Unsafe string interning in Go
I discuss the https://go4.org/intern package and the unsafe techniques it uses to implement string interning in Go.
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Go generics draft design: building a hashtable
I describe my experiences porting a toy hashtable design to the June 2020 Go generics draft design.
Matt's remote workspace in 2020
A description of the audio/video/computer equipment that Matt uses working from home.
CoreRAD: a new IPv6 router advertisement daemon
An introduction to CoreRAD, an extensible and observable IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol router advertisement daemon.
Safe use of unsafe.Pointer
Using Go tools to safely write unsafe code.
Exploring byte parsing APIs in Go
An exploration into building safe and ergonomic byte parsing APIs in Go.
Network Protocol Breakdown: NDP and Go
An introduction to the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery protocol, and how to utilize it from Go.
A programmer's journey with RSI
My experiences as a professional programmer dealing with RSI and cubital tunnel syndrome, and how I manage these issues.
Accessing SMBIOS information with Go
Accessing hardware information using the SMBIOS standard with Go.
unsafe.Pointer and system calls
Using Go's unsafe.Pointer type to cast raw memory and work with system calls.
Cthulhu: Organizing Go Code in a Scalable Repo
Lessons learned while working with DigitalOcean's monolithic Go code repository, cthulhu.
Network Protocol Breakdown: Ethernet and Go
An introduction to Ethernet frames, VLAN tags, and raw sockets, and how to leverage low-level networking primitives in Go.
Linux VM sockets in Go
Leveraging Linux VM sockets to enable bidirectional, many-to-one communication between a hypervisor and its VMs, using Go.
Linux, Netlink, and Go - Part 3: packages netlink, genetlink, and wifi
Using netlink, generic netlink, and nl80211 to manipulate WiFi network interfaces on Linux, using Go.
Linux, Netlink, and Go - Part 2: generic netlink
An introduction to generic netlink: an extensible netlink family. This post also describes how to leverage generic netlink in Go.
Linux, Netlink, and Go - Part 1: netlink
An introduction to Linux's netlink subsystem, and a tutorial on how to make use of it with Go.
Contributing to the Go project
A step-by-step explanation of how to contribute to the Go project.
Open Source at DigitalOcean: Introducing go-qemu and go-libvirt
Controlling QEMU and libvirt programmatically using pure Go interfaces.
Go in a Monorepo
An exploration of DigitalOcean's monolithic Go code repository.