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...
Strategy pattern in Go
These days, I don’t build hierarchical types through inheritance even when writing languages that support it. Type composition has replaced almost all of my use cases where I would’ve reached for inheritance before. I’ve written1 about how to escape the template...
Strategy pattern in Go
These days, I don’t build hierarchical types through inheritance even when writing languages that support it. Type composition has replaced almost all of my use cases where I would’ve reached for inheritance before. I’ve written about how to escape the template...
Strategy pattern in Go
These days, I don’t build hierarchical types through inheritance even when writing languages that support it. Type composition has replaced almost all of my use cases where I would’ve reached for inheritance before. I’ve written about how to escape the template...
Strategy pattern in Go
Replace inheritance with the Strategy pattern in Go using interfaces. Achieve composable, testable code without class hierarchies.
Gotcha: Don't try and authenticate to URLs generated by GitHub Actions Artifacts v4
I recently spotted GitHub's announcement about the new v4 release for working with GitHub Actions Artifacts and impressed with the performance increase they mentioned, wanted to jump on it. However, I noticed that my API requests to fetch the uploaded artifacts have been failing...
Understanding a recent optimization to Go's <code>reflect.TypeFor</code>