comparisons
Go CLI Frameworks in 2026: Cobra vs urfave/cli vs Bubble Tea
Go CLI framework showdown for 2026: Cobra vs urfave/cli vs Bubble Tea. Real code, boilerplate counts, and when to reach for each, after building all three.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
LangGraph vs CrewAI vs OpenAI Agents SDK: The 2026 Verdict
LangGraph vs CrewAI vs OpenAI Agents SDK compared for 2026: architecture, real code, pricing, and which multi-agent framework to pick for production work.
Modern Go in 2026: New Language Features, Faster Runtime, and Where It Wins
A field guide to modern Go in 2026: iterators, generic methods, Green Tea GC, JSON v2, and where Go still beats Rust for real backend and AI agent work.
Python Lazy Imports (PEP 810): The Startup Speedup, Benchmarked
EU AI Act Delayed to 2027: What Developers Need to Know
Kimi K3 Review: The 2.8T Open Model That Beats Claude on Paper
Software Engineer Salary in Europe 2026: What You Actually Earn
Software engineer salary in Europe for 2026, country by country: from €120K in Zurich to €30K in Bucharest, and why net pay beats the US gap you'd expect.
Go's JSON v2 (encoding/json/v2): Faster, Stricter, and What Breaks
Go's encoding/json/v2 is a reported 2–10x faster at unmarshaling but flips v1 defaults: duplicate keys, nil slices, case matching. How to enable it and migrate.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
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python, go, things I actually built and shipped
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x vs y vs z — benchmarks, pricing, real DX
27 jul
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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.