reviews
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.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
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.
Nemotron 3: How a Mamba-Transformer Hybrid Runs 1M Tokens
AI Agent Memory: How LLM Agents Remember Across Sessions
msgspec vs Pydantic v2: When the Speed Gap Pays Off
How to Build an AI Agent in Go (From Scratch, No Framework)
Build an AI agent in Go from scratch: a tool-calling loop against the Anthropic API in ~120 lines, no frameworks, with real code and the gotchas I hit.
Django-Bolt Review: Rust-Powered Django, FastAPI Speed
Django-Bolt puts Actix and Rust under Django to hit 188K RPS. I dug through the source and benchmarks — where it beats FastAPI, and where the speed evaporates.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
17 jul
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python, go, things I actually built and shipped
19 jul
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x vs y vs z — benchmarks, pricing, real DX
14 jul
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22 jul
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tech hiring data, EU/Cyprus angle, salary reports
20 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.