Fearless Concurrency Ep.2: Managing Threaded Programs and Data Races in Rust

Introduction: Welcome to Episode 2 of the Fearless Concurrency in Rust series! In this episode, Herbert Wolverson dives into the fundamentals of threading in Rust, demonstrating how to use Rust’s threading capabilities effectively while maintaining safety. The focus is on using...

Go and my realization about what I'll call the 'Promises' pattern

A type by any other name would smell as sweet..

#​524 — September 24, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly What's in an (Alias) Name? — Generic alias types are coming to Go 1.24 (expected in February 2025) in line with this proposal, building on both type aliases and generics....

The blog has moved to maragu.dev

The blog has moved to maragu.dev.

Open source maintainers with little time and changes

Ep. 7: Enhancing AI with Message Chaining and Accuracy Scoring

Introduction: Welcome to the final episode of our Intro to Generative AI series! In this episode, Daniel Whitenack takes the concepts you’ve been learning and shows you how to apply advanced techniques like message chaining and factuality scoring to make your AI-driven syst...

My first experience with OCaml

Recently I’ve been motivated to learn more about functional programming and the name OCaml came up quite a few times. I have seen some praise about it from the people I follow on social media and decided to give it a try. I finally finished a small project in OCaml and woul...

Go's great for working with LLMs

#​523 — September 17, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly Building LLM-Powered Applications in Go — The post describes some different approaches to creating a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) server with different toolsets:...

What's in an (Alias) Name?

A description of generic alias types, a planned feature for Go 1.24

Notes on running Go in the browser with WebAssembly

Recently I've had to compile Go to WebAssembly to run in the browser in a couple of small projects (#1, #2), and in general spent some time looking at WebAssembly. I find WebAssembly to be an exciting technology, both for the web and for other uses (e.g. with WASI …