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Python Lazy Imports (PEP 810): The Startup Speedup, Benchmarked
Python lazy imports (PEP 810) land in Python 3.15. I benchmarked boto3, requests and pydantic startup: the real speedup, and how to get most of it today.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
EU AI Act Delayed to 2027: What Developers Need to Know
The EU AI Act's high-risk hiring rules slipped from August 2026 to December 2027 — but GPAI and transparency duties still hit Aug 2. Here's the dev impact.
Kimi K3 Review: The 2.8T Open Model That Beats Claude on Paper
Kimi K3 review after a week on real code: Moonshot's 2.8T open-weight model tops benchmarks at a third of Claude's price, but it's slow and hallucinates.
Software Engineer Salary in Europe 2026: What You Actually Earn
Go's JSON v2 (encoding/json/v2): Faster, Stricter, and What Breaks
Nemotron 3: How a Mamba-Transformer Hybrid Runs 1M Tokens
AI Agent Memory: How LLM Agents Remember Across Sessions
AI agent memory explained: the four memory types, how the MemoryOS paper borrows from operating systems, and a runnable Python example you can extend.
msgspec vs Pydantic v2: When the Speed Gap Pays Off
msgspec vs Pydantic v2 in 2026: real code, reported benchmark numbers, where the speed gap actually shows up in a Python API, and how to run both together.
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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.