Essays
A detailed chronicle of one user's years-long struggle with hardware failures, overheating, and design flaws in a Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 — and the repairs he performed himself to keep it alive.
Science
The LK-99 saga of 2023 reignited public excitement about room-temperature superconductivity — and reignited the same misunderstandings that have plagued this field since Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller discovered high-temperature superconductivity in 1986. This article traces the history, explains the physics, and untangles the myths.
Programming
Code is read seven times more often than it is written — so readability matters far more than the speed of initial development. This article makes the case that clarity beats abstract purity, with practical patterns, anti-patterns, and a dash of cat-themed examples.
Essays
An analysis of how Russia's IT market correction is vindicating those who endured the irrational boom years — from clients forced to pay 10x for ERP migrations, to specialists overshadowed by unqualified 'passengers' who flooded the industry.
Essays
A satirical take on how non-developers experience poorly written technical tutorials, using fictional programming languages and absurd instructions to highlight the gap between developer assumptions and beginner understanding.
Hardware
A deep-dive into how RAM actually works, starting from the behaviour of individual silicon atoms and ending with the complete architecture of a physical memory module. The article builds every concept from first principles — semiconductors, transistors, capacitors, memory cells — before showing how they are assembled into the chips and DIMMs on your motherboard.
Essays
A personal account of how an IT professional overcame chronic burnout by discovering that desk workers need physical, hands-on hobbies with tangible results to truly recover from mental fatigue.
Essays
A five-year development retrospective on 'The Goddess's Will,' an isometric 2.5D action-RPG built with pre-rendered graphics in the style of late-1990s classics, covering world-building, engine migration from GameMaker to Godot, hiring artists and composers, and the philosophy of deliberate creative constraints.
Essays
A developer who has built over 12 production AI agent systems explains why the current hype around autonomous agents faces fundamental mathematical, economic, and engineering barriers that most companies underestimate.
Essays
From the Segway and 3D cinema to Soviet ekranoplans and the Betamax format war, a look at ambitious technologies that promised to change the world but never reached the mainstream — and why they failed.
DIY
A detailed guide to building a portable 12V 110Ah LiFePO4 battery in a suitcase enclosure for camping and road trips, covering component selection, BMS configuration, USB charging quirks, and cold-weather heating solutions.
Hardware
A comprehensive and humorous guide comparing FDM/FFF and SLA 3D printing technologies for home use, debunking common myths and describing the real difficulties users face with both approaches.