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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.
Introduction to Crystal: The Language with Ruby's Beauty and C's Brawn
Why Crystal is Programming’s Best Kept Secret When I first stumbled upon Crystal, it felt like discovering a unicorn that understood Ruby’s poetry but spoke C’s raw power. This statically-typed, compiled language delivers blazing speed while keeping Ruby’s elegant syntax – no more choosing between developer happiness and machine efficiency. Let’s crack open this geode and explore its sparkling features together. Installing Crystal: Your First 60 Seconds Getting started is refreshingly simple:...
The Great Framework Rebellion: Why Vanilla JS Is Stage-Diving Back Into Development
The JavaScript landscape feels like a never-ending music festival: Every year, a new headline act takes the main stage while yesterday’s rockstars fade into nostalgia. But in 2025, there’s a surprising encore performance—the triumphant return of vanilla JavaScript. Forget the mosh pit of framework hype; we’re witnessing a full-blown rebellion where developers are rediscovering the raw power of native browser capabilities. Buckle up, because we’re tearing down the wall of abstraction and rebuilding with pure, unadulterated JS....
Implementing Homomorphic Encryption: Math Magic for Confidential Data
Cracking the Code Without Cracking the Safe: Homomorphic Encryption Unleashed Imagine handing your locked diary to a stranger and asking them to count how many times you’ve written “pizza” – without ever giving them the key. That’s homomorphic encryption (HE) in a nutshell: performing calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it. As we drown in sensitive data – healthcare records, financial transactions, personal communications – HE emerges as the cryptographic unicorn we’ve been chasing....
Why You Should Sometimes Avoid Cross-Platform Development
Picture this: you’re building a digital product that needs to run on both iOS and Android. Your brain screams “Cross-platform! One codebase! Half the work!” – but hold that thought. While frameworks like Flutter and React Native have their charms, there are times when this approach becomes the development equivalent of wearing swim fins to a ballet. Let’s dive into why cross-platform development isn’t always the golden ticket. When Performance Takes Center Stage Cross-platform apps often suffer from the “translator problem” – your code gets interpreted through an abstraction layer before reaching native hardware....
Hopping into Messaging Queues: Building a RabbitMQ System with Spring Boot
Picture this: your application is humming along when suddenly, 10,000 users simultaneously hit the “Sign Up” button. Without messaging queues, your servers would crumble like a cookie dunked too long in milk. Enter RabbitMQ – the postal service of the digital world where messages never get lost (and no angry dogs chase our delivery agents). Today we’ll build a robust messaging system using RabbitMQ and Spring Boot that’ll make your apps bounce with resilience....