A 2026 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
Rust’s GUI ecosystem has moved from experimental prototypes to production‑grade toolkits. Engineers now evaluate libraries not only on feature completeness but ...
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Published Articles (104)
I built a daily JavaScript puzzle game where a wrong answer physically can't ship
For decades, software development culture has treated the submitted pull request as the ultimate arbiter of quality. Even when automated linting passes and unit...
Programming Languages
•6 min read
I built a JSON toolkit that never sends your data anywhere
When we started building internal tooling for handling sensitive configuration and PII-laden payloads, we hit a wall. The industry standard for JSON manipulatio...
Programming Languages
•11 min read
I failed at time management five times. Then I audited where the time actually went.
I have spent the last decade writing code in several languages, shipping features, and trying to stay productive. Yet I repeatedly found myself staring at the c...
Programming Languages
•10 min read
What makes a Mac voice assistant private?
Privacy in modern voice assistants is rarely the result of a single security feature. It is an architectural guarantee enforced by language design, runtime boun...
Programming Languages
•12 min read
Antes de escrever uma linha de código, tive que provar que aguentava trocar de SO
An in-depth technical analysis and practical guide for software engineers.
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•71 min read
Cloudflare Announces Kitesurf, a Browser Engine for Agents
Traditional browser engines are fundamentally built for rendering pixels and simulating human UI interactions. When we try to run autonomous AI agents on top of...
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How I Decide a RAXXO Tool Needs a Redesign, Not a Patch
Every engineering team has *that* tool. The one that started as a clean compiler pass for a domain-specific language, but over time became a maze of conditional...
Programming Languages
•8 min read
How to Build a Local-Service Site That Can Answer ‘Can You Fix My RV Today?’
The phone rings. A stranded RV traveler needs a mechanic by sunset. The query is simple: "Can you fix my RV today?" But the answer requires checking real-time t...
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•12 min read
My First GitHub Project.
My first GitHub project wasn't a polished framework or a clever utility. It was `LexiGraph`, a static analysis tool that parses source code into a dependency gr...
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•12 min read
Platty Game indev (RELEASE!)
We shipped the `indev` release of Platty today. This is not a wrapper around C++, nor is it a script injection layer bolted onto an existing engine. Platty is a...
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•12 min read
PR#1: Make SurrealDB performance slightly better
Our production cluster runs a modest fleet of SurrealDB instances to store user profiles and activity logs. As the dataset grew past the 50 M document mark, que...
Programming Languages
•9 min read
Running the blog's content autopilot on a Claude subscription, not API credit
When we first architected our internal content pipeline, we defaulted to the standard pay-per-token API model. The math looked straightforward until production ...
Programming Languages
•12 min read
rust-glancer: An alternative LSP for Rust with focus on low memory usage
The Rust tooling ecosystem has matured rapidly, yet one constraint remains stubbornly present: language servers consume more memory than most developers expect....
Programming Languages
•12 min read
Site list scrolls to top on every delete — fixing the missing keepScroll argument across 6 call sites
During a recent code health initiative, our team encountered a subtle UX regression: every time a user deleted an item from a site list, the viewport snapped ba...
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•6 min read
The 4,000-Token Tax: Auto-Disabling Claude Code Plugins You Haven't Touched in 30 Days
Context windows are the new disk space: expensive, finite, and constantly filling up with junk you forgot existed. If you’re building on top of Claude Code—or a...
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•10 min read
Announcing Rust 1.98.0
Rust 1.98.0 lands at a structural inflection point for the language. After years of iterative stabilization, this release hardens three critical pillars: const ...
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•12 min read
Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly | Rust Blog
When we hit the limits of the legacy trait solver during our recent migration to Rust 1.75, the compiler error messages stopped being helpful and started being ...
Programming Languages
•12 min read
GitHub Trending: AprilNEA/OpenLogi
An in-depth technical analysis and practical guide for software engineers.
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•13 min read
What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
When I first opened a `.zig` file after shipping production Rust services for three years, the absence of the borrow checker didn't feel like freedom. It felt l...
Programming Languages
•13 min read
Why I am Switching To UV and why you should too!
Python dependency management has been an architectural liability for years. The standard resolver operates with quadratic complexity, CI pipelines stall on sequ...
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•13 min read
Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a
The project Os8088.com started as a curiosity: can a machine built around the 8088 CPU from 1982 run modern web browsers, legacy CP/M software, and even a vinta...
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•8 min read
The future of development is full-stack
The boundary between frontend and backend engineering has dissolved, not through organizational restructuring, but through language evolution. Modern runtimes a...
Programming Languages
•12 min read
Go 1.27
Go’s release cycle has always been predictable—twice a year, with each version delivering incremental improvements. But Go 1.27 stands out. Hacker News is buzzi...
