I Built My Own Blog Engine (Because I Refuse to Negotiate with Markdown Toolchains)

Let me clarify something immediately. First the repo is here lol: https://github.com/julienlargetpiet/blog, and second This is not a “framework”. This is not…

Streaming a MariaDB Dump from Go: Pipes, Syscalls, Backpressure and the Runtime

We start from a very simple handler: spawn mysqldump, capture its stdout, and stream it directly to the browser. No intermediate file.…

🧠 Dispatch Responsibility: C++ Compile-Time Power vs Go Runtime Reflection

When comparing C++ and Go, one of the most interesting differences is not syntax, not performance, and not even generics — it…

Building InFoEnd: An End-to-End Encrypted Chatroom in Go

Introduction InFoEnd is my first experiment with building a secure chatroom application in Go. The goal: create a real-time messaging system where…

Building an HTTP Server in Rust Without a Framework

All code excerpts below are highlights of the full implementation. See the complete source on GitHub: julienlargetpiet/HTTP_Server. Why write your own server?…

Building an Encrypted Terminal Chatroom in C — A Personal Engineering Story

I built a tiny chatroom that runs entirely in the terminal, written in C, with all messages encrypted. This article is my…

Simple Compression Algorithm

Ghost in the Shell, 1995 I've just finished implementing a simple text compression algorithm in C++, i will talk about its implementation…