guides
Best AI Models for Coding in 2026: Every One We Tested, Ranked
A field guide to the best AI models for coding in 2026: frontier, open-weight, and budget tiers, with real prices, benchmark caveats, and which one to actually use.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Ruff vs Flake8 vs Black vs Pylint: The 2026 Verdict
Ruff vs Flake8, Black, and Pylint in 2026: real speed numbers, what it replaces, where it still loses, and a migration you can finish in an afternoon.
LLM Food Recognition in Production: What Shipping soba Taught Me
How I picked an LLM for food photo recognition in soba: a benchmark, a live A/B that cut scan cost to $0.005, and the prompt work that fixes portion weight.
DuckDB in Python: Query CSV, Parquet, and Pandas with SQL
Faster Than Dijkstra: The New Shortest-Path Algorithm, Explained
uv Workspaces: Build a Python Monorepo From Scratch
Context Engineering: Why Less Context Makes Better Agents
Context engineering explained: why long-running AI agents suffer context rot, what 2026 research shows about pruning and compaction, plus a Python demo.
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.
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research
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
13 aug
tutorials
26
python, go, things I actually built and shipped
29 aug
comparisons
22
x vs y vs z — benchmarks, pricing, real DX
7 sep
reviews
14
AI dev tools and models, after real use
22 jul
careers
12
tech hiring data, EU/Cyprus angle, salary reports
23 julnamewhat it doesshipped
orbiter
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Procedural planets you can fly to: orbit, atmosphere scattering, land the ship, walk the surface — one seeded terrain from map to footsteps. RU.
22 aug
mason
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Procedural castles drawn in pen: 8 styles from Northern Keep to Under-mountain Gate, seeds, ruin slider — export PNG or SVG.
22 aug
living-rig
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Generative hand-drawn faces that live: seeded identities drift through an emotion field, blink, glance around — export PNG or seamless GIF loops.
22 aug
photo-editor
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In-browser photo editor: 20+ filters from Noir to Glitch, light/color/detail sliders, auto-enhance — nothing uploaded. RU/EN.
12 augI'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.