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•6 min read
Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive
Let me start with a story from a recent Hacker News thread that stopped me mid-scroll. A developer shared their frustration: “We’ve been relying on Git tags for...
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•6 min read
The Two Factions of C++
Walk into any C++ conference, pull up a Godbolt window, or scroll through a heated GitHub issue thread, and you’ll see the same fault line. It’s not about tabs ...
Programming Languages
•9 min read
An Agent's Work Isn't "Done Later" Until You Can Find It Later
Every developer has stood in front of a blank editor, typing a function name that exists somewhere else in their mind but nowhere visible. We've all been there—...
Programming Languages
•8 min read
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
Six months ago, I pulled the plug on Gmail for my personal and small-team email infrastructure. Not because I’m chasing the latest trend, but because the cost-p...
Programming Languages
•7 min read
Beware Management Consultants
When a management firm arrives on your team promising rapid transformation—new abstractions, modern type systems, revolutionary performance gains—you feel the u...
Programming Languages
•10 min read
Multi-Armed Bandit Testing: How It Works and When to Use
Imagine running an e-commerce platform where a new product recommendation algorithm is being tested. Traditional A/B testing might allocate 50% of users to the ...
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•6 min read
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
When we first started migrating our analytics pipelines away from Pandas, the motivation was simple: memory. We had a 50GB dataset of user interaction logs, and...
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•8 min read
Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust
Vector search has become a backbone for modern AI services, powering recommendation engines, image retrieval, and semantic caching. The naive approach—storing r...
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•7 min read
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
Rust has become a go-to language for systems where performance and reliability matter. When workloads shift from CPU to GPU, the language’s guarantees around ow...
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•7 min read
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
An in-depth technical analysis and practical guide for software engineers.
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•6 min read
How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
Every time you unlock your phone or launch a browser, a prompt from Google Photos asks if you want to enable automatic backup. The annoyance is twofold: it inte...
Programming Languages
•8 min read
How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser
The AMD Am29000 (Am29k) is a fascinating relic of the late 80s and early 90s. It wasn't a general-purpose microprocessor like the Intel 80386; it was a high-per...
Programming Languages
•9 min read
The Lonely Men Who Work in Patagonia, at the End of the World
The wind howls across the ice‑capped plateau, and the satellite dish on the ridge flickers. An `ssh` session stalls, the last byte never arrives. For the two en...
Programming Languages
•6 min read
A Detector That Only Ever Says "Clean" Proves Nothing
As software engineers, we rely heavily on various detectors and validation tools to ensure our code is robust, secure, and reliable. These detectors are crucial...
Programming Languages
•5 min read
AI Can Find the Failure. Who Decides What the Fix Should Be?
When I'm debugging a complex issue in our production cluster, I often rely on AI-powered tools to help identify the root cause. These tools can analyze vast amo...
Programming Languages
•6 min read
How PDF & Document Parsers Actually Work Under the Hood
A PDF looks like a flat, static document. Under the hood, it is a fragmented object graph, compressed through filter chains, cross-referenced by offset pointers...
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•12 min read
Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite
As a developer working with scientific computing applications, I've often found myself needing to balance the ease of use of high-level languages like Python wi...
Programming Languages
•5 min read
"half-open" twice is not the same state: the bug that shaped breakwater 1.0
During a late‑night incident at a high‑throughput payment gateway, the service mesh reported that the circuit breaker for the upstream broker had entered a *HAL...
Programming Languages
•9 min read
Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul
The Zig programming language has been gaining traction in recent years due to its focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability. One crucial aspect of ...
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•5 min read
A course generator with a quality gate: five ADK agents on Cloud Run
Automated course generation and quality assurance are crucial components in education technology, enabling institutions to provide high-quality educational cont...
Programming Languages
•7 min read
Ever encountered a race condition bug when fetching data, let's understand the solution
Picture this: your e-commerce backend is humming along, serving thousands of concurrent requests per second. A user refreshes their shopping cart, and somehow t...
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•9 min read
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
The "Going Dark" problem refers to the growing challenge law enforcement agencies face when investigating crimes that involve encrypted data. As encryption beco...
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•5 min read
Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
For years, the "holy grail" of data privacy has been the ability to compute on data without seeing it. In the context of AI, this means sending a prompt or a da...
Programming Languages
•8 min read
Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain
Deserialization vulnerabilities have been a staple of security research for decades, but the shift toward more complex, highly dynamic object models in modern l...
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•7 min read
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
RustDesk, a remote desktop protocol implementation, has made significant strides in providing secure and efficient remote access solutions. Recently, it has add...
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•5 min read
SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles
As a software engineer, I've always been fascinated by projects that combine technology and social impact. One such project that caught my attention is SparrowM...
