Testing & QA

Stop Parsing PDFs at Render Time: A Better Architecture for Structured Extraction

TLDR: The reason most frontend PDF extraction is wrong is that developers try to infer document structure from the rendered visual output instead of f…

Why Building a PDF Engine in Go Will Help You Understand Go Concepts Better

There is a class of projects that teaches you more about a language than any tutorial ever could. Building a PDF engine from scratch in Go is one of t…

Semantic Reification: A new paradigm for random program generation

I Built a Service That Actually Converts PDFs to Markdown Correctly

Have you ever copy-pasted from a PDF only to get mangled line breaks, tables collapsed into a single line, formulas turned into gibberish, and figure …

I Built pretext-pdf: Serverless PDFs Without Chromium

I Built pretext-pdf: Serverless PDFs Without Chromium I got frustrated with PDF generation in Node.js. Every tool had trade-offs, and none of them fel…

Virtual Time for discrete event simulation and distributed concurrency control (1985)

How to Generate PDF Invoices? A Complete Guide from Zero to Service-Oriented Implementation

Generating a PDF invoice may seem as simple as "exporting a file," but in real business scenarios, it connects order systems, finance systems, tax rul…

Сжатие PDF-файлов онлайн. Тест 7 сервисов

Казалось бы, сжатие изображений или PDF-файлов в 2026 году не должно быть каким-то трудным или непонятным. Есть множество онлайн-сервисов, которые сде…

A Randomized Scheduler with Probabilistic Guarantees of Finding Bugs

Generating PDFs shouldn't be this hard in 2026

There's a moment every developer knows. You need to generate a PDF. It looks simple. You've done harder things. Three hours later, you're reading a St…

GraphCompose: как я приволок ECS из геймдева и снапшот-тесты из фронта в PDF-генерацию на Java

TL;DR Я сделал библиотеку для генерации PDF на Java, в которой: Документ описывается  семантически  (модули, секции, параграфы, таблицы, сло…