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Distributed Tracing in Spring Boot Without OpenTelemetry
You do not need OpenTelemetry SDKs to get distributed tracing in Spring Boot. Generate your own trace IDs at the boundary, propaga...
Blockchain’s Bug Tax: The Neo and NBitcoin Mistakes a Linter Spotted
Static analysis with PVS-Studio flags real bugs in Neo and NBitcoin—null dereferences, bad format strings, operator precedence tra...
The Quantum Box: A Logic Puzzle Powered by True Randomness
The Quantum Box is a mobile logic puzzle game that stripped away the predatory fluff of modern mobile gaming. The 3-bit codes you...
How I Mastered JavaScript Event Loop and Concurrent Model
JavaScript is single-threaded but handles multiple tasks concurrently using the event loop, call stack, callback queue, and microt...
I Finally Made It to YOW!
Beside my own talk and the masterclass, I also attended other speakers' talks.
My "Serverless" Dream Turned into an IP Ban Nightmare: Why I Moved to Desktop
I built a Reddit marketing tool on Next.js, but server-side scraping led to instant IP bans. This post explains why I pivoted to a...
How Astro Made My Portfolio 82% Faster to Build
Next.js was too much for what I needed. Astro renders pages to static HTML and only sends JavaScript to the browser when you expli...
No Mouse 30: A Quiet Experiment in Keyboard-First Work
A few weeks ago my wrist started hurting. The typing wasn’t the problem. The switching was. The browser is where most mouse usage...
3:2:1 Is Still Necessary. It’s Just No Longer Sufficient.
3:2:1 is a baseline, not a preservation strategy. Long-term data survival depends on fixity, provenance, true geo-dispersion, and...
What I Learned from Giving People a Choice in Ride Types
How I redesigned a ride-hailing order form for 360M users inside a 7-year-old monolith. Lessons on legacy code, user habits, and b...
How to Accidentally Build a Programming Language While Cleaning Redis
A “simple” Redis cleanup task evolved into a full rule engine. Configurable JSON rules grew to support logic, recursion, traversal...
The 3-Word Advice I Got From Paul Graham
Paul Graham is the co-founder of Y Combinator. He helped shape companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox and mentored founders who wo...
