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Good Riddance, 2025

Kev Quirk
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I'm glad to see the back of 2025, so let's focus on 2026.

As I write this, it’s 18:49 on New Year’s Eve. I’m sat in the lounge, with the fire going, annoyed that our NYE plans have been ruined by me having the flu.

I feels like an appropriately…

A 2026 checklist

Werd I/O
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A 2026 checklist

I'm not sure I believe in New Year's resolutions as such: too easy to break. But there's something powerful about a checklist, so I've been thinking about what it might look like to build one for every single day next year.

Here's what I have.

Every day

Close my Apple…

Detect Go’s silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint

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Go’s arithmetic operations on standard integer types are silent by default, meaning overflows “wrap around” without panicking. This behavior has hidden an entire class of security vulnerabilities from fuzzing campaigns. Today we’re changing that by releasing go-panikint, a modified Go compiler that turns silent integer overflows into explicit panics.…

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