Reproducing word2vec with JAX

The word2vec model was proposed in a 2013 paper by Google researchers called "Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space", and was further refined by additional papers from the same team. It kick-started the modern use of embeddings - dense vector repr...

Is Clean Architecture Overengineering?

Quick takeaways Clean Architecture is most beneficial for complex projects with larger teams - for small teams or simple projects, it can become overengineering. Separation of concerns is the core benefit - keeping domain logic separate from implementation details makes code mor...

Getting a (vague) understanding of error handling in Rust

When is it OK to panic in Go?

#​548 — April 2, 2025 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly A Guide to Optimizing for High Performance in Go — An in-progress collection of technical articles aimed at helping Go developers write faster, more efficient apps. The initial foc...

More predictable benchmarking with testing.B.Loop

Better benchmark looping in Go 1.24.

Go 1.24.2-1 and 1.23.8-1 Microsoft builds now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. The post Go 1.24.2-1 and 1.23.8-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

Summary of reading: January - March 2025

"The Birth of Britain: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I" by Winston Churchill - yes, that Churchill :) While it was started in the 1930s, the writing of this 4-volume history of Britain and its former colonites was interrupted by WWII and Churchill's...

Deferred teardown closure in Go testing

While watching Mitchell Hashimoto’s excellent talk on Go testing, I came across this neat technique for deferring teardown to the caller. Let’s say you have a helper function in a test that needs to perform some cleanup afterward. You can’t run the teardown insi...

Deferred teardown closure in Go testing

While watching Mitchell Hashimoto’s excellent talk on Go testing, I came across this neat technique for deferring teardown to the caller. Let’s say you have a helper function in a test that needs to perform some cleanup afterward. You can’t run the teardown insi...

Deferred teardown closure in Go testing

While watching Mitchell Hashimoto’s excellent talk on Go testing, I came across this neat technique for deferring teardown to the caller. Let’s say you have a helper function in a test that needs to perform some cleanup afterward. You can’t run the teardown insi...