Go 1.22 is released!

Go 1.22 enhances for loops, brings new standard library functionality and improves performance.

'I don't scoff at 2% improvements'

#​494 — February 6, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly Testing Out Profile-Guided Optimization on Dolt's SQL Benchmarks — Profile-guided optimization was introduced in Go 1.20. The Dolters(?) created a benchmark and saw small (t...

Announcing GoReleaser v1.24 - the first of 2024

Happy new year! The first release of 2024 is here!

Discussing Forth, C, CGI, Python, Go, and AWK on "Stray Pointers"

This is a transcription of Jim Lawless's interview with Ben Hoyt on his Stray Pointers podcast. We discuss Forth, C, CGI, Python, Go, and AWK.

Retry function in Go

I used reach for reflection whenever I needed a Retry function in Go. It’s fun to write, but gets messy quite quickly. Here’s a rudimentary Retry function that does the following: It takes in another function that accepts arbitrary arguments. Then tries to execute th...

Retry function in Go

I used reach for reflection whenever I needed a Retry function in Go. It’s fun to write, but gets messy quite quickly. Here’s a rudimentary Retry function that does the following: It takes in another function that accepts arbitrary arguments. Then tries to execute th...

Retry function in Go

I used reach for reflection whenever I needed a Retry function in Go. It’s fun to write, but gets messy quite quickly. Here’s a rudimentary Retry function that does the following: It takes in another function that accepts arbitrary arguments. Then tries to execute th...

Retry function in Go

Build retry logic in Go without reflection using generics. Implement exponential backoff and configurable retry strategies with type safety.

One of my MH-E customizations: 'narrow-to-pending' (refiles and deletes)

Using Gemini models in Go with LangChainGo

In a previous post I've discussed how to access Google's multimodal Gemini models from Go (with a nice free tier!) Recently, Google's SDKs were added as providers for LangChainGo; this makes it possible to use the capabilities of the LangChain framework with Google's Gemini model...