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While it’s not perfect, I love the encoding/json package in Go’s standard library. However, as you can see from the video above, it does have its drawbacks. And while none of the performance issues or bugs have been an issue for me in the past, the work done on this new version does simplify something I run into frequently, which is dealing with custom encoding and decoding for standard types....

In 2022, one of the local football club blogs was having a video podcast, and in the live comments somebody on a mobile phone said “Westwood should ahoy more” which I assume was “shoot”. But “ahoy” stuck as a word we yell when somebody shoots from outside the box now.