The Myth of 'The Perfect Software Process': Why Flexibility Wins

Picture this: You’re sitting in a conference room, listening to a consultant with perfectly pressed khakis explaining how their “revolutionary” software development framework will solve all your problems. They’ve got charts, they’ve got acronyms, and they’ve definitely got a hefty invoice. Sound familiar? Welcome to the wonderful world of process evangelism, where everyone’s selling the holy grail of software development, and spoiler alert – it doesn’t exist. Here’s the uncomfortable truth that’ll make process purists clutch their methodology manuals: there is no perfect software process....

August 17, 2025 · 12 min · 2554 words · Maxim Zhirnov

Building a Text Sentiment Analysis System with BERT and PyTorch

Ever wondered how Netflix knows you’ll hate that rom-com before you even watch it? Or how Amazon can predict if a product review is going to be a love letter or a digital rant? Welcome to the fascinating world of sentiment analysis – where machines learn to read between the lines of human emotions, one word at a time. Today, we’re going to build our own sentiment analysis system using BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) and PyTorch....

August 16, 2025 · 13 min · 2580 words · Maxim Zhirnov

Why Most Developers Shouldn't Write Their Own CMS

Look, I get it. You’re a developer. You see WordPress and think “I could build something better than this bloated mess in my sleep.” You look at Drupal’s learning curve and wonder if the creators were secretly sadists. And don’t even get me started on the existential crisis that is trying to explain Joomla to a client in 2025. But here’s the thing – and I say this with love – you probably shouldn’t build your own CMS....

August 16, 2025 · 9 min · 1724 words · Maxim Zhirnov

The Wild Ride of Web Programming Languages: From Static Pages to Framework Wars

Picture this: it’s 1995, you’re rocking a dial-up connection that sounds like a robot having an existential crisis, and you’re trying to create your first website. Your toolkit? HTML tags that make modern developers weep with nostalgia, and CSS that… well, CSS barely existed. Fast-forward to today, and we’re drowning in frameworks, battling JavaScript fatigue, and somehow still arguing about semicolons. Welcome to the absolutely bonkers evolution of web programming languages – a journey that’s been more twisted than a pretzel factory explosion, yet somehow got us to where we can build entire applications that run in your browser while you’re simultaneously watching cat videos....

August 15, 2025 · 11 min · 2321 words · Maxim Zhirnov

Why Most Developers Shouldn't Write Their Own Encryption Libraries

Picture this: you’re building the next big thing, and suddenly you need to encrypt some sensitive data. Your inner developer screams “How hard can it be? It’s just math!” Well, my friend, that’s exactly the kind of thinking that keeps cybersecurity professionals employed and coffee shops in business. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: encryption is deceptively simple on the surface but catastrophically complex underneath. It’s like an iceberg wearing a tuxedo – looks elegant from above, but there’s a massive, sharp, Titanic-sinking disaster waiting below the waterline....

August 15, 2025 · 11 min · 2309 words · Maxim Zhirnov