Fallthrough #17 - Maintainers, Monetization, and Making The Time
Had an amazing chat with Matthew and Angelica about being a maintainer, monetization, making time, and GoReleaser
Differential Coverage for Debugging
Diffing code coverage for passing and failing runs can identify suspicious code blocks.
Differential Coverage for Debugging
Diffing code coverage for passing and failing runs can identify suspicious code blocks.
Rendering diffs for Go's testable examples
Today I've been doing an Open Source day on oapi-codegen - thanks to my employer Elastic, who gives me 4 hours a month that I can work on the project in-hours - and have been doing some work towards the OpenAPI validation middleware for net/http-compatible servers. One of the mai...
Don't Fear the Reaper
#551 — April 23, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Cheating the Reaper in Go — How far can you push manual memory management in Go despite its garbage collector? Miguel peels back Go’s GC internals to craft a blazing-fast a...
Preventing accidental struct copies in Go
By default, Go copies values when you pass them around. But sometimes, that can be undesirable. For example, if you accidentally copy a mutex and multiple goroutines work on separate instances of the lock, they won’t be properly synchronized. In those cases, passing a point...
Preventing accidental struct copies in Go
By default, Go copies values when you pass them around. But sometimes, that can be undesirable. For example, if you accidentally copy a mutex and multiple goroutines work on separate instances of the lock, they won’t be properly synchronized. In those cases, passing a point...
Preventing accidental struct copies in Go
Prevent dangerous struct copies with noCopy sentinel and go vet's copylock checker. Protect mutexes and sync primitives from value copies.
Sparsely-gated Mixture Of Experts (MoE)
In transformer models, the attention block is typically followed by a feed forward layer (FF), which is a simple fully-connected NN with a hidden layer and nonlinearity. Here's the code for such a block that uses ReLU: def feed_forward_relu(x, W1, W2): """Feed-...
Learning Software Skills fast: what worked for us best in the last 15 years
Quick takeaways Focus on applying what you learn - reading books or watching videos isn’t enough without practice Build real projects that challenge you - trivial examples don’t expose you to the hidden complexities you’ll face in actual work Expect and embrace...