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https://rednafi.com/go/typesafe-slogging/ · 9 May 2026

The default slog API is loose enough that a careless line ships broken JSON to production. Pin it down with Attr constructors, LogAttrs, a context-borne logger, and sloglint.

go logging api

Hoisting wire plumbing out of your Go handlers

https://rednafi.com/go/hoist-wire-plumb/ · 2 May 2026

Four of the five steps in every unary RPC handler are wire plumbing. Pin the service function signature and they fit in one generic adapter per transport.

go api design patterns

Accepted proposal: UUID in the Go standard library

https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/04/go-uuid/ · 19 Apr 2026

Notes on Go's newly accepted uuid proposal and the tradeoffs behind the API.

go api

What's the ideal dispatch mechanism?

https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/03/ideal-dispatch-mechanism/ · 31 Mar 2026

Switch, map of functions, and interface registry for dispatching in Go.

go api

Is passing user ID through context an antipattern?

https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/03/user-id-through-context/ · 18 Mar 2026

Why the middleware-to-handler boundary is a special case for context values.

go api distributed systems

What belongs in Go's context values?

https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/03/what-belongs-in-go-context-values/ · 17 Mar 2026

A simple litmus test for when to use context values in Go.

go api distributed systems

Wrapping a gRPC client in Go

https://rednafi.com/go/wrap-grpc-client/ · 15 Mar 2026

How to wrap a generated gRPC client behind a clean Go API so users never have to touch protobuf types or connection management directly.

go grpc api distributed systems

Mutate your locked state inside a closure

https://rednafi.com/go/mutex-closure/ · 5 Mar 2026

Why your mutex wrapper should accept a closure for mutation instead of a plain value, with examples from the standard library and Tailscale.

go concurrency api

Your Go tests probably don't need a mocking library

https://rednafi.com/go/mocking-libraries-bleh/ · 23 Jan 2026

Practical patterns for mocking in Go without external libraries. Learn to mock functions, methods, interfaces, HTTP calls, and time using only the standard library

go testing api

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