What '<code>sh -x</code>' mostly doesn't tell you about a shell script
Fake Clocks, Real Guarantees: Inside Go's synctest
The first time I reached for testing/synctest, I assumed it was a sleep helper with better manners. The public API is small enough to support that assumption: synctest.Test(t, func(t *testing.T) { ... }) synctest.Wait() synctest.Sleep(d) // new in Go 1.27 Three functions, one obv...
A plan to bring generic collections to Go 1.28
#612 — July 31, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Go's Proposals for Generic Collection Types in Go 1.28 — An umbrella proposal from Go's Collections working group covering several collection data structures intended for the event...
Solving my problem with the Emacs Lisp byte compilation checker
Compute
I said that it’s likely that AI layers commoditize like everything else has. The harness, the planning loop, tools use patterns, the memory files, the protocols, context management, etc. I have watched ideas in this layer go from novel to table stakes in a few months. Every...
Getting a minimal environment for a third party GNU Emacs package
Supervised fire-and-forget in Go
A bounded worker pool for small background tasks, with task-owned contexts, panic recovery, and graceful shutdown.
Go can't kill a stuck goroutine
#611 — July 24, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly GoMLX: Accelerated Machine Learning Framework for Go — A Python-free, idiomatically Go alternative to TensorFlow or PyTorch. It's come a long way since we linked to it last, with m...
What is Inference?
Welcome to a new series! For most developers today, using a large language model means one thing: an HTTP call to somebody else’s computer. You send a prompt to an API, tokens come back, and everything in between is somebody else’s magic. But here’s what I find...
Zero sum games
I’m relatively new to ML/AL. I spent most of my career in commodity layers claiming to do boring things, and I’m still learning this field’s history, its culture, and its assumptions. So take this as an outsider’s observation. There is one assumption I kee...