reviews
Perplexity Bumblebee Review: The Supply Chain Scanner Your Dev Machine Needs
Bumblebee scans npm, PyPI, Go, MCP configs, and editor extensions for compromised packages, all without running a single install script. Hands-on review.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Will AI Replace Software Engineers? SignalFire's 80M-Company Study Says No
SignalFire tracked 80M+ companies: engineers are 55% of Big Tech hires, attrition is 9%, front-end roles dropped 25%. The real data on AI and dev jobs.
Mistral OCR 4 Tutorial: Build a Document Pipeline in Python
Extract text, tables, and structured JSON from PDFs using Mistral OCR 4 in Python. Bounding boxes, confidence scores, and a complete invoice pipeline.
Claude Code Dynamic Workflows: Build 4 Production Scripts From Scratch
AI Layoffs 2026: 185K Jobs Cut, but Gartner Says It's Not Working
GLM-5.2 Review: 753B Open-Weight Model That Undercuts GPT-5.5
LiteLLM Vulnerability: 6 CVEs, a Supply Chain Attack, and the Fixes
LiteLLM has been hit by RCE, SQL injection, privilege escalation, and a PyPI supply chain attack in 2026. Here's every CVE, who's affected, and how to fix it.
Rust vs Go in 2026: Benchmarks, Salary, and When Each Wins
Rust vs Go compared with real benchmarks, salary data, and production use cases. Go for 80% of backends, Rust for the 20% where latency and memory matter.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
5 jun
tutorials
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python, go, things I actually built and shipped
25 jun
comparisons
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x vs y vs z — benchmarks, pricing, real DX
16 jun
reviews
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AI dev tools and models, after real use
29 jun
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tech hiring data, EU/Cyprus angle, salary reports
26 jun
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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.