• Podcast: Within Reason with Hank Green
• Podcast: Within Reason with Vsauce
• Podcast: Acquired: Microsoft Volume I
• Favorite Cup o' Go episodes of 2025
  • May 17, Episode 110: Thanks, Ian. 🙏 Plus Kevin Hoffman talks about empathy and the joy of logging ⚡
  • May 23, Episode 111: Go gets audited, and Ian Lance Taylor talks about 19 years on the Go team
  • May 29, Episode 112: 🌁 Live from San Francisco, it's Cup o' Go! Elastic, Green Tea, and LLM toolboxes

• Go 1.26rc1 is out
• Book: Gist of Go: Concurrency by Anton Zhiyanov
• 😶 Blog: Go feature: Secret mode by Anton Zhiyanov
• Non-Go: Pixnapping
• 🧋 Accepted: Make all "bubbles" inherited across goroutines
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • 🥐 Bun v2 coming?
• 💉 Interview: Go dependency injection at Uber
  • uber-go/fx
  • Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots.
  • Abhinav Gupta on GitHub
  • Akshay Shah
  • A theory of modern Go by Peter Bourgon

• Gin is a very bad software library by Efron Licht
• Bun SQL injection via error messages
• Modernizing Reddit's Comment Backend Infrastructure by Katie Shannon
• Interview with Erik St. Martin & Johnny Boursiquot
  • GopherCon

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• 🪪 Go 1.25.5 and Go 1.24.11 are released with x509-related security fixes
• 👉 spec: allow type parameter as the RHS in an alias type declaration
• 🐾 Dingo
• Lightning round
  • GoWest Videos
  • How slow is channel-based iteration?
  • AMA with the GoLand team
• Interview with Riccardo Pinosio and Jan Pfeifer
  • GoMLX: An Accelerated Machine Learning Framework For Go
  • Hugot: ONNX Transformer Pipelines for Go
  • GoMLX and Hugot: Expanding the Horizons of Machine Learning in Go
  • Knight Analytics

• golang.org/x/crypto v0.45.0 released
• 🎂 Blog post: Go's Sweet 16
• macOS 12 losing support in Go 1.27
• 🗒️ Interview with Neil Vass
  • Neil's notes
  • Learn Go with Tests
  • Chris Do Dev on YouTube
  • Jonathan's joke assert library

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• News
  • [security] golang.org/x/crypto fix pre-announcement
  • proposal: spec: remove cycle restriction for type parameters
  • Accepted: Add bytes.Buffer.Peek 
  • TIOBE index
  • Rust vs Go: Memory Management
• Interview
  • With Guy Gofman
  • MIND's career page: https://mind.io/careers
  • Git CTF: https://www.mrnice.dev/ctf/

• 🐞 Go 1.25.4 and 1.24.10 are released
• The Geomys Standard of Care
• 🛡️ Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography
• 🫚 go podcast() episode 64: Podman, the root-less alternative to Docker

• New proposal: go vet check for using %q with integer types
• Blog: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds by Andrew Ayer
• JetBrains' language promise index
• Reddit: Why I built a ~39M op/s, zero-allocation ring buffer for file watching
• Blog: A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go

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• DRAFT RELEASE NOTES — Go 1.26
• Coding Challenge #100 - BitTorrent Client
• The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go

This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience, during a GoSF meetup.

• Go 1.25.3 and 1.24.9 released
• 🪲 Blog:  How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler by Thea Heinen
• zsh support progress for sh
• 🇺🇸 Go meetup & live episode @ San Francisco
• 🌩️ Lightning round
  • qjs, a CGO-Free, modern, secure JavaScript runtime for Go applications
  • 📺 Kaizen, watch anime from the terminal

• Security releases
  • 🍪 Go 1.25.2 and 1.24.8 with 10 security fixes
  • 🌐 golang.org/x/net v0.45.0 with 2 security fixes
• Meetups @ Conferences
  • 🇺🇸 San Fransisco, CA, USA — Oct 23 @ Forge
  • 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Israel — Dec 10 @ Cato Networks
  • 🇺🇸 GoWest @ Lehi, Utah USA — Oct 24
• 🧦 New swag in the Cup o' Go store!
• Proposals
  • 👷🏿‍♀️ Accepted: go fix to apply fixes from modernizers and gofix analyzers
  • On hold: Add experimental HTTP/3 support
• 👖 gofumpt: Should clothing naked returns be put behind `-extra`?

