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Pratik Dhanave · ·8 min read

Content Marketing and SEO

Of all the marketing disciplines, content marketing is the one engineers are most naturally suited to and least resistant to — because it isn't selling, it's teaching. You create something genuinely useful (an article, a guide, a tool), people find it when they need it, they learn to trust you, and some become customers. It's honest, it compounds, and it plays directly to a technical builder's strengths. For technical products, content marketing is often the single most effective and authentic marketing channel there is.

Of all the marketing disciplines, content marketing is the one engineers are most suited to and least resistant to — because it isn't selling, it's teaching. You create something genuinely useful, people find it when they need it, they learn to trust you. It's honest, it compounds, and for technical products it's often the most effective channel there is.

Pratik Dhanave · ·12 min read

Methods and Receivers

How Go attaches behavior to types without classes — the receiver, the value-versus-pointer decision, method sets and what they mean for interfaces, and the addressability rules that trip people up when a value lives in a map.

How Go attaches behavior to types without classes — the receiver, the value-versus-pointer decision, method sets and what they mean for interfaces, and the addressability rules that trip people up when a...

Pratik Dhanave · ·6 min read

The Card Payment Actors Map: Who Actually Does What

One reference model of every party in a card transaction — cardholder, merchant, gateway, acquirer/processor, scheme, and issuer — and the settlement path that moves the real money back the other way.

One reference map of who does what in a card payment: cardholder, merchant, gateway, acquirer/processor, scheme, issuer, and the settlement return path.