📰 Dev.to · Asaduzzaman Pavel

How I actually use sync/atomic for lock-free programming when a mutex is too heavy, and the weird edges you hit along the way.

I thought meta tags were optional until my articles kept getting outranked by thinner content. Turns out Google was speaking a language I was not.

I've wasted entire Fridays writing "perfect" mocks for my database layer. I'd spend hours defining...

I've always been fascinated by how rsync can synchronize large files so quickly just by sending the...

My first NixOS flake was a 500-line monster. Everything in one file: hardware config, user packages,...

SvelteKit 5 migration looked simple, but the runes mental model caught me off guard. Here is what I learned after three days upgrading a production app.

Every time I see a new Go project with a pkg/ directory, I already know it's going to be a junk...

I spent a whole day debugging why my agent kept hallucinating tool calls. The model would output...

I've been spending more time with AI agents lately, specifically looking at how to make them actually...

The new(expr) syntax in Go 1.26 should have let me delete my generic ptr[T] helpers. It almost did.

If you've played Factorio into the late game, you know the "Mall" problem. You need a central place...

I've lost count of how many PRs I've seen stalled because someone pointed out two similar-looking...

Everyone talks about "serverless" like it's some magic bullet, but most of the time you're just...

The first time someone asked me to review their pull request, I opened GitHub in one tab, Slack in...

How to use bitwise flags, bitmasks, and iota for configuration in Go. Learn bitwise OR, AND, XOR operations, set/clear/toggle patterns, and practical examples w