~golangweekly | Issue 529 - Awesome Go gets even more awesome (12)

yq: Portable CLI YAML, JSON and XML Processor — jq is a popular tool for working with JSON from the command line – yq takes a similar idea to even more formats. Plus it's built in Go!

Awesome Go: Almost 3000 Categorized Go Resources — A perennially useful resource that continues to get frequent updates (almost non-stop), and well worth revisiting in this quiet week for Go. You can contribute projects of your own to the list too.

Writing Benchmarks: Performance Testing in Go — A handy article that lays out all that’s possible with Go’s benchmarking tests. After reviewing the tool’s myriad parameters, Willem provides a full repo-backed example to show it off in action.

▶  🤖 Exploring AI-Powered Solutions with Ollama and LangChain Go — Ollama is used to run open source large language models locally and LangChain Go makes it easy to build Go-powered apps that lean on such LLMs.

Why Go Developers Should Try Odin — Odin is a lesser known but well featured programming language that the author says is part Go and part ‘features you wished Go had’. It’s worth having on your radar even if you don’t adopt it.

'Jia Tanning' Go Code — 'Jia Tan' here refers to essentially ‘backdooring’ a codebase with code that appears to be test code but isn’t, by the use of sneakily formatted filenames.

Fuzz Testing Go HTTP Services — You can’t possibly test all of the potential inputs your app could get, so why not let your computer bombard your service and see where things break?

Free Course: Temporal 101 with Go — 🎓 Join this course to learn the basics of Temporal and use Temporal’s Go SDK to build an app that communicates with an external service.

ListMonk 4.0: Self-Hosted Newsletter and Mailing List Manager — If you don’t want to pay to use a hosted newsletter system, how about a one binary Go solution? v4.0 is a major upgrade introducing multi-user management and auth features (including OIDC), support for CC and BCC headers, syntax highlighting in email HTML, and more. GitHub repo.

go-graphviz: Go Bindings for Graphviz — Graphviz is a popular open source graph visualization toolkit and this library lets you use it from Go by way of a cross-platform friendly WebAssembly build. You can now encode/decode DOT notated graphs and render them to SVG or PNG without needing to install Graphviz itself on your system.

Viddy 1.2: A Modern Go Alternative to watch — viddy can execute commands on a periodic basis but you get niceties like ‘time travel’, attractive output, and paging. Plus a bit of A Clockwork Orange thrown in.

WorkOS: The Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS — WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible and easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes instead of months. It's trusted by hundreds of high-growth startups such as Perplexity, Vercel, Drata, and Webflow.