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•5 min read
The rounding bug that almost shipped in a payroll calculator
Payroll calculators are a crucial component of any organization's financial infrastructure, responsible for accurately determining employee salaries, taxes, and...
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•5 min read
CSS Just Got a Parent Selector. Your Forms Will Never Look...
For nearly two decades, CSS has been a one-way street. We've been able to style children based on their parents, but the reverse—styling a parent based on...
Programming Languages
•6 min read
Deploying Microsoft Fabric items from Azure DevOps with a service principal
As a software engineer, I've worked on numerous projects that involve deploying applications to Microsoft Fabric. One of the key challenges we face is automatin...
Programming Languages
•5 min read
Designing an Ejar Contract Registration Workflow: From...
A **contract** isn’t just a legal document—it’s the backbone of distributed systems, defining service interfaces, SLAs, and integration rules. As...
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•5 min read
HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Single-Page Applications (SPAs) have become the norm for web development, offering a seamless user experience by dynamically updating content without...
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•6 min read
Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
The web has undergone tremendous transformations since its inception. From the early days of static HTML pages to the modern era of dynamic, interactive web app...
Programming Languages
•5 min read
heatriskmap: mapas de isla de calor urbana para municipios...
Urban heat islands (UHIs) are a silent threat in many mid‑size municipalities. During summer, surface temperatures can be 3‑5 °C higher than surrounding...
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•11 min read
High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain...
Last week a raw downlink from HiRISE hit the subreddit and instantly exploded on Hacker News. The frame shows a solitary butte, its crown coated in...
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•3 min read
Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
Tim Gowers is a Fields Medalist mathematician who has spent considerable time thinking about how artificial intelligence intersects with mathematical...
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•8 min read
Compilation vs Interpretation
Every developer eventually hits that moment: a script runs fine locally but crawls in production, or a compiled binary refuses to deploy across...
Programming Languages
•6 min read
Data Scientist Learning JS: Promises and resolve()
If you’ve spent years wrangling pandas DataFrames or tuning TensorFlow models, you’re familiar with synchronous execution: run line A, wait for it to...
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•6 min read
Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
As software engineering continues to evolve, the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and software development is becoming increasingly important....
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•5 min read
How to Build a Fast and SEO-Friendly Website with React
When building a website, two crucial factors to consider are speed and search engine optimization (SEO). A fast website provides a better user experience,...
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•7 min read
How to Build an SEO-Friendly Website That People Actually...
SEO isn’t about gaming algorithms or stuffing meta tags. It’s about engineering for humans. When you build a site that loads in under 3 seconds, stays...
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•7 min read
More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to...
A handful of hedge funds, political consultancies, and media intelligence firms are paying up to $100,000 a month—not for premium data center hardware, but...
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•8 min read
Nine green tests and a parser that never worked once
The first time a CI job turns green you get a rush of confidence. It feels like the system is finally under control. In our world that confidence is often a...
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•9 min read
The Retry Counter Said 7, The Config Said 3
When building resilient systems, retry mechanisms are crucial for handling transient failures. However, configuring the optimal number of retries can be a...
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•4 min read
Your Spring AI tests are slow, flaky, and cost money. Here's...
Imagine this: You push a critical fix to your Spring Boot microservice, confident that your test suite will validate it. But when the CI pipeline runs, one...
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•6 min read
Build A Calculator Using Python
Building a calculator seems like a beginner's exercise until you try to make one that handles real-world input gracefully. I've seen production parsers fail...
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•11 min read
Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse
I still remember the early days of the internet, when searching for information meant typing keywords into a clunky search engine and sifting through pages...
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•5 min read
Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note...
In late June 2024, a security researcher named Alex Chen stumbled upon something alarming while testing a popular note-taking application called MemoAI. The...
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•12 min read
Rust SIMD on the GPU
I’ve spent over two decades wrestling with performance bottlenecks in high-frequency trading systems. One day, we hit a wall: our payment queue processing...
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•5 min read
Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler
Recursion is a powerful tool, but in systems programming, it comes with a critical flaw: unbounded stack growth. A poorly designed recursive function can...
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•5 min read
Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself
I’ve spent a lot of time staring at satellite tiles on a monitor, wondering what it would feel like to hold the same data in my hands. A paper globe is a...
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•10 min read
A 200 response is not a page, and your policy check is...
The dashboard shows `200 OK`. The WAF logs say “Allow”. The auditor marks the access control as “Passed”. In reality the policy engine evaluated a `<div id="roo...
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•6 min read
Learning, Building & Teaching: My Journey Begins on DEV
As a developer, I've come to realize that continuous learning is essential for staying relevant in the ever-changing landscape of programming languages....
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•5 min read
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
The IBM XT, 286, and 386 systems were groundbreaking machines in their time, but their operating systems often lacked the user-friendly interface and...
