Programming
A developer shares the collection of shell scripts he has refined over a decade of daily use, covering clipboard management, file operations, internet tools, text processing, media handling, and process management.
Essays
A deep dive into reverse-engineering the Sup GameBox — the cheapest gaming console on Ozon — revealing its NES-clone hardware, bit-scrambled flash protection, and how to replace built-in games with custom ROMs.
AI
A practical guide to running the massive GPT-OSS-120B MoE model on consumer GPUs with as little as 6 GB VRAM by leveraging the -cmoe flag in llama.cpp to offload expert layers to CPU while keeping attention on GPU.
Essays
E.M. Forster's 1909 story 'The Machine Stops' predicted video calls, social media addiction, and physical atrophy from sedentary lifestyles over a century before these became everyday realities.
History
A field expedition to find Russia's last surviving payphones — from a working GSM-connected booth in a remote village to vandalized remnants — documenting the decline from 150,000 units to just 12,696 and the strange technology keeping them alive.
Essays
A technical investigation into why Wi-Fi printers and other mDNS-dependent devices randomly become undiscoverable, tracing the root cause to firmware and driver bugs in Intel, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Ubiquiti hardware affecting multicast packet handling.
Essays
Denis Skripnik, a blind developer, shares how he writes code, navigates interfaces with a screen reader, works with cryptocurrency projects, and finds clients — all without ever seeing his monitor.
History
A nostalgic look at the iconic software that defined the 2000s computing era — from Winamp and ICQ to Nero Burning ROM and Total Commander — exploring why each rose to dominance and ultimately faded away.
Essays
A cautionary tale from 2010 about a 1C developer who automated two labor-intensive processes in a finance department, only to be betrayed by the very people he helped when they realized the efficiency gains threatened their job security.
Programming
One developer's account of building and sustaining a 600-day LeetCode streak — what it actually taught him, where it plateaued, and an honest answer to whether any of it was worth it.
Essays
A hilarious tour of the edge cases musicians create for music service developers — from Prince's unpronounceable symbol name to albums where every track shares the same title, secret pre-gap tracks, and compositions lasting either one second or 639 hours.
Science
Traditional vector algebra introduces the dot product and cross product as two separate, seemingly unrelated operations. Geometric algebra reveals they are both fragments of a single, more fundamental operation — and this unification transforms how we understand rotations, reflections, and the geometry of space.