Software built to survive its own launch.
I'm Lazar. Six years of backend and product engineering for banks, hospitals and insurers, now a one-man shop in Niš that takes a few commissions at a time.
Essays, tutorials, and the weekly Wire.
Nvidia's board accepted Jensen Huang's resignation, naming CFO Colette Kress interim CEO and Harvey Jones its first chair. Shares fell as much as 14% on Thursday, closed down 4.3%, and results still land November 17.
A Microsoft 365 outage that began November 12 ran past 15 hours. Microsoft cites servers failing health checks and has rolled back a network change, with no sustained fix yet. The lessons are about health checks and fallbacks.
Anthropic's revised Supported Regions Policy, in force since November 12, bars Claude use from China and other unsupported regions by location, incorporation or control, staff abroad and cloud resellers included.
Node.js 26.13.1, 24.22.3 and 22.23.5 shipped November 11 with 16 fixes, seven rated High, led by an HTTPS heap leak and an HTTP/2 crash. Who is exposed, who a proxy shields, and how to upgrade.
Since November 10, hijacked GitHub accounts have pushed a CI secret stealer to default branches and reverted it within seconds. How it hid, where the counts disagree, and what to check today.
Things I build for myself.
Small products shipped under my own name. Each one is a test rig for the shop and a source of notes.
A habit tracker that sets the bar low on purpose. Show up, mark the day, keep the streak honest.
Proof that an engineer read the AI-written code before approving the pull request. Comprehension, not vibes.
Booking and client memory for service professionals. The calendar that remembers who people are.
DevLazar.
One engineer, three stations.
The company behind the work. Custom software, MVPs on a deadline, and backend systems that have to hold when the traffic arrives. Everything leaves the shop with drawings.
An engineer who writes things down.
I have built for banks, hospitals, insurers and sensor networks. Most of it I cannot show you. All of it taught me something, and the lessons are not under NDA.
One letter a week on AI infrastructure, shipping on a deadline, and the craft of building things that last. No noise, no sponsors you did not ask for.
