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One week to go! 🦾 GoSF is back in San Francisco on October 7th, with @goinggo.net talking about Self-Hosted LLMs in Go. Go, AI, networking, & community. 📍 Antithesis 🕠 5:30 PM PDT 👉 www.meetup.com/golangsf/eve...

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 24/09/2026

Yesterday, @goinggo.net joined the GolangNYC Meetup in New York City. Great conversations, a room full of developers, and plenty of ideas shared around building with Go. Thanks to everyone who came out and made it a great meetup! 📸 Sharing a few moments from the event below.

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 17/09/2026

Go + AI is coming to NYC! Join @goinggo.net at GolangNYC on Sept. 23rd for networking / a talk from his Ultimate AI curriculum to explore what building AI systems with Go can look like. 📍 New York City 📅 September 23rd | 6-8pm RSVP: www.meetup.com/golanguagene...

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 16/09/2026

What if your Go application could handle AI inference directly? @goinggo.net walks through the #Kronk Model Server and how it handles: → Local & remote GPU inference → Real-time VRAM monitoring → In-Memory Caching → Hugging Face models → Speech + image generation 🎥: youtu.be/Sv0ZhQjaa1M

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Kronk AI Model Server Overview: Go-Native AI Inference, Web UI & Context Caching

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 17/09/2026

v1.32.7 Released Version 1.32.7 brings image generation into the model server with new API endpoints and BUI screens, a new OpenAI-compatible audio translation endpoint, Wan2.2 S2V audio-conditioned video support in the Malina SDK, and llama.cpp upgrades through b11017. github.com/ardanlabs/kr...

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Releases · ardanlabs/kronk

Go With Your Own Intelligence! Use Go for hardware accelerated local inference with llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, and stable-diffusion.cpp directly integrated into your Go applications. Kronk provides a ...

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 14/09/2026

Quick overview of the #Kronk model server.

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 09/09/2026

YouTube short of the week is here!💻 This week revolves around “Choosing Priorities in a Career Path” from @goinggo.net t 's podcast episode with featured guest Jonathan Amsterdam! 🤓 🎥: youtube.com/shorts/IhkkO... #ArdanLabsPodcast #Shorts #YouTube #SoftwareEngineering

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Choosing Priorities in a Career Path

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 04/09/2026

That’s a wrap on GopherCon LATAM! 🇧🇷 Thank you to everyone who joined us, stopped by, and shared conversations with the Ardan Labs team. A special thank you to the organizers, @goinggo.net , and the Ardan Labs engineers who attended and made the conference a great experience. Until next time! 👋

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 01/09/2026

@goinggo.net is kicking off a workshop: Ultimate AI, at @gophercon.com LATAM today. 🇧🇷 A room full of engineers, Go + AI, and lots of hands-on learning. Here are a few snapshots from the workshop 👇 #GopherConLATAM #golang #ArdanLabs

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 01/09/2026

YouTube short of the week is here!💻 This week revolves around “Discovering Go While Working at Google” from @goinggo.net's podcast episode with featured guest Jonathan Amsterdam! 🤓 🎥: youtube.com/shorts/FZLlb... #ArdanLabsPodcast #Shorts #YouTube #SoftwareEngineering

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Discovering Go While Working at Google

This clip is from the Ardan Labs Podcast with featured guest Jonathan Amsterdam! You can watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/CNT_9FaVIHI Other Links: Website:…

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 26/08/2026

Checkout the current family of #Kronk stickers coming to a #golang event near you. Check out the travel schedule on the Kronk repo. github.com/ardanlabs/kr...

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 26/08/2026

In my neverending attempts to make these models behave well enough for real usage, @dlsniper shared these non-thinking settings with me this morning and I have to say the model is usable today. That can change by the hour, but it's usable!

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Talking Heads From The Year 2053 @talkingheads2053.com · 26/08/2026

The AI takeover continues in Episode Two. In this scene special guest star @boursiquot.com asks Phineas a question with hilarious results. See the only show with robot actors run on @officialarduino.bsky.social UNQ Q boards & @golang.org / @tinygo.org code on @github.com youtu.be/Pny5TFP2r3U

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 26/08/2026

#Kronk v1.32.1 Released Removes the adaptive MTP draft-count algorithm and its runtime reporting. MTP speculative decoding now always runs with the configured fixed `ndraft` value, while classic separate-draft speculation retains its acceptance-EMA adaptive throttling.

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 25/08/2026

#Kronk v1.32.0 published Brings adaptive draft-count tuning for MTP speculative decoding, an upgrade to llama.cpp (yzma v1.25.0), new codegen-benchmark tooling, and fixes to GLM tool parsing and embedded MTP compatibility detection. github.com/ardanlabs/kr...

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Releases · ardanlabs/kronk

Your personal engine for running open source models locally. Use Go for hardware accelerated local inference with llama.cpp and whisper.cpp directly integrated into your Go applications. Kronk prov...

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 25/08/2026

Latest installment of Talking Heads From The Year 2053 - Episode Two has been released by @deadprogram.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pny5...

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Talking Heads From The Year 2053 - Episode Two

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 25/08/2026

I wrote a program that uses OpenCode to have different models write a Go based tic-tac-toe game. This take a wee bit of time to run for all models. The Gemma4 and the Qwen3.8 models always do well. I wish the Qwen3.8 ran faster. Tomorrow Qwen3.8 Flash is being released!

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 24/08/2026

Here is the "fun" kronk has to deal with for you. ndraft=3 for MTP works great for Qwen/Gemma but not for Ornith. Ornith works better with ndraft=2. llama.cpp hardcodes 3. Kronk uses an adaptive algorithm that can downgrade from 3 to 2 based on sampling, so Ornith runs faster.

