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Dave Cheney

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2025

Pop quiz: what time was it?original ↗
18 Dec 2025
Pointer pop quizoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2025

2024

Microblog: TestMain can cause one to question realityoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2024

2021

A few bytes here, a few there, pretty soon you’re talking real memoryoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2021

2020

The story of the one line fixoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2020
How to dump the GOSSAFUNC graph for a methodoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2020
Diamond interface composition in Go 1.14original ↗
24 May 2020
Fatih’s questionoriginal ↗
16 May 2020
Ensmallening Go binaries by prohibiting comparisonsoriginal ↗
9 May 2020
Mid-stack inlining in Gooriginal ↗
2 May 2020
Inlining optimisations in Gooriginal ↗
25 Apr 2020
go test -v streaming outputoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2020
Are large slices more expensive than smaller ones?original ↗
1 Mar 2020
The Zen of Gooriginal ↗
23 Feb 2020

2019

Dynamically scoped variables in Gooriginal ↗
8 Dec 2019
Internets of Interest #15: The Queen of the Skiesoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2019
Complementary engineering indicatorsoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2019
Internets of interest #14: UNIX v0original ↗
17 Nov 2019
Internets of interest: Warner Losh on the first ten years of UNIXoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2019
Use internal packages to reduce your public API surfaceoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2019
Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same typeoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2019
Don’t force allocations on the callers of your APIoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2019
Go compiler intrinsicsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2019
Clear is better than cleveroriginal ↗
8 Jul 2019
Sydney High Performance Go workshoporiginal ↗
5 Jul 2019
Constant Timeoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2019
The three Rs of remote workoriginal ↗
18 May 2019
Why bother writing tests at all?original ↗
14 May 2019
Prefer table driven testsoriginal ↗
7 May 2019
Absolute Unit (test)original ↗
3 Apr 2019
Internets of Interest #12: Testing Michael Feathers’ Patienceoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2019
Talk, then codeoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2019
You shouldn’t name your variables after their types for the same reason you wouldn’t name your pets “dog” or “cat”original ↗
29 Jan 2019
Eliminate error handling by eliminating errorsoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2019
Avoid package names like base, util, or commonoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2019

2018

Internets of Interest #11: Yesterday’s Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Altooriginal ↗
30 Dec 2018
The office coffee model of concurrent garbage collectionoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2018
Internets of Interest #10: Mike Harrison on the Eidophororiginal ↗
15 Nov 2018
Internets of Interest #9: Jason Scott on the Copyright Fury Roadoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2018
Internets of Interest #8: Todd Fernandez on the manufacturing of modern semiconductorsoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2018
Internets of Interest #7: Ian Cooper on Test Driven Developmentoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2018
Internets of Interest #6: Dave Cutler on Dave Cutleroriginal ↗
6 Oct 2018
Internets of Interest #5: Kate Gregory on Simplicityoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2018
Internets of Interest #4: Niall Murphy’s Polemic Against On-Calloriginal ↗
26 Sept 2018
Internets of interest #3: Adam Fletcher on Life of an Airline Flightoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2018
Internets of interest #2: John Ousterhout discusses a Philosophy of Software Designoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2018
Internets of interest #1: Brian Kernighan on the Elements of Programming Styleoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2018
Maybe adding generics to Go IS about syntax after alloriginal ↗
3 Sept 2018
Internets of interest #0: The future of Microprocessorsoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2018
Using Go modules with Travis CIoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2018
Taking Go modules for a spinoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2018
Slices from the ground uporiginal ↗
12 Jul 2018
How the Go runtime implements maps efficiently (without generics)original ↗
29 May 2018
Containers versus Operating Systemsoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2018
Go’s hidden #pragmasoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2018
If aligned memory writes are atomic, why do we need the sync/atomic package?original ↗
6 Jan 2018

2017

What Have We Learned from the PDP-11?original ↗
4 Dec 2017
Never edit a method, always rewrite itoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2017
Please, vote Yes for marriage equality in Australiaoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2017
Why I joined Heptiooriginal ↗
6 Sept 2017
I’m talking about Go at DevFest Siberia 2017original ↗
23 Aug 2017
The HERE IS keyoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2017
Context isn’t for cancellationoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2017
Typed nils in Go 2original ↗
9 Aug 2017
Should Go 2.0 support generics?original ↗
22 Jul 2017
How to find out which Go version built your binaryoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2017
Simplicity Debt Reduxoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2017
Simplicity Debtoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2017
Go, without package scoped variablesoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2017
If a map isn’t a reference variable, what is it?original ↗
30 Apr 2017
There is no pass-by-reference in Gooriginal ↗
29 Apr 2017
Understand Go pointers in less than 800 words or your money backoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2017
Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communicationsoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2017
RC2017/4: Introducing Arudino6502original ↗
9 Apr 2017
Retrochallenge 2017/04: 6502 on Arduinooriginal ↗
5 Apr 2017
Why Go?original ↗
20 Mar 2017
How to write a successful conference proposaloriginal ↗
12 Feb 2017
I’m speaking at GopherChina and GopherCon Singaporeoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2017
Context is for cancelationoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2017
The package level logger anti patternoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2017

2016

Never start a goroutine without knowing how it will stoporiginal ↗
22 Dec 2016
Thinking about $GOPATHoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2016
Declaration scopes in Gooriginal ↗
15 Dec 2016
Simulating minicomputers on microcontrollersoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2016
Go 1.8 toolchain improvementsoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2016
Do not fear first class functionsoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2016
Introducing Go 2.0original ↗
24 Oct 2016
IoT p0wnershiporiginal ↗
30 Sept 2016
Go 1.8 performance improvements, one month inoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2016
SOLID Go Designoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2016
Transistor logic fundamentalsoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2016
Automatically fetch your project’s dependencies with gboriginal ↗
26 Jun 2016
Gophers, please tag your releasesoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2016
Automatically run your package’s tests with inotifywaitoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2016
Stack traces and the errors packageoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2016
Test fixtures in Gooriginal ↗
10 May 2016
Don’t just check errors, handle them gracefullyoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2016
The value of TDDoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2016
Constant errorsoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2016
Go 1.7 toolchain improvementsoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2016
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