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An agentic loop in Go for a small local model
I run my own assistant on a 9B at home and the tool calling loop in it is a few hundred lines of Go, most of which is there to stop it offering to look something up instead of looking it up.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-20
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Using EditorConfig to improve coding style consistency
EditorConfig has been around for almost a decade at this point. It is widely supported by many editors natively and many more with plugins.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-21
Why not make your own dashboard in 2026
I was checking the same six tabs all day out of habit so I built one page with all of it on it, and it only took a couple of evenings.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-10
It's Go all the way down
Every process in front of my websites is a Go binary now, from the tunnel to the web server to the sites themselves, and the whole stack runs on a desktop I already owned for a few dollars a month in power.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-08-30