❄️ Be unique, just like everyone else & interview with 📦 testcontainers maintainer Manuel de la Peña

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• 🛡️ Security pre-release announcement
  • Go 1.21.4 and 1.20.11 coming on Tuesday, November 7
• Conferences
  • 🇮🇪 GopherCon Ireland yesterday
  • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore ongoing, yesterday and today
  • 🇬🇧 Fyne Conf today
  • 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, November 10-11
  • 🇨🇳 GopherChina, November 19
  • 🇮🇹 GoLab, Italy, November 19-21
• Proposals
  • Accepted: new package with unique.Handle
    • Blog post: netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go by Brad Fitzpatrick
  • ℹ️ New: Standardize -help output
    • Alternate proposal: show the help when the --help/-h flag is passed
  • New: bytes: add Reader methods Buffered, Peek, and Discard
  • Benchmarks:
    • On Hold: testing: add Keep, to force evaluation in benchmarks
    • Accepted: testing: add testing.B.Loop for iteration
• Blog post: Unmasking a Go HTML Parser Bug with Differential Fuzzing by Maciej Mionskowski
  • Related project: radamsa, test case generator for fuzzing
• Discussion: "Real" Go projects that would be considered idiomatic
• pex, a tool to make piping easier
  • On GitHub
  • Demo video
• Podcast: Security Cryptography Whatever
• [Sponsored] Backend Banter is the only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers.
• 📦 testcontainers interview with Manuel de la Peña
  • Web site for Testcontainers for Go
  • On GitHub
  • Latest release: v0.26.0
  • Follow Manuel
    • GitHub
    • LinkedIn

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Jonathan Hall

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Josh Bleecher Snyder

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