Decoding the mechanics of high-performance systems.
RAM is up 400%. CPUs cost 15% more. The free hardware lunch is finally over. Welcome back to the 80s, where every byte counts.
Why reordering two struct fields made my loop 30% faster, and what it taught me about how CPUs actually work.
A breakdown of the absolute absurdity of human time, monotonic clocks in Go, and the one true way to store time across PostgreSQL, Couchbase, and mobile clients.
A technical guide to Web Vitals. Solve LCP, TBT, CLS, and Accessibility issues using automated build-time pipelines and vanilla JS patches.
Writing documentation, comments, or even blog posts into the void, and doing it anyway.
DRY is a rule we all know. But at 3 AM with a crashing server, the copy-paste starts looking pretty reasonable.
Building a thread-safe inverted index from scratch in Go. Covers sharded mutexes, lock contention profiling, slice pooling to avoid GC pressure, and benchmark comparisons against a naive sync.RWMutex approach under varying read/write ratios.
"It's just a simple query". Why the distance between a logical requirement and its infrastructure cost is the most expensive gap in engineering.
A forensic analysis of why abusing JSONB for schemaless architecture leads to write amplification, TOAST bloat, and catastrophic query planner failures.
A technical reference on migrating existing Cloudflare infrastructure to Terraform. Includes an automated bootstrapping script to bypass manual state imports and handle API edge cases.
Unbounded concurrency is a reliability nightmare. Learn how to protect your system from OOM kills and database exhaustion by implementing Semaphores and Worker Pools in Go.
To calculate Field of View in a grid-based game engine, you have to cast rays. The naive approach uses heavy floating-point trigonometry. This post explores Bresenham's Line Algorithm: a 60-year-old technique from the era of hardware plotters that draws perfect lines using only integer addition and comparison.
If your game logic knows about OpenGL, your architecture has failed. This post dissects the Interface Segregation Principle in Go, demonstrating how the Derelict Facility engine swapped an ANSI terminal renderer for hardware-accelerated Raylib without changing a single line of game simulation code.
The textbook answer for a 2D grid in Go is a slice of slices. In a systems-level game engine running at 60 FPS, this innocent data structure becomes a performance landmine. This post explores pointer chasing, CPU cache lines, and how flattening a 2D map into contiguous memory creates massive performance gains through Data-Oriented Design.
Senior software engineer working mostly in Go. I build backend systems and AI applications: feeds, search, LLMs, the infrastructure underneath. When something doesn't make sense, I pull it apart until it does. This blog is where I write that up.
