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Learn here how to ship software that lasts, lead engineering teams that work, and run real infrastructure without bleeding cash. 4 articles, 5 guides.

Jun 9, 2026 · 9 min

Refactoring 24,000 lines of legacy code: rename, delete, simplify

One PR, 226 files, 13 tables renamed, 19 dropped, zero features changed. What a large refactoring effort taught me about what actually makes code optimizable.

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Jun 3, 2026 · 13 min

How I took my Rust GUI from 135 MB to 30 MB by ditching the GPU

A process monitor that eats 135 MB of RAM is a bad joke. Here's how swapping egui for Slint, with a software renderer, cut it to 30 MB.

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May 18, 2026 · 6 min

I haven't written a single line of code in 8 months — and AI completely changed our job

Up to 10x productivity, more ambitious projects, higher code quality...

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May 14, 2026 · 5 min

Down migrations are useless, and what that says about our industry

Nobody ever runs a down migration in production. Yet we keep writing them... for nothing.

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