tutorials
uv Python Tutorial: Build a CLI Tool From Scratch
Step-by-step uv tutorial: create a real Python CLI project, manage deps, run tests, lint with ruff, build a wheel, and ship it in Docker — from scratch.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Claude Code Hooks: Build 5 Production Hooks From Scratch
Build 5 real Claude Code hooks step by step — auto-format, command blocker, AI linter, test runner, and context injector. Full configs and scripts included.
Software Engineer Job Market 2026: Two Markets, One Title
ML engineer roles up 59% from 2020, general SWE openings down 49%. Dice, CompTIA, and BLS data shows a 2026 market split by AI fluency. Salaries included.
WebMCP Tutorial: Make Your Website AI-Agent Ready
Anthropic's Agentic Coding Report: 8 Trends, Dissected
Pyrefly vs mypy vs ty: Which Python Type Checker Should You Use in 2026?
Efficient LLM Reasoning: 7 Papers That Cut Token Costs by Up to 84%
Seven papers fix LLM overthinking: Sketch-of-Thought cuts tokens 84%, shorter chains boost accuracy 34.5%, and budget-aware prompting halves costs.
Google Jules Review: The Async Coding Agent Worth $20/Month?
Google Jules queues coding tasks, runs them in a cloud VM, and opens PRs while you sleep. Free tier gives 15 tasks/day. Here's what worked and what didn't.
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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.