Mariano Gappa's Blog

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Mariano Gappa's software engineering articles, Go projects, game development, StarCraft analysis, data systems, and personal reflections.

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Player fingerprinting in StarCraft in the age of AI bots #AI #Gaming #StarCraft
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Sep 22, 2026
9 months in: building an advanced StarCraft reporting tool with Go & Claude #Go #GameDev #AI
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Jul 14, 2026
Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs 3 Days With LLMs! #Go #GameDev #Programming
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Aug 24, 2025
Mind the gap! #Tech #SoftwareEngineering #PersonalGrowth
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Jun 28, 2025
How We Handle Billion-Row ClickHouse Inserts With UUID Range Bucketing #DataEngineering #ClickHouse #BigData
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May 15, 2025
A Joyful Tale of Golang Memory Profiling at CloudQuery #Golang #SoftwareEngineering #CloudQuery
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Jul 10, 2024
On being parasitical #Ethics #Philosophy #Society
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Dec 28, 2023
Real-life indirection is the root of all evil (and AI agents can fix it) #AI #SoftwareEngineering #ProblemSolving
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Jul 28, 2023
Real-life indirection is the root of all evil (and AI agents can fix it) #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Productivity
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Jul 28, 2023
Building Crypto Predictions Tracker: architecture and challenges #SoftwareEngineering #DataSystems #Tech
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Jun 17, 2023
Cryptocurrency influencers are preying on millennials who found salvation in crypto #Crypto #Finance #Scam
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Aug 25, 2022
10 Gotchas for building a universal crypto candlestick iterator in Go #Go #SoftwareEngineering #Programming
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Jul 27, 2022
Running Golang on the browser with WebAssembly and TinyGo #Go #WebAssembly #Programming
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Apr 1, 2020
A chess story #Chess #Storytelling #Games
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Jan 3, 2020
Let's build a SQL parser in Go! #Go #Programming #SQL
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Jun 5, 2019
We saved $50k/y with a tiny Go microservice coded in a Hackathon #Go #SoftwareEngineering #Microservices
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Apr 2, 2018
How we improved our workflow by piping sql #SoftwareEngineering #Databases #Workflow
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Jun 28, 2017
Ostinato: a chess engine written in Scala that runs on the browser, Docker and the REPL #Scala #Chess #SoftwareEngineering
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Mar 24, 2017
Making the move from Scala to Go, and why we're not going back #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Jan 25, 2017
Diffing streams on the terminal #Software #Terminal #DevTools
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Jul 30, 2016
jira-cli: a lightweight bash script for easily querying JIRA #Software #CLI #Jira
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May 10, 2016
Fixing syntax highlighting issues in Sublime Text 3 #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #TextEditor
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Feb 27, 2016
Projects #Projects #Portfolio #SoftwareEngineering
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Jan 1, 2001
About #Personal #Blog #AboutMe
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Jan 1, 2001