Science
A comprehensive guide to every type of drill bit you are likely to encounter, from simple spade bits to exotic friction drills and mortising bits. Covers materials, coatings, strengths, weaknesses, and the right tool for every job.
Essays
A personal experiment in digital detox: by moving the phone to another room at night and avoiding all social media before noon, the author gained extra hours of focused work and broke free from the dopamine-driven scroll cycle.
Essays
A comprehensive guide to the nine most common problems in microservice communication — from cascading failures and data consistency to observability and API evolution — with practical patterns and code examples for each.
AI
An experienced developer shares his firsthand experiment with vibe coding — building a Telegram bot entirely with AI agents — and explains why betting your career on prompt engineering is a losing strategy.
AI
A software engineer argues that AI is just another technology that needs to be learned and applied wisely, not a golden ticket. The article critiques the hype cycle, examines where AI actually works well, and warns against both overuse and underuse.
AI
The prediction that 2025 would be the year of mass AI agent deployment has not panned out. Companies that aggressively replaced workers with AI are now rehiring as quality collapses and costs mount.
Smart Home
How to replace Yandex Alice with a fully offline voice assistant built on Home Assistant, Whisper, Piper, and ESP32 hardware — three implementation options ranging from 1,400 to 20,000+ rubles, with complete architecture diagrams.
Essays
An exploration of VarAC and VARA — modern digital tools that enable real-time chat and file exchange over shortwave radio frequencies, providing communication when internet infrastructure fails.
Essays
An exploration of the nature of time through the lens of modern physics — from Newton's absolute time to Einstein's relativity, the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, and experimental evidence that time may be an emergent phenomenon arising from quantum entanglement.
Essays
A deep dive into why beliefs about legendary guitar sound are mostly psychological illusions — from the myth of analog superiority to the equipment acquisition syndrome, and why songs make the sound legendary, not the other way around.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's visionary work went far beyond speculation — he mathematically derived the fundamentals of space travel decades before anyone built a rocket. From multi-stage rockets to cryogenic sleep and space elevators, his calculations laid the groundwork for modern astronautics.
Essays
A satirical punk-style poem about a young developer who proudly relies on AI coding tools like Cursor while clashing with senior colleagues who dismiss his approach — a humorous take on the generational divide in software development.