🧠 Bash Arrays: From First Steps to Real-World Mastery

Bash arrays aren't just containers, they're a way to control how data flows through the shell. This guide builds from zero to…

Debugging a “Slow VPS” That Wasn’t Slow

My VPS suddenly felt extremely slow: pages taking 3–5 seconds TLS handshake hanging random spikes in latency First instinct: server issue. Reality:…

Statix: A Static Engine That Behaves Like a Dependency Graph

Most static site generators rebuild everything. Statix doesn’t. It rebuilds exactly what changed — nothing more, nothing less. This article is a…

Go Joining Errors — Learn with Examples

In Go (since Go 1.20), errors.Join lets you combine multiple errors into a single error while still preserving each individual error inside…

Statix - 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/Statix, 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…