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Matt Boyle

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Head of Product Engineering @ ona.com

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AlternativeTo @alternativeto.net · 13/06/2026
⚡OpenAI will acquire Ona, a cloud development environment company to add secure, persistent cloud execution to Codex, allowing agents to keep working beyond a single session and supporting enterprise deployments alternativeto.net/news/2026/6...
Text on a blue background announces OpenAI's acquisition of Ona, a cloud development environment company.
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Chris Aniszczyk @cra.dev · 01/05/2026
looking forward to the Background Agents summit to learn more background-agents.com/summit
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Background Agents Summit
Talks from leading practitioners building agent infrastructure — plus facilitated workshops to define the background agent stack. Free and virtual.
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Dan Mayer @mayerdan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is a good explanation of where things feel like they are headed at the moment. background-agents.com
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The Self-Driving Codebase
Background agents and the next era of enterprise software delivery.
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geshan.com.np @geshan.com.np · 11/03/2026
The Self-Driving Codebase background-agents.com Now, agents run autonomously across thousands of repos in the background. This trend is already in motion at companies like Stripe, who recently published about their Minions platform, Ramp, and Spotify.
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The Self-Driving Codebase
Background agents and the next era of enterprise software delivery.
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HN @hnws.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox L: ona.com/stories/how-claude-code-esc… C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472369… posted on 2026.03.03 at 13:49:59 (c=2, p=8)
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I have been working on something new - a fun way to learn the Go programming language. If you want to be one of the first to give it a try, you can join the waitlist here: www.bytesizego.com/goflow-landing
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I have been working on something new - a fun way to learn the Go programming language. If you want to be one of the first to give it a try, you can join the waitlist here: www.bytesizego.com/goflow-landing
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
There is an environment variable (GOMAXPROCS) that you can set which determines how many threads your go program will use simultaneously... 🧵
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
People are often surprised that both Ona (formerly Gitpod) agents and our platform are built in Go, not Python. The advantages are real, and I think we’ll see more and more companies making the same choice. I talk about this (and a lot more) on the latest episode of the Cup O’ Go podcast.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
For most of us, garbage collection is something we have heard of but never need to pay attention to.However, one of the reasons Go is so efficient and easy to learn is due to its excellent GC. 🧵
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This weekend I vibe coded a tool where you can check if sites were created by vibe coding so you can judge other sites for vibe coding whilst you vibe code. Check it out here: vibe-coder-analyzer.pages.dev What's the lowest score you can find?
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Here's a thread with a brief history of dependency management in Go. For those of you newer to Go, it might surprise you to know that go modules was not always part of the language. When Go launched in 2009, it did not have any dependency management solution as Google had no need for one.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We sometimes struggle to position Ona, as we built it for parallelism to be at the core of everything you do and you have to feel it to "get it". Our CTO Chris has put together a best practise guide for how to use our platform to get maximum productivity without trading off security.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
errGroups are probably my favourite Go package. errGroup makes it really easy to take a bunch of tasks and run them in parallel, making your program faster. They do this whilst keeping your code readable. Here's an example of one of my most common use-cases I asked chatGPT to generate.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I have seen many complex setups and memes about people being able to use Claude Code on the go. Ona Cloud uses Sonnet 4 under the hood, and because our platform is cloud-native, handing off from Laptop to phone is as simple as just going to app.ona.com.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"We need new interfaces, new tools that embrace parallelism" Read more about how we designed Ona for parrallism to be at the core (link below)
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
You have probably heard of gRPC if you haven't used it. It is particularly popular for inter-service communication due to its efficiency, language agnostic nature and support out of the box for things like MTLS. Here's a really simple example of how you can get started with gRPC 🧵
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We have a Slack channel, #so-many-demos, where we share quick Loom or CleanShot demos of ideas. These demos might not ship, but they spark early sharing and experimentation. With AI making demos nearly free, the goal is clear: create more.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
SuperWispr remains my favorite AI tool to date. It makes every single one of my workflows faster.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I have seen many complex setups and memes about people being able to use Claude Code on the go. Ona Cloud uses Sonnet 4 under the hood, and because our platform is cloud-native, handing off from Laptop to phone is as simple as just going to app.ona.com.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Really cool to see Ona mentioned alongside great companies such as OpenAI, Cursor and AMP When working on Ona, we were very tempted to introduce our own standard for Agent Rules, but the old XKCD on standards came to mind. AGENTS.md just makes sense!
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
reallllyyyyy
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We just shipped chapter 4 of The Anatomy of Go! For those who have already purchased the book at the discounted price; simply click the link in the next post to download the latest version free. Chapter 4 adds 100+ new pages and digs into how Structs, Interfaces and Generics work under the hood.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If you could go back in time and show Alan Turing ChatGPT, and he had to guess which year it was released. What would he say?
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Wow what a reception! Even Reddit was kind about it, that’s how you know you’re on to something!
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Today I'm proud to launch your new favourite Go book in early access! This book will go to a depth not seen before in Go books, and the first three chapters are available right now: www.bytesizego.com/books/anatom...
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Today I'm proud to launch your new favourite Go book in early access! This book will go to a depth not seen before in Go books, and the first three chapters are available right now: www.bytesizego.com/books/anatom...
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If video is more your thing, you can watch me discuss it and generate one for the biggest Go project I could think of; Kubernetes Watch free here: bytesizego.com/lessons/sbom...
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Generating A SBOM for Go Apps - ByteSizeGo
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Short to the point blog this week on: - what is an SBOM? - why should you care? - How to generate one in Go www.bytesizego.com/blog/underst...
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Understanding SBOM in Go: Why It Matters and How to Generate One
A deep dive into Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), its importance in Go projects, and how to generate one using CycloneDX.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Short to the point blog this week on: - what is an SBOM? - why should you care? - How to generate one in Go www.bytesizego.com/blog/underst...
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Understanding SBOM in Go: Why It Matters and How to Generate One
A deep dive into Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), its importance in Go projects, and how to generate one using CycloneDX.
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Creator Unbound - Grow your following with AI @creatorunbound.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.
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Creator Unbound - Grow your following with AI @creatorunbound.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth.
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Steven Turturo @turturo.dev · 17/03/2025
This is a fun tool lol. Gives my artisanal, hand crafted waitlist site a 68% vibe coded score I threw up this weekend after a few hours of work with 0 AI generated code lol.
A screen capture of Matt Boyle’s vibe coded tool to rate websites on their Vibe Coding score, which is the probability that it was vibe coded using AI. 

