Conferences galore for Q4, Alien Abduction 🛸, and interview with Peter Seebach aka Seebs on Go performance

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!

• So many conferences!
  • 🇺🇸 GopherCon, San Diego, CA, USA, September 25-28
    • 🎟️ Tickets still available
    • 🏨 Hotel discount extended to Monday, September 18
  • 🇮🇪 GopherCon Ireland, Dublin, November 2
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Fyne Conf, Edinburgh, November 3
    • CFP open until October 6
  • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore, November 2-3
  • 🇦🇺 GopherConAU, Sydney, November 8-10
  • 🇮🇹 GoLab, Florence, Italy, November 19-21
• Proposals
  • encoding: add AppendText and AppendBinary
  • cmd/go: add support for dealing with flaky tests
  • 🗜️ compress/zstd: implement support for compressing and decompressing
• Blog post: CGO Performance In Go 1.21 by Shane Hansen
• 🛸 Gopher Slack update: #general and #random were temporarily abducted by aliens
• Various Localization issues and proposals
  • Proposal: Localization support in Go & x/text: localization support
  • Proposal: cmd/go: add language localization support to go doc
  • Share your thoughts on #cup-o-go
• [Sponsored] Koyeb new feature alert: Built-in Observability to Monitor Your Apps Performances
• Interview with Peter Seebach aka Seebs
  • GitHub