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Sourcegraph 3.34 release

Sourcegraph 3.34 introduces helpful search tips when no results are returned, along with 'Find Implementations' support for Go.

Simplicity is worth paying for: Dev Tool Time with Roger Peppe

Roger Peppé, Software Engineer at InfluxData, shares his standing desk setup, and how the Acme text editor and mouse chording drive his coding workflow.

Using shard merging to tackle the long tail of tiny and stale repos

Sourcegraph is on track to grow its index of open source repositories significantly, with the aim of indexing the OSS universe. This post dives into the motivations behind introducing shard merging to our search backend.

Sourcegraph is accepting maintainership of Zoekt

Today, we're announcing that Sourcegraph is accepting maintainership of Zoekt, the prominent open source code search engine, from its creator, Han-Wen Nienhuys.

Thinking less to do more: Dev Tool Time with ThePrimeagen

ThePrimeagen, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix and Twitch Partner tech streamer, shares how he reduces cognitive overhead with tmux, i3, and Neovim to write code more effectively.

Sourcegraph 3.33 release

Sourcegraph 3.33 introduces general availability for search contexts as well as Code Intelligence status data for all non-admin users.

Introducing search contexts

Version contexts and repogroups are a powerful way to search across multiple repositories. To expand this functionality, we're releasing search contexts in Sourcegraph 3.33.

Down the ergonomic rabbit hole: Dev Tool Time with Amir Rajan

Amir Rajan, acclaimed indie game dev and co-creator of DragonRuby Game Toolkit, shares the many stages of his hardware setup over the years, and how he uses Emacs as a game dev.

Postgres text search: balancing query time and relevancy

How do you balance query time and relevance with Postgres text search? Stephen Gutekanst, an engineer working on Sourcegraph's API docs feature, shares tips for stirring code analysis with search indexing

How we built our software engineering career framework

Engineering managers and ICs at Sourcegraph once lacked a common language for growth. Here's the story of how we developed the first version of our first engineering career framework.

Writing prose like code: Dev Tool Time with Adam Gordon Bell

Adam Gordon Bell, Developer Advocate at Earthly, shares how he leverages dev tools to write consistent, high-quality technical prose.

The Nine Circles of Dependency Hell (and a roadmap out)

Spending more time on dependency issues than writing code - we've all been there, but it doesn't have to be a one-way ticket.

How to remove secrets from your codebase

We used to store secrets in our source code. Here's how we used code search to help us find, remove, and rotate all secrets in our codebase.

Sourcegraph 3.32 release

Sourcegraph 3.32 introduces a new search sidebar for navigating revisions, improved search results caching, and custom LSIF data retention policies.

Small things that, when combined, make your development experience that much more pleasant - Dev Tool Time with Paul Jolly

Paul Jolly, maintainer on the CUE project and co-creator of Play with Go, shares how a minimalist desk setup, combined with the sophisticated programming language CUE, creates a streamlined development environment.

Accessibility, observability, and sustainability: Dev Tool Time with Liz Fong-Jones

Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate at Honeycomb and long-time Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), shares how nano, Honeycomb, and ARM processors fit together into a moveable, minimal workflow for development.

Sourcegraph 3.31 release

Sourcegraph 3.31 introduces the ability to automatically migrate saved search notifications to code monitors.

We're deprecating Language Server support

We're dropping support for Language Server-based code intelligence from our product, effective 2021-09-06. Note that this will affect all instances that are not running a private extension registry, not just those upgrading to the current version of Sourcegraph.

“I don’t like things that write code for me”: Dev Tool Time with Mitchell Hashimoto

Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder, CTO, and now individual contributor at HashiCorp, shares how reproducible environments with NixOS and an iPad fit into his developer workflow, and his sentiments about IDEs.

A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations

Recently, we've been working to scale Sourcegraph cloud’s index to 1 million open source repositories and beyond. Part of that effort has been reducing the RAM usage for the Zoekt (pronounced "zooked") servers responsible for handling most of our code searches.