It shows waitlist.safertogether.app as having a score of 68% VibeCoded.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This weekend I vibe coded a tool where you can check if sites were created by vibe coding so you can judge other sites for vibe coding whilst you vibe code. Check it out here: vibe-coder-analyzer.pages.dev What's the lowest score you can find?
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Happy Friday all! What will you be working on this weekend?
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Microsoft rewrites typescript compiler in Go and achieves 10x speed improvements. Can read more here: devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
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A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
github.com/openai/openai-… This is really interesting and the approach makes a lot of sense. Great to see tracing as a first class citizen and I think the concept of handoffs seem really intuitive. Really interested to see how well the guardrails work.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Microsoft rewrites typescript compiler in Go and achieves 10x speed improvements. Can read more here: devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
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A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
And here it is: bytesizego.com/lessons/exte... In this video we: - Learn what MCP is and why people are excited about it. - Create an MCP server using Go. - Connect it up to Cursor. - Look at how to use it as part of our prompting. - Discuss how you can use this at work.
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Creating an MCP server with Go - ByteSizeGo
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I saw lots of chatter about MCP servers on X this weekend. They effectively let you "extend" Cursor with custom tools. I found a lot of examples for them in Python but not so many in Go... so I made one.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Started making a stupid game and now I'm having to debug why my A* search isn't working. Vibe coding isn't for me.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I predict going forward we'll see a return to QA roles. There will be a lot more emphasis on human validation of correctness. I think even if we don't acknowledge it, in a "vibe coding" world, more of us are spending time doing traditional QA rather than programming.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
You call it an AI Agent. I call it a cron job. We are not the same.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Europe will take over the US for startups purely due to our Claude access. Kept getting rate-limited last night but 0 issue in the early morning.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Have you heard of sync.Once? In concurrent programs, ensuring initialization happens exactly once can be challenging, but it can also be important for performance reasons: bytesizego.com/lessons/sync-once (Sign in to watch 5 lessons for free)
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
You call it an AI Agent. I call it a cron job. We are not the same.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I predict going forward we'll see a return to QA roles. There will be a lot more emphasis on human validation of correctness. I think even if we don't acknowledge it, in a "vibe coding" world, more of us are spending time doing traditional QA rather than programming.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New Lesson on creating Desktop applications using Go. You can check it out for free here: www.bytesizego.com/lessons/buil...
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Building Desktop apps using Go - ByteSizeGo
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Christoph Berger @christophberger.com · 04/03/2025
"Tiny Tyrants of Technology" A.k.a. bugs. Those nasty beasts are hard to come by, hence I dedicated this newsletter issue's Spotlight section to Delve, the Go debugger. newsletter.appliedgo.net/archive/2025... #golang
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The Tiny Tyrants of Technology • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2025-03-02
The Tiny Tyrants of Technology Hi , How do you debug an app? Do you spread log.Println() calls across the code or start Delve every time? Or a mix of both,...
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New Lesson on creating Desktop applications using Go. You can check it out for free here: www.bytesizego.com/lessons/buil...
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Building Desktop apps using Go - ByteSizeGo
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