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...

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...

Go is popular.. again!

#​496 — February 20, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly The HTTP Routing Enhancements in Go 1.22 — The Go team’s official take on the new HTTP routing enhancements in Go 1.22: “Go 1.22 brings two enhancements to the net/http packa...