Newsletter - March 29th 2024

My newsletters are a handful of articles I’ve read that I think are interesting enough to share. Enjoy!

Utilizing Machine Learning to Curate TIDAL’s Daily Discovery

https://developer.tidal.com/blog/utilizing-machine-learning-to-curate-tidals-daily-discovery

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of TIDAL. Recently, I’ve been reading their open-source discussions and writing some code against their API. One thing they’ve done is open-source their recommendation algorithms. Even if you’re not interested in the technicalities of the ML process, it’s a great write-up to understand how companies think through recommendations. Very few tech companies make this kind of thing public.

Go 2022-2024 and beyond: Let’s talk about AI

https://ajmani.net/2024/02/27/go-2022-2024-and-beyond/

Sameer Ajmani talks about the future of Go and how AI fits in.

Popular git config options

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/02/16/popular-git-config-options/

Julia Evans is always worth reading, and this post on configuring git is no exception. After reading it, I made some quality-of-life changes to my configuration and couldn’t be happier with the results.

Express is back in active development

https://github.com/expressjs/discussions/issues/160

One of the most popular web frameworks has been unceremoniously dragged from its slumber and put back into active development.

Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930

https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/

I spent a couple of hours reading through this database of Frontier Massacres researched by a team at the University of Newcastle. It’s an essential piece of work to help understand Australia’s history and how these acts of brutality changed the nation. It’s also a fantastic use of technology.

A Book Apart is ceasing publication of new titles

https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart

It is a sad day for A Book Apart, the independent publisher producing many high-quality tech books. I still recommend Lara Hogan’s book Resilient Management when the topic arises. Pick some copies up while you still can.

Writing a useful go/analysis linter

https://disaev.me/p/writing-useful-go-analysis-linter/

This is a comprehensive post from Denis Isaev, who runs one of my favourite open-source projects, golangci-lint, on how to write Go linters. This is for fans of good code, AST, and Go.