Building a Medical Image Analysis System with U-Net: A Step-by-Step Guide

Building a Medical Image Analysis System with U-Net: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction: The Magic of Seeing Inside (Without the X-Ray Glasses) Picture this: you’re a radiologist staring at an MRI scan, trying to spot a tumor that’s playing hide-and-seek in a sea of grayscale. It’s like finding Waldo, except Waldo might kill someone if you miss him. Enter U-Net – the Sherlock Holmes of medical image segmentation. We’re going to build a system that spots tumors faster than a toddler spots a cookie jar....

June 21, 2025 · 6 min · 1066 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Should Companies Be Required to Open-Source Abandoned Projects?

Should Companies Be Required to Open-Source Abandoned Projects?

Picture this: You’re hiking through a digital forest when you stumble upon the skeletal remains of what was once a vibrant software project. Overgrown with deprecated dependencies and surrounded by the eerie silence of unanswered GitHub issues, it’s the software equivalent of finding an abandoned shopping cart in the woods. Now here’s the million-dollar question: Should companies be legally forced to open-source these derelict codebases instead of leaving them to rot?...

June 21, 2025 · 4 min · 748 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Building a Resource Ninja: Crafting Your Go Application Optimization System

Building a Resource Ninja: Crafting Your Go Application Optimization System

Ever had that sinking feeling when your Go service starts guzzling resources like a dehydrated camel at an oasis? You know something’s wrong, but pinpointing the exact memory leaks or CPU hogs feels like finding a needle in a quantum foam haystack. Fear not! Today we’re building a resource optimization system that’ll turn you into a Go performance samurai. Grab your coding katana – we’re diving deep. Laying the Foundation: Instrumentation Tactics First rule of Optimization Club: you can’t fix what you can’t measure....

June 20, 2025 · 4 min · 782 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Remote Work Backlash: Are Distributed Teams Killing Software Quality?

Remote Work Backlash: Are Distributed Teams Killing Software Quality?

The Great Remote Work Debate Rages On Picture this: It’s 3 AM, your cat walks across your keyboard while you’re debugging production issues, and your teammate in another hemisphere is sipping morning coffee while reviewing your code. Welcome to modern software development! As hybrid work becomes the norm (by 2025, 40% of jobs offer remote flexibility), a fiery debate emerges: Are distributed teams sacrificing software quality for flexibility? Grab your favorite caffeinated beverage – we’re diving deep....

June 20, 2025 · 3 min · 627 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Rust for System Utilities: Building Robust Tools Without the Headaches

Rust for System Utilities: Building Robust Tools Without the Headaches

Let’s face it: writing system utilities in C feels like performing brain surgery with a sledgehammer. One wrong move and boom – segfaults, memory leaks, and undefined behavior haunting your nightmares. Enter Rust: the language that gives you C-level performance with guardrails that prevent you from coding yourself into a fiery abyss. As someone who’s debugged one too many use-after-free bugs at 3 AM, I assure you – Rust is the sanity-preserving superhero we deserve....

June 19, 2025 · 4 min · 728 words · Maxim Zhirnov