AST Reconstruction: How We Manually Stitched Out-Of-Line Methods in libclang
Why a strict native parser loses methods, and how we assembled broken C++ code piece by piece.
Flude -- Universal Document Engine
Build in public: architecture notes, engineering decisions, and progress updates.
System Header Hell: Teaching libclang to Understand GCC and Survive MSVC
Why our native C++ parser couldn't parse 'Hello World', and how we built an automatic header discovery system.
Firing Doxygen: Native Parser Architecture and Adopting libclang
How we abandoned a heavy dependency in the cloud and why the Intermediate Representation architecture saved us from rewriting half the project.
C++ Crash Test: Hidden SFINAE Traps and Parser Silence
How a harmless std::enable_if template trick caused the documentation generator to silently delete classes from the project.
The Butterfly Effect: How Renaming One String Broke Our Distributed System
A cautionary tale about why implicit string contracts turn microservices into a distributed monolith.
Surviving the JS Ecosystem: Auth, Netlify, and the New Rules of Next.js 16
How a harmless Next.js frontend forced us to battle hosting providers, outdated documentation, and implicit conventions.
SaaS Economics: Why We Overpaid 10x for Auth and How We Protected the Cloud from Spam
How we built a Free-Tier, protected against Abuse loads, and why we chose Clerk over cheap Supabase Auth.
The Configuration Trap: How Enterprise Solutions Become SaaS Vulnerabilities
How a harmless configuration file almost became an RCE vector, and why we transitioned to a Zero-Trust architecture.
A Tale of Two Fludes: The Architectural Split of Enterprise and SaaS Models
How we realized that binary distribution would kill our public business, and why we had to fork the product into two branches.
Clean Room: A Refactor That Answered a Legal Question, Not an Architectural One
Some code doesn't belong in the main engine forever. We look at why splitting one renderer family into its own private plugin was the answer to a legal question.