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My Experience with Go Plugins

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Go Plugins Link to heading

A Walk Through History Link to heading

I’ve been writing go for a long time. Since early 2012 or so. I’ve used all kinds of side projects (most of them open source) to learn new things. I contributed to gorp and wrote gorq (originally gorp-queries) to learn the laws of reflection. At Pivotal, I used some of my free time to study the atomic package to reduce lock contention in what eventually became our diodes package. I wrote hel to learn the parser and ast packages.

TODO

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

TODO: actually write some blog posts. Link to heading

I need to get to this some day. I just have too many things to do.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, I’m Sam. I am a distributed systems engineer by day; tinkerer and nerd by night.

I’ve used go as my primary language since 2012. That’s almost 15 years as I’m writing this. I dabble in plenty of other languages (rust, zig, python, elm, etcetera), but go remains my main language.

I’ve helped maintain many open source libraries for go, starting with testify, goweb, and gorp; and including more recent examples such as correct and my text editor, vidar.

Contact

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Find me at:

My sourcehut
My codeberg
My github (I don’t use it very often, but it exists)
My linkedin

Projects

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hel: the mock generator you don’t think about
protoql: generate SQL code for protobuf types
Vidar Text Editor: a GUI text editor written in go