Making Games in Go for Absolute Beginners

Here’s a rant I often see in developer communities: I used to love programming because I like building stuff. But my full-time job killed my passion. I spend more time in meetings, fighting over deadlines, and arguing in reviews than working with code. Am I burned out? Is...

Visualizing Map Data with Go and Leaflet JS

Introduction This year I set a personal goal of walking for a total of 1,000 kilometers and I’m proud to say I’m close to hitting that goal. I’ve been tracking all the different routes I take in an app named Strava. One nice feature of Strava is that the app provides access...

Using Ollama with LangChainGo

One of the most exciting areas of LLM-related development in 2023 is the availability of powerful (and sometimes even open-source) models we can run locally on our machines. Several tools exist that make it relatively easy to obtain, run and manage such models locally; for exampl...

There's no nil to panic

#​485 — November 21, 2023 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly River: A Fast, Robust Job Queue for Go + Postgres — A new beta, open-source job queue “for building fast, airtight applications” that’s written in Go and takes advan...

Third party Emacs packages that I use (as of November 2023)

Happy birthday to Go

#​484 — November 14, 2023 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly Fourteen Years of Go — Russ recaps a productive year for Go that included the introduction of profile-guided optimization (PGO), enhanced coverage profiles to improve testin...

Go modules and the domain expiry problem

Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python

Describes a simple Markov chain algorithm to generate reasonable-sounding but utterly nonsensical text, and presents some example outputs as well as a Python implementation.

Retrieval Augmented Generation in Go

I've been reading more and more about LLM-based applications recently, itching to build something useful as a learning experience. In this post, I want to share a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system I've built in 100% Go and some insights I learned along the way. Some li...

Fourteen Years of Go

Happy Birthday, Go!