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About

Hi, thanks for visiting my personal website! My name is Alex Pliutau. I am currently employed as a Staff Software Engineer at BINARLY. I write this blog in my personal time to share my experience and knowledge about software development, Golang, and few other topics. I also write...

Self-driving people

Your car may be self-driving (up to a point), but are you? Independent-minded people sooner or later reach a point where they can’t rise higher without becoming the boss. Should you go it alone and start your own business?

Test state, not interactions

With the advent of LLMs, the temptation to churn out a flood of unit tests for a false veneer of productivity and protection is stronger than ever. My colleague Matthias Doepmann recently fired a shot at AI-generated tests that don’t validate the behavior of the subject under t...

Some notes on (Tony Finch's) exponential rate limiting in practice

I don't know how to implement proper ratelimiting (well, maybe I do now)

How Benjamin Franklin Invented Machine Learning in 1720

How a teenage printer’s writing exercise reverse-engineered the timeless principles of learning. The core algorithm that powers today’s most advanced artificial intelligence wasn’t born in Silicon Valley or has anything to do with computers. It was engineered in...

Projects

Here are some of the projects I work on in my free time: practice-go A collection of Go programming challenges with tests and benchmarks. paypal Go client for PayPal REST API.

Setting up `govulncheck` in GitHub Actions with GitHub Code Scanning alerts

With oapi-codegen, as many other folks in the ecosystem, we've been asked a few times in the past "can you please update this dependency as it has a CVE". I'll generally reach for govulncheck as a way to confirm the impact, given it validates - via static analysis - whe...

Gotcha: referencing symlinks with `go:embed` result in `irregular file` errors

Early in 2024, I hit an issue with Go not allowing me to use go:embed. (Aside: this is one of those posts that has been on the backburner and I'm finally getting around to it given I had a few minutes spare, and I want to test some new functionality in my blog-to-LinkedIn syndica...