Career
A hiring manager with 10 years of experience argues that modern IT interviews have devolved into disproportionately difficult exams that fail to assess real competence, and shares how a conversational approach yields better teams.
Finance
A detailed rebuttal to arguments made by ICN Holding consultants, exposing mathematically impossible performance graphs, contradictory regulatory claims, and suspicious fund structures that suggest a financial pyramid scheme.
Science
Most people have never truly unpacked what their dream job actually requires — and most are also blissfully unaware of their own peculiarities. A sharp, funny essay on career choice, self-knowledge, and embracing the specific flavor of madness that makes you employable.
Science
An exploration of the hypothesis that our Universe operates as a giant cellular automaton, drawing on Stephen Wolfram's research to explain speed of light limits, quantum mechanics, dark matter, and other physical phenomena through simple computational rules.
Essays
A philologist from Moscow State University applies classical onomastic theory to programming, revealing that naming conventions in code follow the same four patterns as nicknames in human communities.
Essays
A deep dive into how programs actually execute at the processor and OS level, using a 'Hello, World!' program in assembly language to examine registers, system calls, ELF format, memory layout, and the linking process byte by byte.
Hardware
The iconic "Turbo" button on 1980s-90s PCs didn't speed anything up — it actually slowed the processor down to 4.77 MHz for compatibility with software written for the original IBM PC.
Essays
A detailed guide to building a functional operating system kernel from scratch in C, covering bootloading, VGA display, keyboard input, preemptive multitasking, memory management, FAT16 filesystem, and system calls.
Essays
A comprehensive guide to diagnosing and fixing Wi-Fi problems, covering signal physics, channel interference, hardware bottlenecks, mesh systems, and traffic management with QoS tools like fq_codel and CAKE.
Hardware
A deep technical teardown of real Russian elevator control stations (UKL/UL) explaining their microprocessor boards, safety circuits, matrix wiring, and sensor systems — and why cheap microcontrollers like Arduino are fundamentally unsuitable for life-safety applications.
IT-инфраструктура
Greetings, colleagues! It's again @ProstoKirReal . In the last series of articles, I discussed with you how the Internet works ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 ), but I deliberately left out the most important part - how bits of data are transmitted over local network
Essays
A retrospective by John Calhoun about his early days as a graphics engineer at Apple in 1995, where an unauthorized Easter egg containing copyrighted poetry in the Color Picker nearly cost him his job.