"Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of Batman. He can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make. The right choice.” - Alfred, The Dark Knight

Hey! Welcome to the first newsletter of the new month. I hope you’ve been finding the content valuable. We’re almost about to hit 50 subscribers, and I’m really excited about that :D

Interesting links for the week

Instead of sending a bunch of random links your way, these are all things I’ve read or seen and found interesting and relevant enough to share!

• AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers

• What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

• Building a Blog With a CMS Using Hugo and Netlify

Something that sparked my curiosity

I’ve been leaning more and more towards using LLMs locally instead of relying on vendor services. With the release of DeepSeek, I find myself using it more often with Ollama than I was using ChatGPT web. I don’t use LLMs for demanding tasks, so I’m more than happy to trade off the slightly lower quality of responses from a smaller model in return for keeping my data private. If you want to try running DeepSeek locally, it’s really easy:

• Install Ollama by going to: https://ollama.com/

• Run: ollama run deepseek-coder

Golang puzzle of the week

You have an array of integers where every number appears an even number of times, except for one number that appears an odd number of times. Your task is to find the number that occurs an odd number of times. For example:

Input: [1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1, 3]
Output: 3

Here’s some starter code:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

// Function to find the number that occurs an odd number of times
func findOddOccurrence(nums []int) int {
}

func main() {
    // Example input
    nums := []int{1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1, 3}

    // Find the number that occurs an odd number of times
    oddNumber := findOddOccurrence(nums)

    // Output the result
    fmt.Printf("The number that occurs an odd number of times is: %d\\n", oddNumber)
}

You can write solutions to this in the Go Playground and share the link with me on LinkedIn to get a shoutout in next week’s newsletter!

Who’s hiring?

• Dragonfly is hiring for a Technical Solutions Engineer in North America.

• Daytona is hiring for a Dev Community Specialist (globally remote).

• Akamai is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer in India.