Gist of Go: Concurrency

Hi! Long time no see. Hope you are doing well.

I'm Anton. I work on open source and write interactive technical books.

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Since the last issue, I've published the first part of Gist of Go: Concurrency. It is an interactive book that teaches Go concurrency from the ground up through practical exercises. Already published chapters cover goroutines, channels, pipelines, time, context, and wait groups. More are on the way!

Speaking of Go, the next release (1.24) is scheduled for February, so I've prepared an interactive tour. It's much more accessible than the official release notes, and covers generic aliases, weak pointers, directory-scoped filesystem access, synthetic time, and many other features.

If English is not your native language, check out my VS Code extension for copyediting and translating text. It's a simple alternative to DeepL, Grammarly, and other similar tools. Supports Copilot, Ollama, or OpenAI, whichever suits you best.

Finally, if you're into SQLite, I've released a high-precision date/time extension with a structured API and a rich set of functions. If you are familiar with Go's time package, you may notice some similarities, and that's no coincidence :)

That's all for now! See you in a month or two.

Anton