Master of my domain
Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
Master of my domain
Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
How to make your GNU Emacs commands 'relevant' for M-X
Becoming the engineering manager of the Go team
#497 — February 27, 2024 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Robust Generic Functions on Slices — The core library offers some great generic functions for slices, and understanding how each functions (modifies the slice, creates a new...
Kubernetes Memory Limits and Go
Introduction After writing the Kubernetes (K8s) CPU Limits post, I was wondering what happens when a K8s memory limit is set for the same service. I’ve been hearing at workshops and at Ardan how people are experiencing Out Of Memory (OOM) problems with their PODs when setting K...
The Go 'range over functions' proposal and user-written container types
Gemma, Ollama and LangChainGo
Yesterday Google released Gemma - an open LLM that folks can run locally on their machines (similarly to llama2). I was wondering how easy it would be to run Gemma on my computer, chat with it and interact with it from a Go program. Turns it - thanks to Ollama - it's extremely �...
Robust generic functions on slices
Avoiding memory leaks in the slices package.
Microblog: TestMain can cause one to question reality
This morning a one line change had several of us tearing up the fabric of reality trying to understand why a failing test wasn’t failing, or, in fact, being run at all. Increasingly frantic efforts to upgrade/downgrade Go, run the tests on another machine, run the tests in...
gemini-cli: Access Gemini models from the command-line
This post is about a new command-line tool I've recently built in Go - gemini-cli, and how to use it for LLM-based data analysis with Google's Gemini models. Background: I've been reading Simon Willison's posts about LLMs with interest, especially his work on tools that leverage...