Applied Go

Fighting cross-site request forgery (CSRF) becomes easier in Go 1.25, thanks to the new cross origin protection feature.

Go's templates allow defining custom functions for use inside the template. Nice, but type safety gets overboard. Are they still worth using?

Letting an LLM code some tool in Go can be nice, especially when it uses tools via MCP. But there are some risks involved.

I would have called them modest pointers. They are unobtrusive and don't leave any garbage behind.

You might feel powerless in the face of recent and upcoming disruptions. Think twice: Your Go skills are your secret weapon.

RTFM! But what if the CLI tool has no man page? Make your users happy by providing a manpage alongside your CLI app.

Good conventions make reading, sharing, and talking about code much easier.

Learning how the world works keeps you from having to blindly