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Notes from the deep end.
Long form pieces on the parts that fought back. Parsers, task queues, and benchmarks that argue with their own conclusions.
5 July 2026 · 6 min read
Converting fancy Word documents to pixel perfect HTML in pure Python
How a simple .docx to HTML task turned into writing an Office Open XML rendering engine from scratch, and what I learned about fonts, painting order, and measuring perfect.
Python · OOXML · Open source
1 July 2026 · 9 min read
I benchmarked 5 Python web frameworks on 10 million rows
FastAPI, Litestar, Django Ninja, DRF and Django Bolt. Same query, same database, same load. The framework was rarely the bottleneck.
Benchmarks · Python · PostgreSQL
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