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...
Notes on implementing Attention
Some notes on implementing attention blocks in pure Python + Numpy. The focus here is on the exact implementation in code, explaining all the shapes throughout the process. The motivation for why attention works is not covered here too deeply - there are plenty of excellent onlin...
How and why PlanetScale built a VM in Go
#547 — March 26, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Go on the PlayStation 2 — If you like tinkering with consoles and shoe-horning Go into new (or old?) environments, this post is for you. It involves TinyGo, C, and a lot of t...