comparisons
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.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Go 1.26 Tutorial: Green Tea GC, SIMD, and 8 Features Worth Knowing
Go 1.26 ships Green Tea GC by default (10-40% less overhead), experimental SIMD, runtime/secret, and a rewritten go fix. Hands-on code for each feature.
Claude Code Pro vs Max: Real Costs After the June 15 Billing Change
Claude Code Pro gives $20/mo in credits, Max 5x gives $100, Max 20x $200. After June 15, headless usage bills at API rates. What each plan actually costs.
GPT-5.5 Review After Seven Weeks: Where It Beats Claude and Where It Doesn't
Claude Fable 5 Review: 80% SWE-Bench Pro, but Read the Fine Print
Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MAI-Code-1-Flash for Coding
OpenCode vs Claude Code vs Cursor: Real Costs and Tradeoffs (2026)
OpenCode (free, 75+ models) vs Claude Code ($20/mo, best SWE-bench) vs Cursor ($20/mo, IDE-native). Real pricing, benchmarks, and which one wins for your stack.
Devin Desktop Review: What Actually Changed When Windsurf Died
Windsurf became Devin Desktop on June 2. Cascade dies July 1. Here's what the rebrand, Devin Local, and ACP support mean after a week with the new IDE.
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research
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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
14 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
12 jun
careers
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tech hiring data, EU/Cyprus angle, salary reports
3 jun
programming
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language deep-dives, idioms, the traps that bite
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.