Every talk from GopherCon UK 2026 is now on YouTube. Whether you missed a session, couldn't be in two tracks at once, or just want to rewatch a favourite, it's all there and free to watch. Huge thanks to our speakers for these, and to everyone who joined us in London. 💙 👉 piped.video/playlist?list=PL… #golang #gopherconuk26

I really like this short, it extract very well what was my intention with the talk about the select internals 🙂

Select is a cornerstone of how Go handles concurrency, but it can be tricky to get your head around, especially if you've come from a language where it looks just like a switch. In this talk, @jespinog takes a deep dive into how select really works, following it through the compiler, which quietly rewrites your code, and into the runtime, which picks between channels fairly and keeps your program from getting stuck. Understand it once, and you'll write better concurrent Go for good. Watch the full talk here: piped.video/fH5hoZJL_tQ

A broken config that passes every check is one of the sneakiest problems in production, because nobody finds out until something goes wrong. Veronika Volokitina tackled exactly that in Skipper, @Zalando's open source Go router, by making sure the checks at deploy time and the live system agree on what "valid" means. In this talk, Veronika shares the Go patterns behind the fix, the real bugs uncovered along the way, and lessons on rolling out changes safely at scale. Watch the full talk here: piped.video/UdsiZr9HEJI

I know what I'll be doing over the weekend!

If you missed my talk at @gopherconuk about the select statement, here are the slides (speakerdeck.com/jespino/deep…) and the recording (piped.video/watch?v=fH5hoZJL…). Check out the rest of the recordings in the conference, as always at @gopherconuk, the talks where amazing.

Checkout the current family of #Kronk stickers coming to a #golang event near you. Check out the travel schedule on the Kronk repo. github.com/ardanlabs/kronk#t…

Congratulations to Go co-creator Rob Pike on receiving the 2026 @USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame)! 🔥 Rob’s lasting impact spans Go, UTF-8, Plan 9, the Blit windowing system, and classic books like The Unix Programming Environment. 🧵👇

If you're like me and now feel a bit crap now you're building less, check out some tips to help stay passionate in tech. #golang #ai piped.video/watch?v=PEWR8lIJ…

Already at The Blue Gopher with @ainsleydev and the @jetbrains people, getting everything ready for the #GoReleaseParty. Join us in 1 hour 🎉 lp.jetbrains.com/go-127-rele…

Last chance to get a chef’s table at our Go 1.27 release party tomorrow! Join the developers from the Go team, @jespinog, and @ainsleydev for an exclusive look into what’s happening in the ecosystem, what it means for your code, and how to prepare to migrate. Make a reservation 👉 jb.gg/go-127-ot

Next week I'll be celebrating the new Go release in Amsterdam with @ainsleydev, and part of the Go team. Check it out here: lp.jetbrains.com/go-127-rele…

What makes @jespinog excited about Go 1.27? You’ll probably hear more about it at our release party, but here’s a sneak peek for you 👀 Join us live on August 25 at 4 pm UTC 👉 jb.gg/go-127-ot

Go 1.27 release party is just one week away! The drinks are cooling, the plans are cooking, but have you made your reservation yet? If not, be sure to do it before we have a full house! 👇 jb.gg/go-127-ot

v1.31.5 release of #Kronk now available. Best version yet. Plus updated website with new Bucky and Malina pages. kronkai.com/

Do you know what a game jam is? Think of it like a hackathon, but for game development: a creative sprint where developers design, code, and build a playable game from scratch within a set timeframe. Sounds fun, right? At @GopherConUK in London, we ran a 2-hour Mini Game Jam as part of my workshop "Vibe Code a 2D Game with Go and Gemini". The theme was "Garbage Collector (green tea 🍵)", and participants had access to Antigravity, Gemini 3.6 Flash (literally one day before 3.7 launched!), and a curated set of agent skills: • vibe-game-developer: entry point turning the agent into a game dev specialist • ebitengineer: tips and tricks for Ebitengine, our engine of choice • lyria: soundtrack generation (with procedural-composer for retro SFX) • nano-banana: pixel art assets, title screens, and sprites The result: 10 complete, playable 2D games built in a single afternoon. Congratulations to Ivan S for winning the jam with "London Eco-Rider: Ice Cream & Bottle Patrol"! Players guide Leo on his bike past Big Ben, grabbing ice cream for turbo boosts and recycling bottles for "Eco-Fever Mode" invincibility. Workshop repo & games: github.com/danicat/gcuk26 Slide deck: speakerdeck.com/danicat/vibe… Skills catalog: skills.danicat.dev

Still thinking about workshop day at GopherCon UK? A full day of hands-on Go with Bill Kennedy and Florin Pățan, and a room full of people getting properly stuck in. Thanks to everyone who came and built alongside us. 🐿️ #golang #gopherconuk26 @ardanlabs @goinggodotnet @dlsniper

That's a wrap on GopherCon UK 2026, and none of it happens without our sponsors. Thank you for backing the Go community, for making the room possible, and for helping bring everyone together for a few brilliant days of talks, ideas and hallway conversations. #golang #gopherconuk26

Lean back, GoLand's got you 😉.

Running a workshop at @gopherconuk next week: "Having fun with the Go source code" two hours of building Go from source and then changing things you're not supposed to change. the lexer, a compiler pass, the scheduler. Wed 12 aug, 10:00, King Vault gophercon.co.uk/schedule