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While searching for my first software engineering role, I wanted experience beyond personal projects. I wanted to understand how real production software is built and maintained. Open source was the
I have been working on a small portfolio of browser tools. They look unrelated at first: a real-world Minecraft map generator, two music workflows, a map-poster studio, an invoice maker, and a logo-mo
I wanted a complete PDF editor running entirely in the browser — page reordering, annotations, highlights, a drawn signature, watermark — on the same zero-upload principle as the rest of my site's too
The alerts have been processed, but the business problem remains A critical business system begins responding slowly, and the monitoring environment immediately generates a large number of
A policy said deny anything under /etc. A Bash call read /etc/shadow and came back {allow, rule: 'trust-bash'}. No human in the loop. The deny rule was still there, still first in the list, still scop
Link previews (those little cards with a title, image, and description) make any list of URLs dramatically more scannable. But you can't build them purely client-side: fetching another site's HTML fro
I Pitted China's Best Open AI Models Against Each Other Last month I did something that probably annoyed a few of my colleagues. I ripped out every OpenAI and Anthropic call from my side projects
Plugin validators are good at answering one narrow question: does this manifest match the schema the harness expects? That is necessary, but it is not the same as proving that the package a user inst
A few weeks ago I watched another Microsoft layoff headline scroll past my feed, a few thousand roles gone, framed in the usual careful corporate language, and something clicked that had been bugging
Imagine poder receber uma transferência às três da manhã de um domingo, com liquidação instantânea e sem depender do horário bancário. Essa é apenas a ponta do iceberg do que o DREX promete entregar a
Python PostgreSQL with asyncpg: Async Database Operations asyncpg is the fastest PostgreSQL driver for Python — pure asyncio, no thread overhead, and up to 3× faster than psycopg2 on typica
Agentic workflows are useful. The problem is how fast tokens pile up. A single do this can turn into dozens of model calls. Context grows every turn. Retries get more expensive late in the session. E
When Spotify deprecated Audio Features, Recommendations, and Related Artists for new apps in November 2024, a wave of "drop-in replacement" APIs appeared. Most stop at parity: you send a track, you ge
Someone searched our API for YIPPEE-KI-YAY. (The Hosed Down Remix) — a Kesha remix from 2025. We returned nothing. Not "rate limited," not "service down" — just not found. Here is the uncomfortable p
Python Design Patterns: Factory, Singleton, Observer You’ve probably stared at a block of code that feels like a tangled ball of yarn, wondering why you keep rewriting the same object-creat
Resolving Replication Conflicts in ClickHouse® Introduction ClickHouse® is designed for high-performance analytics and can scale horizontally by replicating data across multiple
The argument, in one line: a reviewer is a mechanism for drawing a line. Every fix moves the line — but the line can't be eliminated, because it lives on a 3-dimensional surface where multiple defens
I haven't wrote much on Dev.to these last years, simply because I didn't have much to say. The most important thing I've learnt in the past years was how a daily meditation practice will do wonders f
December. A client in Melbourne calls me with a very specific complaint. Six months prior, he'd switched his content team fully to AI-generated articles, no real editing beyond a light proofread. Ran
Mimesis was the Greek word for imitation, and the oldest theory of how we learn: by copying a thing long before we understand it. Understanding, if it comes, comes after. The End of the Craftsman e