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I Used to Love Python's Magic. Now I Default to Go.

Dev.to · Alexander Mia ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

I Used to Love Python's Magic. Now I Default to Go.

I loved Python for a long time. The abstractions. Custom DSLs with that gamified syntax feel....

I Hid a Web Server on My Coworker's MacBook to Make It Talk. Eight Years Later, He Still Locks His Screen.

Dev.to · Alexander Mia 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

I Hid a Web Server on My Coworker's MacBook to Make It Talk. Eight Years Later, He Still Locks His Screen.

Around 2018, I sat across from a coworker — let's call him D — who had a habit of stepping away for...

I Built a Dataclass in 25 Lines of Python. Then I Found Three Bugs.

Dev.to · Alexander Mia 2w ago

I Built a Dataclass in 25 Lines of Python. Then I Found Three Bugs.

Python's @dataclass is great, but it is a decorator. You sprinkle it on, you get __init__, __eq__,...

I Built Rust-Style ADTs in 30 Lines of Python (Pattern Matching Works)

Dev.to · Alexander Mia 2w ago

I Built Rust-Style ADTs in 30 Lines of Python (Pattern Matching Works)

Sum types — also called tagged unions or algebraic data types — are the feature I miss most when I...

The Meta Security Layer: What Nobody Told You About Zero-Human Companies

Dev.to · Alexander Mia 1mo ago

The Meta Security Layer: What Nobody Told You About Zero-Human Companies

I open-sourced a little thing called mesa. It's an orchestrator, paperclip alternative — you run it...