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•5 min read
Pytest Built-in Fixtures
As a software engineer, you're likely familiar with the importance of testing in ensuring the reliability and quality of your code. Pytest is a popular...
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•5 min read
There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order
Magic hexagons are a fascinating mathematical concept that has garnered significant attention in recent years. In the context of programming languages,...
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•5 min read
Building CSRF Double-Submit Cookie Protection in PHP Video...
Admin panels handling video content — uploads, metadata editing, permission changes — are attractive targets for Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks....
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•6 min read
How Can AI Help Lazy Programmers?
The concept of using AI to aid in programming tasks is not new, but recent advancements have made it more accessible and practical. From code completion to...
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•5 min read
How I Built Browser-Based Tools Without Sending User Data to...
As a software engineer, I've always been passionate about building applications that respect user privacy. With the rise of web applications, it's become...
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•5 min read
Service-to-Service Communication — gRPC vs REST
An in-depth technical analysis and practical guide for software engineers.
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•11 min read
Why Vite Asked Me to Choose Between Oxlint and ESLint
I recently encountered an interesting dilemma while setting up a new project with Vite. As I was configuring my development environment, I was prompted to...
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•5 min read
API Pagination Patterns: Offset, Cursor, and Keyset Explained
Pagination is the unsung hero of API design – or the villain, depending on how you've felt after debugging a slow admin dashboard at 2 AM. When you're...
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•12 min read
Do you assume or confirm?
Last month, a single misplaced assumption took down a payment processing system for six hours. The code assumed that a card number would always be exactly...
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•9 min read
Ed25519 vs ECDSA: Why the Nonce Decides Everything
When it comes to cryptographic signatures, two popular algorithms stand out: Ed25519 and ECDSA. Both are widely used for securing data and communications,...
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•6 min read
I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
Last month, our team was debugging why a fleet of Raspberry Pi 4Bs in our edge monitoring network kept rebooting during video processing workloads. We'd...
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•10 min read
LiveAvaBot Developer API: Embed Telegram Video Avatar...
Modern applications need dynamic video avatars for user personalization, but integrating Telegram-based video processing is complex. The LiveAvaBot API...
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•9 min read
Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it's Sao...
What happens when a systems thinker retires and applies algorithmic principles to forgotten urban land? In 2015,José Carlos Vieira—a former IT consultant...
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•8 min read
Tapo H100: Cellar Humidity Monitoring in Home Assistant
Cellars and basements are notorious for unpredictable humidity levels that can ruin everything from stored wine to antique furniture. The Tapo H100 sensor...
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•5 min read
Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI
In our production cluster, we've encountered numerous instances of performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and synchronization issues stemming from...
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•5 min read
Using JooqTemplate implement UserService Demo
Let's cut right to it: working with databases in Java applications often feels like herding cats. You've got raw JDBC calls that are verbose and...
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•10 min read
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
The Nepalese government's recent collaboration with Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) marks a pivotal shift in global cybersecurity infrastructure. This partnership...
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•8 min read
Why Hypothesis Testing is the Backbone of Data Science
Data science has become an essential component of modern businesses, enabling organizations to extract insights from vast amounts of data and make informed...
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•5 min read
Why Plumeria?
Let's cut through the noise. You're building distributed systems that need to handle millions of requests per second, and every millisecond matters....
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•6 min read
Wyzer Programming Language
When designing a new programming language, it's essential to consider the needs of modern software development. The Wyzer programming language aims to...
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•5 min read
Express 5 on µWebSockets: same middleware, 2x to 7x
We hit a wall at 14,200 requests per second. Single core. A Node.js service sitting behind an nginx proxy, doing what it was told — auth checks, rate...
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•10 min read
GİVE ME FEEDBACK
When I'm knee-deep in a complex codebase at 2 AM, debugging a race condition that only manifests in production, I don't want to wait for a full compilation...
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•11 min read
How SVG-to-PNG Conversion Actually Works in the Browser
SVG is XML. PNG is a grid of pixels. Between those two formats sits one of the most underappreciated feats in browser engineering: real-time vector...
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•11 min read
Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers
Quantum computing remains one of the most opaque domains in software engineering. The hardware is expensive, the abstraction layers are immature, and the...
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•12 min read
The check that could not fail
Last year, a teammate merged a PR that added `crypto_wallet` to our payment method enum. The `switch` statement in our dispatch logic got a new `case`, but...
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•11 min read
The Crash JavaScript Couldn't Catch: Fixing Android Native...
At 2:47 AM, our pager went off. Crash rate spiked from 0.3% to 4.7% in twelve minutes. The app — a React Native payments platform serving 50,000 daily...
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•11 min read
What I love about Django
Last March, a colleague told me I was over-engineering a internal reporting dashboard. "Just use Flask," he said. "It's two endpoints and a table." I agreed to ...
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•8 min read