Blog

Thoughts, ideas, notes.

• 2023

  • Back to the Library

    Everything new is a well-forgotten old

  • People First, Technology Second

    Why it doesn't matter much to me what language or framework your project uses

  • On Testing

    Where I explain why I prefer writing integration tests

  • ChatGPT Won't Obsolete Humans

    Though it can make search results even worse than they are now

• 2022

  • Где я был эти восемь лет

    Там же, где и всегда

  • Move Slow and Fix Things

    Where I rant about the state of the smartphone market

• 2021

  • 5 Things I Got Used To In Berlin

    How I stopped worrying about the things I didn't like at first in Berlin

  • Гитары

    Об инструментах которые побывали у меня за последние 15 лет

• 2020

  • Итоги

    Это был странный год

• 2019

  • Book Review: Implementing Functional Languages. A Tutorial

    A short review of the 'Implementing Functional Languages. A Tutorial' book by Simon Peyton Jones and David Lester

  • Book Review: Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs

    A short review of the SICP book by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman

  • How To Install Gentoo With LVM and Disk Encryption

    An installation checklist for experienced users

• 2018

  • Book Review: Practical TLA+

    A short review of the Practical TLA+ book by Hillel Wayne

  • How To Organize A Productive Meeting

    A checklist of things to prepare for a meeting so that it won't be a waste of time

  • The Parts of Go That I Like

    A list of Go language and ecosystem features that I found very good and useful

  • How I write shell scripts

    A loosely-structured guide to writing shell scripts in a sane manner

  • Setup Mercurial and HgWeb on OpenBSD

    Short instruction on setting up Mercurial and HgWeb on OpenBSD

• 2017

  • Private e-mail in the 21st century

    Thoughts about ups and downs of private mail server, and how do I think an ideal mail server setup should be

  • Home automation with Raspberry Pi and Rust

    How to control Raspberry's GPIO, write drivers for devices, observe and control the whole system. Done in Rust.

• 2016

  • Working at a Startup: Lessons Learned

    Life lessons learned while working at a startup that eventually fell apart

  • ghcid: must-have tool for Haskell developer

    Short review of ghcid; mostly writing about why it is great

  • Algorithms 101: Sorting

    Short summary of must-know sorting algorithms: idea, implementation, complexity, use cases and pitfalls

  • Algorithms 101: Basic Data Structures Pt. 2

    Short summary of must-know basic data structures: heaps, priority queues, associative arrays and hash tables

• 2015

  • Algorithms 101: Basic Data Structures Pt. 1

    Short summary of must-know basic data structures: static and dynamic arrays, linked lists, stacks and queues

  • Let's write DBMS in Haskell: project management with Cabal

    How to create, build and test executables and libraries with Cabal

• 2014

  • Things I Read This Week, Pt. 2

    Another portion of interesting articles (lots of FP this time)

  • Things I Read This Week, Pt. 1

    Interesting posts and articles I found on the Internet this week

• 2013

  • Питание

    Небольшое обобщение информации о правильном питании

• 2012

  • Geek Tools

    A couple of helpful tips about tweaking GeekTool and Alfred

  • Working with MongoDB

    Some random notes on working with MongoDB

• 2011

  • What have I learned in last 7 days. Part 2: Cross compilation

    An article about how to cross compile your C, C++ and Qt projects for Microsoft Windows on Linux

  • What have I learned in last 7 days. Part 1: Cmake

    An article about how to use CMake in your C, C++ and Qt projects

• 2010

  • Asus Eee как сервер: настройка роутера

    Настройка Arch Linux для использования Asus EEE 900 в качестве роутера и сервера

  • Asus Eee как сервер: установка Arch Linux

    Настройка Arch Linux для использования Asus EEE 900 в качестве роутера и сервера