Top picks — 2026 March

This article, part of a monthly series, details the author's personal journey of losing a job and finding a new one as a Lead Engineer working with Go. It reflects on the current job market's challenges, including AI tools and lengthy interview processes. The author expresses fatigue with frontend JavaScript ecosystem trends like CSS-in-JS and Tailwind, finding renewed passion in Go. The article then curates top tech picks for March 2026, including Daniel Lemire's trick on newline characters in URLs, Matheus Lima's piece on simplicity in engineering, Keith Cirkel's deep dive into CSS color precision with interactive demos, and news about the evolving Node.js release schedule. A music recommendation is also included.