Why Manual Testing Isn't Going Away: A Love Letter to Human QA

Why Manual Testing Isn't Going Away: A Love Letter to Human QA

Picture this: you’ve just baked a perfect chocolate cake. Your robot sous-chef followed the recipe to the letter, but you’d still taste it yourself before serving, right? That’s manual testing in a nutshell - the human taste test of software quality. Let’s explore why armies of automated scripts haven’t (and won’t) replace this crucial human touch. The Secret Sauce of Software Quality While automated testing acts like a relentless kitchen timer beeping “THIS BUTTON MUST BE BLUE!...

May 26, 2025 · 3 min · 538 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Squeezing Blood From a Stone: Profiling and Benchmarking Go Apps Like a Circus Juggler

Squeezing Blood From a Stone: Profiling and Benchmarking Go Apps Like a Circus Juggler

When your Go application starts moving at the speed of continental drift, it’s time to break out the profiling tools and benchmark like your production cluster depends on it (because it does). Let’s turn your code from “meh” to “blazing fast” using techniques that would make a gopher blush. The Profiling Circus Step 1: Installing Your Trapeze First, add the profiling import to your main package: import _ "net/http/pprof" Step 2: Catching CPU火焰 in Mid-air...

May 25, 2025 · 3 min · 512 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Code or Crusade? The Great Programming Language Bias Debate

Code or Crusade? The Great Programming Language Bias Debate

Let me start with a confession: last Tuesday, I spent 45 minutes arguing with my coffee machine about whether “dark roast” constitutes political commentary. This is what happens when you spend too much time thinking about algorithmic bias. Today, we’re tackling the elephant in the IDE: should programming languages bake political bias filters into their syntax? When “Hello World” Says “Goodbye Neutrality” Modern code isn’t just parsing strings - it’s parsing human culture....

May 25, 2025 · 3 min · 542 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Redis: The Swiss Army Knife of Backend Wizardry

Redis: The Swiss Army Knife of Backend Wizardry

Ah, Redis! The database equivalent of a caffeine-addicted squirrel - hoards data at lightning speed and remembers everything… until you tell it to forget. Let’s explore how this in-memory marvel can turbocharge your applications while making session management as smooth as a jazz saxophonist. When Cache is King 👑 Your code deserves a caffeine boost. Traditional database calls are like waiting for a sloth to brew espresso. Enter Redis caching:...

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 627 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Why Your Obsession with Code Optimization is Like Tuning a Ferrari to Grocery Shop

Why Your Obsession with Code Optimization is Like Tuning a Ferrari to Grocery Shop

Picture this: You’re in a code review, casually sipping your fourth coffee of the morning, when someone drops this gem: “Why use a list comprehension here? Dictionary lookups are O(1)!” Meanwhile, the method in question handles three items max. Congratulations - you’ve just witnessed premature optimization in its natural habitat. The High Cost of Early Optimization Let’s start with a horror story you might recognize: # The "Optimized" Approach results = [] for i in range(0, len(data), 1): temp = process(data[i]) results....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 574 words · Maxim Zhirnov