Jonathan Hall
Freelance Gopher, Continuous Delivery consultant, and host of the Boldly Go YouTube channel.
Appears in 165 Episodes
Go releases and events from EMEA and around the world
Conferences and MeetupsFyne Conf 2026 @ Eindhoven, NL, Sept 11 West/Central African Gophers Meetup, Sept 31 Online GopherCon Africa 2026 @ Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 15-17 Re...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Go 1.27 But Were Afraid to Ask
In which Jonathan and Shay dig through the top highlights of Go's new release, Go 1.27! Release notes Interactive release notes "If you use this package, you will go s...
A string of new releases, plus an interview with the creators of Gaal
🧶 Proposal: remove string(int) Go 1.26.6 & 1.25.13 released Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/mod ⚡ Lightning round🪵 Logrus v1.10.0 released chi v5.3.2 released 💩 CRAP R...
Quick GopherCon recap, and interview with Kemal Akkoyun of Datadog
Go 1.26.6 & 1.25.13 pre-release announcement Go SF Meetup, Aug 26 GopherCon Israel CFP extended through Aug 15 Discussion: A more robust proposal process Interview wit...
Cancel culture is really getting out of hand in the Go stdlib
oapi-codegen v2.8.0 released with OpenAPI 3.1 support 🚫 Proposal accepted: Drop support for net/http.Transport.CancelRequest 🗑️ Blog post: Watching Go's new garbage co...
Proposals, proposals, proposals. And faster PostgreSQL tests with Peter Downs
ProposalsAccepted: testing: allow examples with any signature Accepted: maps: add Identical func Accepted: sync/atomic: add Max/Min operators No proposal (!?): add alg...
💩 Security releases you MUST parse, GopherJS, TypeScript 7, and Patricio Diaz CRAPs on your code
Go 1.26.5 and Go 1.25.12 are releasedEpisode 54: 🛡️ Focus on security & crypto w/ Filippo Valsorda GopherJS 1.21.0 releasedEpisode 53: Gleefully announcing new release...
I'm So Meta, Even The Airing // Talking about Cup o' Go 2.0
Jonathan and Shay talk about the show itself; a bit of context and history, what they like, what they don't like, and how it will change in the future. The main thing ...
Canada trip, 1.27rc1, `` vs “, and Go in the Gaming industry with Francis J. Nickels III
Visit cupogo.dev for show notes, Patreon link, Swag, and more! 🥳 Go 1.27 Release Candidate 1 is released↪️ With Delve released as well “ proposal: cmd/gofmt: don't rew...
Go's revolving door, live from ElevateDev
Proposal declined: drop gccgo gaal — Keep skills in sync across AI agents vscode-go 0.54.0 released generic methods in Go have been implementedNot everybody is happy a...
Quantum MIME, Eurovision, and lots of MONEY
🤡 Go 1.26.4 and 1.25.11 released 🥉 Learning Go, 3rd Edition by Jon Bodner in early release 🇩🇪 GopherCon EU, June 15-18 @ Berlin, Germany 💰 Reddit: Working with money i...
New rule: Every rule exists to be broken. (except this one?)
GoConf, Sept 11 & Moscow, RussiaCFP ProposalsAccepted: Formal GODEBUG removal policy New: Allow explicit conversion from function to 1-method interface Blog: The 10 Go...
(AI) Some imp(AI)ortant sec(AI)urity fixes (AI). And AI is every(AI)where!
🛡️ Several security releases🖼️ Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/image 🔐 Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/crypto 🥅 Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/net 📘 Blog: Introducing...
Linux vs Windows: Which has the most security vulnerabilities in Go 1.26.2?
GopherCon Agenda is live! Aug 3-6 @ Seattle Go 1.26.3 and 1.25.10 released with 11 security fixes Go + LLM projectsgosymdb: A Go symbol and call-graph database backed...
OpenAPI 3.1.0 support in kin-openapi, and a CRITical look at agentic coding
kin-openapi v0.136.0 released with support for OpenAPI 3.1.0 git 2.54 releasedgo-git Accepted proposal: modernize for atomic, embedlit, errorsastype, plusbuild, string...
Builds, Validation, Web3, CORS, Typescript-- wait this is a Go show?! with Paweł Zaremba
Visit cupogo.dev for show notes, Patreon link, Swag and more! proposal: cmd/go: add -buildversion build flag Validating data in Go by Phillipp Winter: https://nymity.c...
A Nil by any other name
GopherCon Singapore, May 22-26 Accepted proposalsuuid: add API to generate and parse UUIDRelated, likely decline: rename Nil to Zero strings, bytes: add CutLast deprec...
Go 1.26.2 is a beast. Go upgrade!
📄 GopherCon UK 2026 CFP open through Apr 16 Go 1.26.2 and 1.25.9 released with 10 CVE fixes ⚡ Lightning Roundlneto — Userspace networking primitives Blog: A Cryptograp...
Go is epic at Epic! Chat with Creed Haymond about Go in gaming
Go 1.26.2 and Go 1.25.9 coming Tue, April 7 Go Blog: Type Construction and Cycle Detection by Mark Freeman Blog: Developing a 2FA Desktop Client in Go by Alex Pliutau ...
You get an error, ⚠️ you get an error, ⚠️ you get an error. ⚠️ Everybody gets an error! ⚠️⚠️
🍯 Proposal Accepted: function type inference should work in all assignment contexts 🧵 Blog: Go String Concatenation Performance Optimization: Comparing 15 Methods by W...