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What Happens in 2 Milliseconds: Anatomy of a Single HTTP Request Through a Production WAF

The rule engine is not the hard part. Everyone builds a rule engine. The hard part is deciding what order the checks run in — because the difference b…

Server-Side WebRTC Noise Reduction with Pion, FFmpeg, and RNN Models

This is a sanitized engineering note about server-side audio noise reduction for WebRTC calls. Source article: https://www.lodan.me/posts/server-side-…

Oneconfig: A CLI That Detects Your Stack and Provisions Your Dev Environment

Every repo has the same onboarding ritual: figure out the stack, install the right tools, start the right services, and hope the README is still accur…

My test suite was green. My software was lying to me.

My CI was green. 1,885 tests, 66 packages, zero failures. go vet clean. The build was a single self-contained binary. By every signal a Go project giv…

Every tutorial tells you to add .env to .gitignore. That's not enough.

Here's something nobody talks about. .gitignore doesn't encrypt your secrets. It just hides them from git. They're still sitting on your laptop as pla…

Why I’m Learning Go and JavaScript Together Instead of Separately

Most programming tutorials teach technologies in isolation. You learn a language. Then a framework. Then a database. Then eventually build a small CRU…

I Built a Complete AI Infrastructure Stack from Scratch — Here's What I Learned

I Built a Complete AI Infrastructure Stack from Scratch — Here's What I Learned Most AI projects start at the top of the stack. You grab an LLM API, w…

The Go language server can do some impressive code navigation

Preserving semantic styles from DOCX/ODT in Go

Preserving semantic styles from DOCX/ODT in Go Most manuscript conversion tools are very good at moving text from one format to another. That sounds l…

I Deployed My Go Backend to a Real VPS. Here's Exactly What Happened.

In Part 14 , I finished HMAC webhook signing. The backend was complete — JWT auth, PostgreSQL, Redis caching, rate limiting, circuit breaker, worker p…

What actually happens when you run `go run main.go`

Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lr…

I built a Spotify recently-played banner for GitHub — without registering an OAuth app

Most "Spotify for GitHub README" projects share the same setup story: go to the Spotify developer dashboard, register an app, grab a client ID and sec…

I Couldn't Find a Production-Ready Go Framework for AI Agents. So I Built One.

How I built a production-grade Go framework for conversational AI agents — and the architecture decisions that actually matter. Fifteen years of writi…

How hard can it be to build a CI/CD system?

How hard can it be to build a CI/CD system? That question stuck with me long enough that I actually started building one. Not because someone asked me…

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I turned an abandoned Go project into a full terminal Arcade Game GitHub “Finish-Up-A-Thon” Challenge Submission Rad Ghost Rad Ghost Rad Ghost Follow …

Go Modules in Practice: Init, Tidy, Vendor, and Publishing Packages

As a backend engineer, I have worked on many services where the hard part was not only writing the code. The hard part was keeping the project clean, …

The Golang Trinity: Functions, Methods, Interfaces

Function : Does something with inputs Method Does something attached to a type Interface Says what methods a type must have A method is a function wit…

Create Your First Linter in Go

What is a linter A linter is a static code analysis tool that scans source code without executing it. It flags programming errors, bugs, security vuln…

rdev-go-ddgen: Automating Domain Directory Boilerplate for Go Applications

When building robust backend APIs in Go, maintaining a consistent, clean architectural pattern across domain directories is essential for scalability.…

I Built a Screenshot-to-React Generator in 3 Hours

I got tired of translating Figma screens and UI screenshots into JSX before I could touch any real frontend work — routing, state, architecture, the s…

Retrying HTTP Requests in Go Without Making It Worse

When you call an external API, things go fine until they don't. A network blip, a server restart, a rate limit. So you add a retry, and most of the ti…

The Container Runtime Nobody Told You About (And Four Others)

Here's something the container ecosystem doesn't say loudly enough: runc is not the only option, and for a growing number of production workloads, it'…

Mastering Context in Go: A Senior Engineer’s Playbook for Lifecycle Management

When you are architecting backend systems, distributed architectures, and microservices, one of the biggest challenges is not just making your code ru…

CLI wrapper for Cloudflare Tunnel with Zero Trust

I got tired of configuring Cloudflare Zero Trust manually, so I built a 15s CLI wrapper. Every time I wanted to expose a new local service (like Grafa…

From Template to Production-Shaped: An AI-Native Dev Flow for Go Side Projects

I wanted my next side project to look like the kind of code I'd ship at work — hexagonal architecture, sqlc, depguard, integration tests — without the…

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Original Kubernetes Dashboard — retired upstream, upgraded to Angular 21.

Original Kubernetes Dashboard — retired upstream, upgraded to Angular 21. Background The official Kubernetes Dashboard was archived in January 2026. T…

Zero Heap Allocations at 1.18 GB/s: Deep Dive into ForgeZero 4.0.x

What happens when you migrate a system tool from pure Node.js to Go, strip out the standard GC-heavy paths, and force a file system engine to hit 0 al…

Logs in code

Image from thumbs.dreamstime.com When writing code, many developers especially junior level, don't understand the importance of having logs in their c…

Which package is bloating your Docker image?

layer-blame is git blame for image layers — it names the package responsible for every byte. Here's what it prints when you point it at a stock Alpine…