Twelve Go idioms I changed my mind about
Patterns I confidently recommended five years ago that I'd argue against today. The list of "things you used to do in Go that don't pay back anymore."
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iter.Seq — the pull iterator pattern in Go 1.23+
Range-over-function landed in Go 1.23. `iter.Seq` lets you write iterators that compose. The patterns that pay back; the ones that don't.
errgroup patterns for parallel agent dispatch
Fan out to N agents; first error cancels the rest; collect successful results. errgroup is the right tool for this; the patterns are concise but worth getting exactly right.
Twelve months of writing in public — what worked, what...
Reflections on a year of consistent technical writing. The post categories that compounded; the ones that didn't; what I'd tell someone starting out.
The recruiter test — what your repo says before the...
A recruiter spends 90 seconds on your GitHub before deciding to talk to you. What they're looking for; what makes them skip; what signals matter more than the README.
Twelve months of Genie in production — what survived,...
An honest retrospective on the open-source Genie project after a year. The patterns that held up; the ones we rebuilt; the code we deleted because it solved problems we didn't actually have.