AI & ML

SQLAlchemy Essentials: A Beginner’s Roadmap

Key Takeaways SQLAlchemy is both an ORM and a SQL toolkit — pick one, use both, whatever works for your situation. Learn Engine, Session, and Declarat…

Best Free File Diff Tools for Developers in 2026

As developers, we compare files constantly — reviewing pull requests, checking config changes, spotting bugs between versions. But not all diff tools …

Mastering LINQ: Extracting Distinct, Sorted Lists from a DataTable

Working with DataTable objects in C# is a daily reality for many .NET developers, but extracting clean, unique, and ordered data often feels more cumb…

System Design Interview Roadmap (10 Concepts That Matter Most)

Disclosure: This post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or services from the different links provided in t…

Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes)

Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes) After working on software projects of different sizes, I've noticed that…

The moment I stop prompting and start scoring an AI-generated MVP

I do not trust an AI-generated MVP when it first looks good. I trust it only after I can score it. That is the point where I stop writing bigger promp…

AI-Powered Node.js: Why Node.js + AI Is Becoming a Powerful Combination

For the last few years, I've been working mostly with Node.js for building scalable APIs, backend services, and cloud-based applications. Recently, I'…

Why I Built Online JSON Tools Instead of Another AI App

Everyone seems to be building AI products right now. Open LinkedIn, Product Hunt, or Twitter, and you'll find hundreds of new AI tools launching every…

Stop Using 'Skills' for Brainstorming. Build a Hook Instead. 🛠️

You know that look? The one where you ask an AI coding agent to "just brainstorm a caching strategy" and suddenly— poof —it's implemented a Redis key-…

The end of the programmer: 26 predictions I dare you to break

Essay · June 2026 · 26 theses · 3 horizons It's not about AI replacing devs. It's about who holds power inside the software production chain — and who…

We fixed output corruption. Then built persistence. Then TTL. All in v0.6

Running untrusted AI-generated code safely is the obvious hard problem. But sometimes the problems that break an agent workflow look like boring infra…

Building for Indonesia? What UU PDP Actually Requires From Developers (a Practical Checklist)

If your product touches users in Indonesia, the country's Personal Data Protection Law — UU PDP, Law 27/2022 — is now fully in force. The two-year tra…

Integrating Payments in Indonesia: Midtrans vs Xendit (and When to Pick Which)

If you're shipping anything that takes money in Indonesia, two names come up before all others: Midtrans and Xendit. They're both solid, both support …

Django vs. Flask: Choosing the Right Python Framework for Your Business

The real question isn't which framework is better. It's which one you can stop thinking about six months into the project. Key Takeaways Project Suita…

Local Time, UTC, Offset και Epoch: Ο απόλυτος οδηγός για developers

Το πρόβλημα της ώρας Η ώρα είναι από τα πιο ύπουλα προβλήματα στην ανάπτυξη λογισμικού. Αν ένας χρήστης στην Αθήνα δημιουργήσει μια παραγγελία στις 20…

Deep Dive into the Spring IoC Container: Unmasking BeanFactory and ApplicationContext

Why Every Spring Boot Developer Must Understand the IoC Container In the modern era of software development, abstracting away complexity has never bee…

Vibe Coding Has Changed the Definition of Software Development. Here's What Still Hasn't Changed.

A few years ago, asking someone if they were a software developer had a straightforward answer. Developers wrote code. They learned programming langua…

A Practical Intro to Spec-Driven Development (SDD)

When we build something complex—whether it’s a skyscraper, a gourmet meal, or a piece of software—we usually start with a plan. In software developmen…

Beyond the Subscription: Why the True Skill is Orchestrating AI, Not Just Using It

There is a palpable anxiety in the tech industry today about AI replacing jobs. But in my experience, the reality is far more nuanced. Simply buying a…

Google Authenticator integration with Spring Boot

Google Authenticator Integration with Spring Boot Passwords alone just don't cut it anymore. We've all seen the headlines — data breaches, credential …

How to write a compiler ?

How to write a compiler ? This series of blogs acts as an analysis and deep dive into compiler design. Currently I am building EEL. EEL is eBPF Langua…

Any ideas on developing agents?

Few hacks a dev needs

Few things that I adopted, which has helped me to be better developer. To be honest, I forget things quite fast. Journaling becomes more than just a t…

It’s Not the AI. It’s How You Use It

Chapter 5 Deep-Dive: The Comprehension You Trade Away Companion document to “Software Development in the Agentic Era” By Mike, in collaboration with C…

Fallacies of GenAI Development #8: More AI Agents Means More Productivity

This is the eighth and final post in a series on the false assumptions teams make when building with generative AI. The series began with the observat…

Can AI accelerate development in the pi ecosystem

Artificial Intelligence is changing the way developers build applications. Tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, and other AI assistants are maki…

The Hidden Contract of Mastery: Why Complexity Is Yours to Absorb

A few days ago, someone left a comment on one of my open source projects. They'd tried my CLI tool — a 3D print quality inspector called Printsight — …

The One TDD Habit That Saved My Sanity (and My Codebase)

The One TDD Habit That Saved My Sanity (and My Codebase) Quick context (why you're writing this) Here's the thing: I used to think I was doing TDD rig…

Review Doesn’t Scale, Validation Does

Chapter 4 Deep-Dive: From Plan Review to Validation Companion document to “Software Development in the Agentic Era” By Mike, in collaboration with Cla…

Why Prompt Engineering Alone Won't Solve Enterprise AI Adoption

Everyone talks about prompt engineering. Thousands of tutorials. Endless prompt libraries. Countless examples claiming that the "perfect prompt" is th…