• Conference videos
  • 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK
  • FyneConf
• Proposals
  • 💧 Accepted: add new goroutine leak profile as a GOEXPERIMENT
    • Full discussion of this feature in Episode 127
  • 🪿 Added to minutes: add GOOS=noos bare metal support
  • 🫣 Added to minutes: Add bytes.Buffer.Peek
  • 👍 Added to minutes: Add must.Do
• Blog posts
  • ✈️ Go blog: Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 by Carlos Amedee and Michael Knyszek
  • 🫖 We tried Go's experimental Green Tea garbage collector and it didn't help performance by Zach Musgrave
• do v2.0.0 released, dependency injection toolkit for Go
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • Watermill 1.5 Released
  • Sweet Fyne apps
    • supersonic
    • Bounce presentation
  • modgen, static generator for Go module vanity URLs

• Meetups and Conferences
  • 🇺🇸 Go Meetup in San Francisco, Oct 23 @ Forge
  • 🇺🇸 GoWest, Oct 24 @ Lehi, Utah USA
  • 🇳🇬 GopherCon Africa, Oct 24 & 25 @ Lagos, Nigeria
  • 🇷🇺 LetsGoConf followup post on Telegram
• Proposals
  • ⚠️ Accepted: errors.AsType (As with type parameters)
  • 💧 runtime/pprof,runtime: new goroutine leak profile
  • New: direct reference to embedded fields in struct literals
• 🌩️ Lighting Round
  • golangci-lint v2.5.0 released
  • Blog: Building Conway's Game of Life in Go with raylib-go by Tim Little
  • Blog: vacuum gets a facelift by quobix

Thanks Gabriel Augendre for guest co-hosting this episode!

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• 🔬 A new experimental Go API for JSON
• 🧾 2025 Go Developer Survey
• 🥸 Test state, not interactions by Redowan
• 😴 Go team quiet week Sep 22–Sep 26
• ⛓️‍💥 The Day the Linter Broke My Code

Interview with Matt Boyle

• Find Matt on X
• Ona
• ByteSizeGo
• Functional options for friendly APIs

• Go 1.25.1 and Go 1.24.7 are released
• 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe: Berlin 2025 videos online
• ⏱️ Blog: Testing Time (and other asynchronicities) by Damien Neil
  • Video: Testing Time (and other asynchronous code)
• 👖 gofumpt v0.9.0 released
  • Video: Go's Naked Returns: Be afraid!
• 🗳️ Blog: Building Bulletproof Leader Election in Kubernetes Operators: A Deep Dive by Ishai Shor
• Proposals
  • Accepted: deprecate x/net/context package
  • 👈 Likely accept: spec: expression to create pointer to simple types
• Jonathan is available for fractional Gopher work!
• Lightning Round
  • github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.7.6 released
  • 👕 Gopher themed Hawaiian shirt designs
  • New "official" fork of Go YAML library

This episode is sponsored by Boldly Go! Need fractional Gophering work? Visit boldlygo.tech.

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• GopherCon 2026 location poll
• GopherCon India
• GOMAXPROCS
• Course: "Introducing Command Line Applications in Go"
• SQLite benchmarks

• 🥩 Meatspace
  • 🇺🇸 Going to GopherCon in NYC? Meet other Cup'o'Gophers there!
  • 🇺🇸 Interested in a SF meetup? Fill out the poll
  • 🇷🇺 Let's GoConf, Sept 12 @ Moscow, Russia
• GopherJS 1.19 with generics released
  • Interview with Grant Nelson, Episode 53
• Proposals
  • Accepted: x/tools/go/analysis/structtag: stricter JSON tag checking
    • Previous mention: Episode 117
  • New: errors: As with type parameters
  • New: x/net/context: deprecate package or symbols in package, and potentially tag/delete
• Lightning Round
  • 🐐 GoAT: Go ASCII TOOL
  • 🍰 Blog: Fun With Golang Slices by Monique Mudama

• Go 1.25 is released
  • 🛠️ x/tools contains public packages that fail to build with Go 1.25.0
• 🧱 Building blocks for idiomatic Go pipelines by Anton Zhiyanov
• GopherCon USA, Aug 26-28 in New York
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • outrig

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• [security] Go 1.24.6 and Go 1.23.12 are released
• Microsoft build of Go Telemetry – Helping Us Build Better Tools
• Go Assembly Mutation Testing
• GitLab catches MongoDB Go module supply chain attack
• Break:
  • John's streaming again on Twitch
• George Adams interview
  • Microsoft devblogs 

• 🗳️ Surveys say...
  • StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey results
  • The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey
• Proposals
  • 🆕 New: proposal: x/tools/go/analysis/structtag: stricter JSON tag checking
    • Related discussion on Episode 117
  • Accepted: doc: mention "purego" build tag convention somewhere
  • 🤡 Accepted: mime: expand on what is covered by builtinTypes
  • Accepted: log/slog: add multiple handlers support for logger
    • Related discussion on Episode 118
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
• CL to fix incorrect expansion of "", "." and ".." in LookPath
• 🧋 Blog: Developing a terminal UI in Go with Bubble Tea