosted monitoring service in Go that reads monitored endpoints from JSON, pro...

Container-aware GOMAXPROCS: What it is and Why It's Important

Go 1.25 includes new container-aware `GOMAXPROCS` defaults. These defaults provide more sensible default behavior for many contain...

How to Build a Production-Ready Go Diagnostic Rule

Build and ship a production-ready Go diagnostic rule using go/analysis.

Go: The Testing/Synctest Package Explained

Go 1.25 introduces the `testing/synctest` package. This package can significantly simplify writing tests for concurrent, asynchron...

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Go Builds Packages, Not Files — Here’s Why That Matte...

Go Builds Packages, Not Files — Here’s Why That Matters

Go's build system isn't something to fight or work around. It's an API in its own right - one that rewards understanding.

Building a Better Debugging Experience: A Deep Dive into Capturing and Replaying...

Debugging microservices is hard because it's difficult to see the data flowing between them. We built a "Request Capture Engine" t...