Essays
A detailed reverse engineering project that intercepts signals from an Opel Astra H's GID display, decodes its protocol using a logic analyzer, and outputs the display content as composite video via an FPGA.
Science
Wood is one of humanity's oldest engineering materials — and it turns out it makes a surprisingly capable bearing. This article traces wooden bearings from ancient Mesopotamia and Age-of-Sail warships to Soviet nuclear submarines, and explains the surprisingly rigorous science of how to make them work.
Hardware
The story of ELBEAR ACE-UNO — an Arduino-compatible board from Siberia built on Russia's only domestically manufactured RISC-V microcontroller MIK32 Amur, from first failed prototype to educational robotics kits.
Essays
An 18-year journey building FocusCanvas, a comprehensive life management system on Obsidian that tracks activities, finances, habits, and life balance through Telegram bot integration and automated data processing, optimized for minimal cognitive load.
Programming
A developer with 25 years of experience makes the case against deploying no-code platforms like Lovable and Base44 in production, arguing it replaces engineering culture with convenience and leads to unmaintainable systems.
Essays
An exploration of the surprisingly diverse peaceful applications of gunpowder technology, from construction tools and fire extinguishers to airbags, rocket engines, oil well stimulation, and MHD generators.
DIY
A hobbyist develops a Nixie tube driver module called Nixierator for his CD player project, and unexpectedly gets it featured as a time machine prop in a Japanese TV drama series.
Management
Online IT schools were once launched with genuine educational ambitions — then the marketing teams arrived. A short, sharp essay on how info-gurus colonized the ed-tech sector, what tactics they used, and what they left behind.
Programming
Researchers have discovered that Meta and Yandex native Android apps silently listen on localhost ports to receive browser data from their tracking scripts embedded in millions of websites — a technique that bypasses cookie clearing, incognito mode, and Android permissions entirely. The attack affects Chrome, Firefox, and Edge in both normal and private browsing modes.
Essays
The second part of a deep dive into upgrades for 8-bit Dendy/Famicom/NES consoles — covering overclocking, memory expansion, Chinese VTxx chipsets, hobbyist projects like CopyNES, network technologies, and modern FPGA reproductions.
Essays
A new programming ideology called SOSAL that focuses on social collaboration within development teams, built around five core principles: Socially-Conscious Code, Open by Default, Simple Scalability, Agile Adaptivity, and Learning-Driven Logic.
Essays
An accessible visual explanation of the Discrete Fourier Transform using mechanical recorder analogies, progressing from zero signals through sinusoids to harmonic analysis, culminating in a practical Python implementation that decodes telephone numbers from DTMF audio.