▲ 9 ▼ Language Mechanics On Stacks And Pointers - William Kennedy
Part one of a blog series by @goinggodotnet to provide an understanding of the mechanics , the design philosophies and guidelines to write consistent and readable code in Go
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Lots of good material here - this is probably more in depth than is required for a beginner programmer (IMO), and Go does a good job of hiding the complexity most of the time, but it is useful to understand this stuff if you're using pointers. I do think you can write consistent and readable code in Go without understanding the behaviour language to this level of detail though as long as you grasp what a pointer is (a reference not a value).
This is probably the best introductory post I've read on the topic of pointers. I really like how it shows the stack and stack frames to explain what's going on.