https://ajitem.com/ I've been building things since 2011 — container runtimes from scratch, multi-agent AI systems, and 15+ years of making Go do unreasonable things. en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:50:32 GMT https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-3-the-command-line-that-never-died/ https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-3-the-command-line-that-never-died/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Inside Amadeus cryptic mode: the terminal language designed for teletypes that still backs a huge share of agency and GDS-sourced bookings worldwide. https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-2-six-characters/ https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-2-six-characters/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-1-the-problem-that-built-an-industry/ https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-1-the-problem-that-built-an-industry/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://ajitem.com/blog/my-journey-through-the-one-billion-row-challenge-in-go/ https://ajitem.com/blog/my-journey-through-the-one-billion-row-challenge-in-go/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:18:00 GMT What is the One Billion Row Challenge? https://ajitem.com/blog/enhancements-to-go-tooling-in-1-24-go-vet-go-build-and-more/ https://ajitem.com/blog/enhancements-to-go-tooling-in-1-24-go-vet-go-build-and-more/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.24 brings significant improvements to its tooling, making development, debugging, and dependency management more efficient. This… https://ajitem.com/blog/advanced-concurrency-testing-in-go-1-24-exploring-testing-synctest/ https://ajitem.com/blog/advanced-concurrency-testing-in-go-1-24-exploring-testing-synctest/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.24 introduces the new testing/synctest package, an experimental feature designed to improve testing for concurrent code. This package… https://ajitem.com/blog/cryptographic-enhancements-in-go-1-24-post-quantum-readiness-more/ https://ajitem.com/blog/cryptographic-enhancements-in-go-1-24-post-quantum-readiness-more/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.24 introduces significant improvements to its cryptographic capabilities, including support for post-quantum cryptography, new hashing… https://ajitem.com/blog/memory-efficiency-in-go-1-24-introducing-the-weakpackage/ https://ajitem.com/blog/memory-efficiency-in-go-1-24-introducing-the-weakpackage/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.24 introduces the new weak package, bringing weak pointers to the Go ecosystem. This feature enables developers to create… https://ajitem.com/blog/improved-finalization-in-go-1-24-introducing-runtime-addcleanup/ https://ajitem.com/blog/improved-finalization-in-go-1-24-introducing-runtime-addcleanup/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.24 introduces a significant improvement in how Go handles finalization and resource clean-up with the new runtime.AddCleanup function… https://ajitem.com/blog/secure-filesystem-access-in-go-1-24-introducing-os-root/ https://ajitem.com/blog/secure-filesystem-access-in-go-1-24-introducing-os-root/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.24 introduces the os.Root type, a new mechanism to improve filesystem security by providing directory-limited file access. This… https://ajitem.com/blog/performance-optimizations-in-go-1-24-swiss-table-maps-and-more/ https://ajitem.com/blog/performance-optimizations-in-go-1-24-swiss-table-maps-and-more/ Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.24 introduces significant performance optimizations, particularly in the way maps are handled. One of the standout features is the… https://ajitem.com/blog/exploring-generic-type-aliases-in-go-1-24/ https://ajitem.com/blog/exploring-generic-type-aliases-in-go-1-24/ Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.24 introduces full support for generic type aliases, an enhancement that simplifies the use of generics by allowing type aliases to be… https://ajitem.com/blog/introduction-to-go-1-24-what-s-new-and-why-it-matters/ https://ajitem.com/blog/introduction-to-go-1-24-what-s-new-and-why-it-matters/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.24 is set to be released in February 2025, bringing with it a host of improvements in performance, tooling, language features… https://ajitem.com/blog/performance-optimization-in-go-checkmate-performance-using-chess-piece-movements-as-an-example/ https://ajitem.com/blog/performance-optimization-in-go-checkmate-performance-using-chess-piece-movements-as-an-example/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:05:01 GMT In the vast realm of programming challenges, few tasks merge elegance and complexity as seamlessly as crafting an efficient algorithm for… https://ajitem.com/blog/understanding-go-1-17s-performance-boost/ https://ajitem.com/blog/understanding-go-1-17s-performance-boost/ Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT Go 1.17 released to the public on 16th August 2021. The highlight of this release was a 5% boost in performance with 0 code changes for existing code bases. This release brings additional improvements to the compiler, na… https://ajitem.com/blog/looking-glass-write-up-tryhackme/ https://ajitem.com/blog/looking-glass-write-up-tryhackme/ Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT Looking Glass by NinjaJc01 is the free room available on TryHackMe and is the second instalment in the Wonderland series. This room is marked with medium difficulty rating and is based on Alice in the Wonderland by Lewis… https://ajitem.com/blog/will-rosetta-2-deliver-the-performance-that-apple-claims-it-will/ https://ajitem.com/blog/will-rosetta-2-deliver-the-performance-that-apple-claims-it-will/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT 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. While Apple did say that they would continue to produce Intel… https://ajitem.com/blog/leaving-a-mark-git-commit-signature/ https://ajitem.com/blog/leaving-a-mark-git-commit-signature/ Mon, 02 Jul 2018 05:21:44 GMT Working with open source code is fun. But when sharing your code with others, or using someone else’s code for your next awesome project it… https://ajitem.com/blog/wordpress-lessons-wp-query-shenanigans/ https://ajitem.com/blog/wordpress-lessons-wp-query-shenanigans/ Wed, 04 May 2016 12:24:18 GMT WordPress is Awesome! There is absolutely no doubt about that. But as with so many things, even the best of things have some very silly…