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Do you need a repository layer on top of sqlc?

https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/03/repository-layer-over-sqlc/ · 16 Mar 2026

Decoupling business logic from storage with a small interface in Go.

go database

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

In praise of the etcd codebase

https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/03/etcd-codebase/ · 14 Mar 2026

Why the etcd codebase is my go-to reference for building gRPC services in Go.

go grpc distributed systems

Go errors: to wrap or not to wrap?

https://rednafi.com/go/to-wrap-or-not-to-wrap/ · 7 Mar 2026

Exploring the tradeoffs between wrapping errors at every return site versus wrapping only at boundaries, with no definitive answer - just honest tradeoffs for the kind of software I write.

go error handling

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

What canceled my Go context?

https://rednafi.com/go/context-cancellation-cause/ · 24 Feb 2026

How Go 1.20's WithCancelCause and Go 1.21's WithTimeoutCause let you attach a reason to context cancellation, plus a gotcha with manual cancel and the stdlib pattern that covers every path.

go error handling concurrency

Stress testing Claude's language skills

https://vivsha.ws/blog/stress-testing-claudes-language-skills · 24 Feb 2026

Polyglot or poly-not?

ai llms claude benchmarks javascript typescript python ruby rust java haskell go

Structured concurrency & Go

https://rednafi.com/go/structured-concurrency/ · 21 Feb 2026

How Python and Kotlin provide structured concurrency out of the box while Go achieves the same patterns explicitly using errgroup, WaitGroup, and context.

go python kotlin concurrency

Go Modules for Package Management Tooling

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/19/go-modules-for-package-management-tooling.html · 19 Feb 2026

The Go modules behind git-pkgs, rebuilt from my Ruby supply chain libraries.

go sbom package-managers tools

Package Management Namespaces

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/14/package-management-namespaces.html · 14 Feb 2026

Comparing namespace models across npm, Maven, Go, Swift, and crates.io.

package-managers registries npm go deep-dive