Some notes on (Tony Finch's) exponential rate limiting in practice
I don't know how to implement proper ratelimiting (well, maybe I do now)
How Benjamin Franklin Invented Machine Learning in 1720
How a teenage printer’s writing exercise reverse engineered the timeless principles of learning. The core algorithm that powers today’s most advanced artificial intelligence wasn’t born in Silicon Valley or has anything to do with computers. It was engineered in...
Projects
Here are some of the projects I work on in my free time: practice-go A collection of Go programming challenges with tests and benchmarks. paypal
Setting up `govulncheck` in GitHub Actions with GitHub Code Scanning alerts
With oapi-codegen, as many other folks in the ecosystem, we've been asked a few times in the past "can you please update this dependency as it has a CVE". I'll generally reach for govulncheck as a way to confirm the impact, given it validates - via static analysis - whe...
Gotcha: referencing symlinks with `go:embed` result in `irregular file` errors
Early in 2024, I hit an issue with Go not allowing me to use go:embed. (Aside: this is one of those posts that has been on the backburner and I'm finally getting around to it given I had a few minutes spare, and I want to test some new functionality in my blog-to-LinkedIn syndica...
Making the Go module proxy happier using a LICENSE file
#569 — September 10, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Let's Look at Go's New Experimental API for JSON — Working with the Internet’s most popular data exchange format is a fundamental, day-to-day task for most developers but Go...
A new experimental Go API for JSON
Go 1.25 introduces experimental support for encoding/json/jsontext and encoding/json/v2 packages.
Early return and goroutine leak
At work, a common mistake I notice when reviewing candidates’ home assignments is how they wire goroutines to channels and then return early. The pattern usually looks like this: start a few goroutines each goroutine sends a result to its own unbuffered channel in the main...
Early return and goroutine leak
At work, a common mistake I notice when reviewing candidates’ home assignments is how they wire goroutines to channels and then return early. The pattern usually looks like this: start a few goroutines each goroutine sends a result to its own unbuffered channel in the main...