MZMuhammad Zain Ul Abidininzainbuilds.hashnode.dev·16h ago · 2 min readRails Has .second, .third, .fourth, .fifth… and Then .forty_twoOne of those tiny Rails details that reminds you this framework has always had a personality. If you’ve worked with Rails for a while, you’ve probably used positional helpers like first, second, or th00
SASegni Adebainsegni.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 23 min readBuilding a development environment for Monkey: Part 1 - Syntax highlighting with Tree-sitterIntro A few years ago on a quest of learning Go, I followed Writing An Interpreter In Go and built Monkey, a small interpreted programming language. Recently, I came back to it with a different goal: 00
TMTarek Mostafaintarekmostafa.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 3 min readWhy AI Code Breaks in Production: The "Context Ceiling" of Distributed SystemsEvery engineer has experienced some version of this nightmare: An AI assistant writes a clean, elegant service integration. It compiles without warnings. The unit tests pass with flying colors. It loo12M
NGNatan Guzinskiinnatanguzinski.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 8 min readBuilding Oli-Nat: A Statically Typed Language and Its Own Bytecode VM, As My First Ever C ProgramIntroduction Over the past several months, I built a small statically typed programming language called Oli-Nat, entirely in C, with no external dependencies. The project covers the full pipeline a la00
SBSufyan bin Uzayrinsufyanism.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 8 min readWhat std::mem::forget Actually Does to Heap Allocations?std::mem::forget drops the stack-allocated handle without executing Drop glue, permanently orphaning heap metadata within allocator arenas. It guarantees the absence of Undefined Behavior by design, w00
HZHabiba Zaheerinthebytejournal.hashnode.dev·Sep 15 · 6 min readPython vs JavaScript for Beginners: Which Should You Learn First in 2026?If you're just starting your coding journey, you've probably run into this question at least a dozen times: should I learn Python or JavaScript first? Both languages are beginner-friendly, both are in01A
MMMaksim Martianovinmartianov.dev·Sep 14 · 13 min readThe Compiler Stopped Talking About Go: GALA in August and September (0.72 → 0.79)Until 0.75, this GALA program compiled, linked, and printed v=1: val x = 1 Println(s"v=${x +}") The trailing + just vanished. Invalid source produced a working binary. The cause was plumbing, not any10
TTraliranintraliran.hashnode.dev·Sep 11 · 3 min readWhy C is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to ProgrammingMost modern programming languages try to hide how the machine actually works. They wrap developers in syntax sugar, automatic garbage collection, and gigabytes of abstractions. But if you want total c00
KSKalpick Sharmainkalpicksharma.hashnode.dev·Sep 11 · 6 min readAgent-Native Languages: Will Mojo Kill Python in the Age of AI?Python has become one of the most important languages in AI. Machine learning. Data science. Automation. AI agents. Research. A huge part of the modern AI ecosystem is built around Python. So when a n00
Mmarketingintoolscase.hashnode.dev·Sep 8 · 7 min readHow to Track Developer Productivity Without Micromanaging Your TeamSoftware teams need visibility into how work is progressing, but there is a major difference between understanding productivity and monitoring every minute of someone's day. For developers in particul00
