Designing Demos That Don’t Lie: A Demo Engineer’s Guide
There’s a special kind of dread that comes from watching a demo you know will never survive first contact with a real codebase. On the surface, it loo…
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Who is actually responsible for Web Accessibility?
Who is responsible for making sure software is accessible? If your short answer is the front-end development team, I'm sorry to say that your software…
Agile, After Agile
First published at memex.ai Extreme AI Programming #1 — Agile, After Agile Kent Beck in 1999. A stuck team that hadn't shipped in months. The develope…
Why We Built Plainform and What It Means for Your Next Project
There is a moment every developer knows well. You have an idea. It is a good one. You open your editor, create a new project, and then reality sets in…
@agent — Code Annotations for AI Agents
@agent — Code Annotations for AI Agents AI agents are now a routine part of how code gets read, refactored, and extended. They are a fourth audience a…
Rust's Zero-Cost Abstractions, What Monomorphization Actually Does to Your Code
"Zero-cost abstractions" is one of Rust's core promises. You can write generic, composable, high-level code and the compiler will produce the same mac…
The Go Memory Model, Why Your Concurrent Code Might Be Lying to
You write two goroutines. One sets a variable, the other reads it. You run it a thousand times and it works fine. Then it breaks in production, on a d…
The future is already moving: New technologies that are reinventing how we get around
Technology around people's transportation has always been there since as long as our memory can reach, but nobody in the sector would deny that over t…
Your Codebase Is the New Prompt
Chapter 3 Deep-Dive: Your Codebase Is the Interface Companion document to "Software Development in the Agentic Era" By Mike, in collaboration with Cla…
Election Educaiton and Assistant app
Building ElectAssist: Revolutionizing Democracy with AI-Driven Election Intelligence In an era of information overload and increasing election complex…
The Future of Software Development: How AI Tools Like Claude Are Rewriting the Code
🚀 Introduction: The Shift Is Already Here Software development is entering a new era—one where writing code is no longer the hardest part. AI tools li…
How SSH Works—and How It Breaks (Part 2): Simulating a Man-in-the-Middle Attack
In this article, we’ll explore how a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack works using a small Docker-based lab. We’ll simulate how an attacker can steal cr…
The Untold issues with AI job-takeover theory ( chapter 1)
TLDR: AI is an abstraction for coding. And like all abstractions, it never replaces the need for the underlying knowledge. The Theory There's an ongoi…
A Tiny Retry Utility That Saves You From Random Failures
Sometimes the difference between a flaky system and a reliable one is just a few lines of retry logic. Network calls fail, APIs timeout, and transient…
9 Rules That’ll Help You Write Clean Code
You write code every day. It runs. Tests pass. Tickets close. But six months later, you open that same file and think: “Who wrote this?” It was you. A…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why Your First 6 Months With a Framework Are a Lie
Hi there! I love learning. Who doesn't? I'm a firm believer that learning compounds over time and is the greatest leverage anyone has, in every area o…
Best Apideck Alternatives: Unified API Platforms
If you have ever tried to build product integrations yourself, you know what a time sink it is. OAuth pains. API docs that never match what the respon…
🚖 Designing an Uber/Ola-like Ride Booking System (LLD + UML Approach)
When I started practicing Low-Level Design, I realized that jumping directly into drawing UML diagrams often leads to messy, confusing designs. So ins…
Unpacking Git 2.54: Key Updates and Their Impact on Tech Startups
Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of software development, the tools we use to manage our projects can significantly affect efficiency and co…
Are we Using AI at the Wrong Scale?
What if I told you that AI can be used more efficiently - and in a way that actually enhances everybody's life and work quality? That the AI bubble di…
Why Your Microservices Should Talk Like Functions, Not URLs (A Practical gRPC Walkthrough in Go)
In most microservice setups, service-to-service communication starts the same way: GET /api/v1/users/{id} It works. It’s familiar. It’s easy to debug.…
We’re Not Solving Problems Anymore - We’re Just Typing “Next”
I spent my day typing "next". Not writing code. Not solving problems. Just... "next". I've been developing for two decades: web things, applications, …
On Things
It is cheaper to make a thing next year than it is to make it today. It is cheaper to maintain a thing next year than it is to maintain it today. Ther…
Why Your AI Productivity Dashboard Is Lying to You
Chapter 2 Deep-Dive: The Measurement Problem Companion document to " Software Development in the Agentic Era " By Mike, in collaboration with Claude (…
Protecting .NET String Values by Hiding Them in Machine Code DLLs
Introduction Every .NET developer should understand just how critical source code protection is for preventing intellectual property loss. Whether you…
How We Integrate AI Into Real Mobile and Web Apps
Every second client conversation at Zartek in 2026 starts the same way. "Can we add AI to this?" Sometimes it's a great idea. Sometimes it really isn'…
AI-Native Workflow: The Operating Manual for Your Agent
Imagine your first day on a new team. The codebase is well organized, the docs are written, the linter is configured. Nobody, however, tells you how t…
Rebuilding TLS, Part 3 — Building Our First Handshake
Overview: Where we are and What Is Still Missing In the previous part of this series, we made our fake secure channel much less fake. We started with …
Rich domain modelling: a library story
Most software doesn't have a domain model. It has a database schema, a set of service classes that orchestrate calls to it, and a collection of user s…
When a Precise Specification Is Not Enough
When people talk about requirements for industrial software, most imagine what an operator sees: process screens, alarms, trends, production overviews…