Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe | Lead Technology Consultant & Full-Stack Engineer

--depth=1 makes CI checkouts fast by throwing away everything but the latest commit — including the tags and history your changelog generator needs.

Stripping a leaked secret from every commit with `git filter-repo`, then extending Part 3's hooks with a protected-ref rule so the rewrite reaches every clone deliberately instead of by accident.

Which commit is actually running in production right now?

A deploy script that refuses to promote anything but a tag with a valid, trusted signature, tested against a legitimate release, a signature from an untrusted key, and an unsigned tag.

No network access, no shared server, no GitHub — just a USB stick and a deadline. git bundle packs an entire repository, branches, tags, and full history, into one file you can clone straight from.

`.gitattributes` merge drivers and clean/smudge filters that stop machine-generated files from causing false merge conflicts and noisy diffs, tested with a real per-key JSON merge and a timestamp-stripping filter.

A file your build script quietly depends on is invisible in git status, works fine on every laptop, and fails the moment it hits a clean CI runner — because it was never tracked and never really ignored either.

Two live checkouts, one bare repo, and a symlink flip driven by a `post-merge` hook, including the classic BSD/GNU `mv` bug that breaks the naive version of this trick.

Backporting one hotfix onto three release branches means resolving the same textual conflict three times by hand — unless you turn on git rerere and let it replay the fix after the first one.

A `pre-receive` hook that checks out the incoming tree, runs a real check against it, and rejects the push at the transport layer if it fails, before a single ref is updated.

The last post in this series is a survey, not a thesis: RFC 9218 client priority on an HTTP/2 server, automatic body draining proven by a counting listener, what actually limits request headers, and six pieces of the testing and toolchain surface from a s…

An interactive rebase drops a commit you actually needed, and git log no longer shows it.

crypto/mldsa lands in go1.27rc1 with full crypto/x509 and crypto/tls integration.

go1.27rc1 removes the last escape hatch back to buffered timer channels, puts pprof labels in crash tracebacks by default, and speeds up small allocations by up to 39%.

Ref negotiation and packfile transfer, traced with `GIT_TRACE_PACKET`, and the CI failure modes they quietly explain: force-push races, corrupted refs, and "Everything up-to-date" surprises.

go1.27 adds a goroutineleak profile to runtime/pprof that finds goroutines blocked on unreachable primitives.

go1.27rc1 replaces the engine under encoding/json with encoding/json/v2 internals, and existing callers will not notice: the v1 shims restore every v1 semantic, including two the v2 docs call security relevant.

Reviewing a PR while you're mid-feature usually means stash, checkout, review, checkout, stash pop, and hope nothing got left behind. git worktree checks out a second branch into its own folder instead.

For as long as Go has had generics, a method could only use the type parameter its receiver declared, so producing anything else meant a package-level function taking the receiver as its first argument.

Seven posts, one companion repository, and a benchmark run against go1.27rc1.

A bare repository and a nine-line post-receive hook turn `git push` into a full deploy, with no CI platform, no webhook, and no build server in the loop.

An HTTP response carried an `X-Hacker` header pointing at a job page.

A test starts failing somewhere in the last two hundred commits.

Diffie-Hellman key exchange clicks once you watch two people agree on a secret number live, while a third person only ever sees the numbers travelling between them.

Somewhere in your codebase there is a GET endpoint with a query string that has outgrown its welcome — filters, sort keys, pagination cursors, a JSON blob someone base64-encoded and jammed into a parameter…

NDC has been trying to replace the GDS for 14 years: here is the political economy of why it has not, and what a bird strike revealed about the system it is replacing.

A delayed feeder flight, a grounded Boeing 787-8, and what a 60-year-old system did when everything broke at Heathrow.

What happens at 05:30 when I walk into Nagpur airport and the GDS steps out of the picture entirely.

Inside Amadeus cryptic mode: the terminal language designed for teletypes that still backs a huge share of agency and GDS-sourced bookings worldwide.

What the PNR locator on your boarding pass actually contains, and why the fare calculation line on your e-ticket is written in a currency that does not exist.

How a conversation on a plane in 1953 set in motion the stack that eventually processes tens of thousands of flight bookings per second, and why that stack is still here.

Imagine you are running a package delivery service.

Imagine you’re running a package delivery service.

🚀 The hands-on journey to Kafka mastery begins here.

I think you should actually try working with Go and NodeJS before coming up with an article.

Laravel is an awesome framework to work with.

What is the One Billion Row Challenge?

Go 1.24 brings significant improvements to its tooling, making development, debugging, and dependency management more efficient.

Go 1.24 introduces the new testing/synctest package, an experimental feature designed to improve testing for concurrent code.

Go 1.24 introduces significant improvements to its cryptographic capabilities, including support for post-quantum cryptography, new hashing…

Go 1.24 introduces the new weak package, bringing weak pointers to the Go ecosystem.

Go 1.24 introduces a significant improvement in how Go handles finalization and resource clean-up with the new runtime.AddCleanup function…

Go 1.24 introduces the os.Root type, a new mechanism to improve filesystem security by providing directory-limited file access.

Go 1.24 introduces significant performance optimizations, particularly in the way maps are handled.

Go 1.24 introduces full support for generic type aliases, an enhancement that simplifies the use of generics by allowing type aliases to be…

Go 1.24 is set to be released in February 2025, bringing with it a host of improvements in performance, tooling, language features…

In the vast realm of programming challenges, few tasks merge elegance and complexity as seamlessly as crafting an efficient algorithm for…

Go 1.17 released to the public on 16th August 2021.

Looking Glass by NinjaJc01 is the free room available on TryHackMe and is the second instalment in the Wonderland series.

Apple announced at the WWDC 2020 about their plan to transition the MacBook and Mac lines of products from Intel Processors to Apple Silicon (ARM) Processors.