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 24/08/2026

This is a simple example of why you need to be looking at diffs when the model/agent is making code changes. This is why vibe coding is going to cause all sorts of problems over time with codebases. There needs to be a human in the loop.

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Jesús Espino @jespino.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My new article, the Kronk SDK, is live. 3 important components: → prep: messages validated, templated and tokenized into a job → KV cache: restore the prefix, decode only what's new → engine: makes your tokens tick concurrently internals-for-interns.com/posts/kronk-... #golang #AI

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The Kronk SDK | Internals for Interns

In the previous article we took yzma apart and found a very disciplined bridge: purego finds the functions inside libllama.so, libffi makes the calls, and no C compiler is involved anywhere. What you...

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 19/08/2026

Ok Kids, new release of Kronk coming soon to fix some performance issues. This model is outstanding and the best I've seen in a long time. It's a Qwen based model published about a month ago. It has been better than the Qwen3.8 27B for sure. huggingface.co/unsloth/Orni...

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unsloth/Ornith-1.0-35B-GGUF · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 19/08/2026

Get ready #golang v1.27.0 will be released today! groups.google.com/g/golang-ann...

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 19/08/2026

v1.31.5 release of #Kronk now available. Best version yet. Plus updated website with new Bucky and Malina pages. kronkai.com

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 18/08/2026

Latest version of #kronk released today gives you a view of how the slots are running and the IMC caches. Check it out!

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 13/08/2026

In this week’s People of ACM, Russ Cox, who was the technical lead at the Go programming language for over a decade, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the popular programming environment. Read the full interview here: www.acm.org/articles/peo...

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 15/08/2026

Mind blown 🤯 Turned off thinking for the Qwen3.8, for the Q8 and Q4 versions. Agent performance is now very acceptable and I have not seen this model create a bad first version of the tic-tac-toe game. The Qwen3.6 Q8 runs lighting fast, but never perfect like Qwen3.8.

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 15/08/2026

Update from my earler Qwen3.8 27B post. #Kronk release v1.31.1 - Increased performance by 10% via MTP changes. - Turned thinking off and now the model is usable and completing tasks better than Qwen3.6. The model over-reasons even in low mode unfortunately.

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 15/08/2026

My analysis with Qwen3.8 using #kronk and game prompt using the UD-Q4_K_XL version on a M5/128GB. Model is slow (10 TPS) and over reasons in low mode, but it has back-to-back wrote a perfect game with the undo feature. MTP is running. At this speed it's a hard model to use.

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 11/08/2026

It’s workshop day at @gophercon.com UK! 🇬🇧 Great to see so many developers joining the workshops with @goinggo.net & Florin Pățan, diving into practical conversations around Go, AI, and production systems. Real engineering. Real tradeoffs. Real systems. A few moments from the workshops 👇

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 10/08/2026

Ardan Labs Connect UK is underway! 🇬🇧 We’re in London in partnership with Ravelin for an evening of networking, technical discussions, & community. Right now, @goinggo.net is taking the stage to talk about: Self-Hosted Inference in Go: No Python, No CGO, No Network Hop Here’s some snapshots👇

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 10/08/2026

Malina support in Kronk produced this image. prompt: a small red sailboat crossing a calm mountain lake at sunrise

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 10/08/2026

Don't remember where I saw this, but it's holds so very true. Especially in this age of agent based engineering. "The cost of productivity is bugs. Nothing is free."

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 10/08/2026

New versions of Bucky, Malina, and Kronk released. All projects running on the latest versions of their respective ggml based libraries. Basic Malina api support coming to kronk as experimental. New mascots (Malina and Kuzco)

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 09/08/2026

Missed a regression that happened with the code I published under v1.30.4. Took me a few hours to figure out what code changes caused it to happen. I'm upset I didn't catch it before I merged. Testing models are tough and many lessons have been learned. v1.30.5 is on its way!

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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 08/08/2026

Kick Ass job as always by @jespino.bsky.social on the release notes for 1.27. It felt overwhelming. I'm wondering if Go fix can be used to change Go code with some of these changes like struct literal field selectors and maybe switching to the new uuid package? victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/

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Go 1.27 interactive tour

An interactive tour of what’s new in Go 1.27: every notable language, runtime, and standard library change, with short runnable examples you can edit and run in the browser.

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 07/08/2026

🇬🇧 @goinggo.net is coming to London for a FREE in-person event Join us at Ardan Labs Connect: UK, hosted in partnership with Ravelin Complimentary food and beverages will be served; enjoy them during the networking sessions! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/ardan-labs... Limited capacity. Register early.

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Ardan Labs Connect: UK 2026

Join us for a chill meetup where tech minds connect, share ideas, and spark new projects at Ardan Labs Connect: UK 2026.

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 07/08/2026

🙏 Thank you, @gophercon.com US, what an incredible week! A huge thank you to everyone who visited the Ardan Labs booth, attended @goinggo.net and Florin’s sessions. If we didn’t get a chance to connect, we’d love to hear from you. 📩 www.ardanlabs.com/contact/ See you at the next GopherCon! 👋

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Ardan Labs | Contact Us

Contact Ardan Labs to discuss software engineering training, consulting, staff augmentation, or development in Go, Rust, Kubernetes, and AI.

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Ardan Labs @ardanlabs.com · 03/08/2026

Meet @goinggo.net & attend his talk at a free in-person event in London! 🇬🇧 Join us for Ardan Labs Connect: UK on Monday, Aug 10th 🎟️ Register free: www.eventbrite.com/e/ardan-labs... Note: Tickets are limited due to venue capacity. Please register early to secure your spot!

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Ardan Labs Connect: UK 2026

Join us for a chill meetup where tech minds connect, share ideas, and spark new projects at Ardan Labs Connect: UK 2026.

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deadprogram @deadprogram.com · 06/08/2026