The evolution of Java: from 1.0 to 27, and the object header that shrank
Thirty years of Java releases, and how Project Lilliput cut the HotSpot object header from 12 bytes to 8 without touching a line of application code.
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MCP Servers: the protocol that gave AI hands
What is the Model Context Protocol, where it came from, and why every serious AI integration now speaks it.
Read moreWhen the web isn't enough: the Wails bridge protocol
Why some software has to leave the browser — and how a thin bridge lets you keep web-quality UIs while running real native code underneath.
Read moreWhat distributed systems taught me about trade-offs
Consistency, availability, partition tolerance — pick two. But the real lesson is that every system has a personality, and yours is defined by which failures you accept.
Read moreGo interfaces: small is beautiful
The one-method interface is Go's most underrated feature. It's not a constraint — it's the whole philosophy in a single concept.
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