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Lovely Week with Elixir

Context It’s not often I get excited about programming languages since meeting Ruby in 2015. Way before that, drowning in misery of writing university course works in Java, has pushed me away from development. Ruby’s freedom and expressiveness was what pulled me back, and its style has kept me in. I was on the lookout…

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Why host your own LLM?

In the Terminator movies, good relationships beat technological superiority. Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor outwit the advanced T-800 who in turn helps Sarah and John beat the ultra-advanced T-1000. OpenAI’s GPT-4 is currently the most advanced publicly available language model. There are also analyses showing it’s…

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The HTTP Query Method

This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing. This is similar to POST requests but can be automatically repeated or restarted without concern for partial…

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Go 1.25 Release Notes

The latest Go release, version 1.25, arrives in August 2025 , six months after Go 1.24 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.