tutorials
Chrome DevTools MCP: Give Your AI Coding Agent Browser Eyes
Set up Chrome DevTools MCP with Claude Code, Cursor, or Gemini CLI in 5 minutes. 44 tools for debugging, performance, network, and browser automation.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Gemini CLI Tutorial: Setup, Configuration, and a Real Python Project
Set up Google's free Gemini CLI in 5 minutes, configure GEMINI.md, add MCP servers, and build a Python project — all on the 1,000 requests/day free tier.
AI Agent Guardrails That Work: 4 Production Wipes, 4 Fixes
AI agent guardrails from 4 real production wipes — PocketOS, Replit, Amazon. Scoped tokens, destructive-action gates, isolated backups, plan-first mode.
Big Tech Is Trading 100K Jobs for $725B in AI Infrastructure
MarkItDown vs Docling vs Marker: PDF to Markdown for LLMs
GPT-5.4 vs Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro for Coding (May 2026)
FastMCP in Python: Build a Real MCP Server (2026 Guide)
Build a production-ready MCP server in Python with FastMCP 3.2 — tools, resources, prompts, GitHub OAuth proxy, MCP Inspector, and Claude Desktop hookup.
Python t-strings (PEP 750): A Practical Tutorial With Real Examples
Python 3.14 t-strings (PEP 750) let you intercept values before string interpolation. Hands-on tutorial with SQL safety, HTML escaping, and structured logging.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
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python, go, things I actually built and shipped
12 may
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13 aprI'm Maksim. By day I lead an engineering team at inDrive. After hours I ship side projects (PageBloom, NotesPilot, MyDevKit, startgaze) and write things up here when I learn something worth keeping.
The blog itself runs on an agentic publishing pipeline I built and rebuilt — a slow-moving experiment in how much of a writer's workflow can be automated without losing the voice. It writes, fact-checks, and refreshes; I edit, decide, and publish.