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My name is Max. I’m a software engineer and a writer. I love building things and sharing my knowledge with others.
Building Bulletproof APIs: A Go(lang) Odyssey Through Clean Architecture
Picture this: you’re building an API that needs to outlive framework trends, survive database migrations, and withstand the inevitable “let’s rewrite everything in Rust” meetings. Welcome to Clean Architecture in Go - where we separate concerns like diplomats dividing contested territory. Today, we’ll craft a TODO API that’s more organized than my grandma’s spice rack. Laying the Foundation Start by creating our project skeleton: go mod init github.com/yourname/todo-clean Now let’s install our digital survival kit:...
Microservices Madness: When Your Distributed System Starts Haunting You
Let me tell you a horror story about that time we built a beautiful microservices architecture… and accidentally created Frankenstein’s distributed monolith. Spoiler alert: Our Kubernetes cluster needed an exorcism. The Zombie Monolith Apocalypse 🧟♂️ Picture this: You’ve successfully convinced management to ditch the monolith. Teams are chanting “DDD! Bounded contexts! Cloud native!” You deploy 42 shiny new microservices… only to discover they’re holding hands tighter than teenagers at a horror movie....
Zig or Swim: A Pragmatic Dive Into Systems Programming Without Life Jackets
Ah, Zig - the language that makes C look like it’s been napping since the 70s. Let’s roll up our sleeves and dissect this modern systems programming contender, complete with code samples that actually compile and analogies that won’t make you cringe (much). First Contact: Installing the Chainsaw Before we juggle memory pointers, let’s get our tools sharpened. Create a hello.zig file: const std = @import("std"); pub fn main() void { std....
When Code Copies Code: The Looming Showdown in AI Pair Programming Courtrooms
Let’s face it - we’ve all borrowed a Stack Overflow snippet or twenty. But when Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot does it at industrial scale, we get legal drama hotter than a segfault in production. Grab your popcorn, folks - the robots are getting sued! The Legal Landscape (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DMCA) The current class action lawsuit (Doe v. GitHub, Inc.) alleges three spicy violations:...
Decapitating Content: A Whimsical Journey into Headless CMS Architecture
Picture this: You’re at a pizza party where the chef keeps shoving crusts into your hands screaming “EAT IT WITH THE PEPPERONI OR DON’T EAT AT ALL!”. That’s traditional CMS. Now imagine a world where you get just the toppings (content) delivered fresh, and you put them on nachos, pasta, or even ice cream. Welcome to headless CMS architecture - the ultimate content buffet. Anatomy of a Headless CMS A headless CMS operates like a neurosurgeon who only cares about brains (content), not hairstyles (presentation)....