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Notes on discrete-time Fourier series and transform

The following are my notes on discrete-time Fourier series (DTFS), as well as the discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT). These topics serve as an important theoretical underpinning to the digital processing of signals by computers using the DFT (which will be covered in a future...

A native IDE written in Go goes open source

#​618 — September 18, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Size-Specialized Memory Allocation in Go 1.27 — Small allocations (under 80 bytes) are now up to 30% faster, and you can get the benefits just by rebuilding. Learn where the s...

Size-Specialized Memory Allocation

Go 1.27 improves performance of small allocations using size-specialized allocation functions.

Operators of death: checked arithmetic in Rust

Startlingly, the standard arithmetic operators in Rust can give us the wrong answers—and that can be fatal. To avoid getting your bits chopped off, use checked arithmetic instead.

Model Management

The previous article went through the Kronk SDK: a batching engine, a conversation cache, and a pile of workarounds behind a very small public API. All of it rested on three assumptions: that the model file was already on disk, that somebody had chosen a context size that fits i...

Notes on debugging standard and third-party Emacs code

Building cgo code without a C compiler?

#​617 — September 11, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Could Go Build cgo Packages Without a C Compiler? — Cross-compiling with import "C" can be painful as it needs a C toolchain. This proposal would let packages that only call p...

Go 1.27.1-2 Microsoft build now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.27.1-2 Microsoft build now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

Understanding Testcontainers: The Ryuk Reaper

If you’ve used Testcontainers in any language (Go, Java, .NET, Python, Node, Rust), you’ve probably noticed an extra container hanging around in your docker ps output while your tests run. Its image is testcontainers/ryuk, and its name follows a pattern that varies by...