Dave Cheney

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Pop quiz: what time was it? #Go #Programming #Tech
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Dec 18, 2025
Pointer pop quiz #Go #Programming #Tech
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Nov 27, 2025
Microblog: TestMain can cause one to question reality #Go #Testing #SoftwareDevelopment
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Feb 21, 2024
A few bytes here, a few there, pretty soon you're talking real memory #Go #Programming #Tech
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Jan 5, 2021
The story of the one line fix #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Code
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Dec 15, 2020
How to dump the GOSSAFUNC graph for a method #Go #Programming #Compiler
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Jun 19, 2020
Diamond interface composition in Go 1.14 #Go #Programming #Interfaces
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May 24, 2020
Fatih's question #Go #Programming #JSON
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May 16, 2020
Ensmallening Go binaries by prohibiting comparisons #Go #Programming #Optimization
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May 9, 2020
Mid-stack inlining in Go #Go #Programming #Performance
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May 2, 2020
Inlining optimisations in Go #Go #Programming #Performance
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Apr 25, 2020
go test -v streaming output #Go #Programming #Testing
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Mar 10, 2020
Are large slices more expensive than smaller ones? #Go #Programming #Performance
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Mar 1, 2020
The Zen of Go #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Feb 23, 2020
Dynamically scoped variables in Go #Go #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Dec 8, 2019
Internets of Interest #15: The Queen of the Skies #Tech #Aviation #News
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Dec 5, 2019
Complementary engineering indicators #Engineering #Software #Metrics
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Dec 4, 2019
Internets of interest #14: UNIX v0 #History #Unix #Computing
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Nov 17, 2019
Internets of interest: Warner Losh on the first ten years of UNIX #History #Tech #Unix
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Nov 16, 2019
Use internal packages to reduce your public API surface #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Oct 6, 2019