Essays
A practical collection of simple but effective HTML and CSS techniques — from system fonts and balanced text wrapping to dark themes and expanded click areas — that significantly improve the user experience of web interfaces.
Hardware
Many people know that Xiaomi and other Chinese brands outsource assembly — but what if they do not even develop their own phones? A look at the invisible ODM giants that manufacture most of the world's budget smartphones and explain why they cost so little.
Essays
A case study of an Arduino Mega-based water management system deployed in a remote Russian forest location in 2014 that ran continuously for 11 years with minimal maintenance, replacing two unreliable computers.
Health
A psychologist shares seven key patterns observed from counseling about a hundred IT professionals, revealing how the industry's rational mindset shapes personal struggles with productivity guilt, relationships, and identity.
Web Development
A senior developer with 15+ years of experience is asked by their CTO to build a production app using Firebase.studio vibe coding. What follows is a candid account of what works, what breaks, and why AI coding tools still need human expertise.
Essays
A deep dive into the science of typography: how font choice can boost reading speed by up to 35%, why your brain processes some letterforms faster than others, and the surprising truth behind the universal hatred of Comic Sans.
Programming
A deep dive into 14 powerful Python features you might not be using yet, from type overloading and generics to metaclasses and structural pattern matching, complete with practical code examples.
Programming
Instead of simply blocking malicious bots, one developer responds to them with specially crafted gzip files that decompress to gigabytes of zeroes, crashing the bot's process. The article explains the technique, provides the shell command and PHP implementation, and honestly addresses its limitations.
Essays
A practical guide to the 15 essential Git commands that handle the vast majority of everyday version control tasks, from cloning and committing to branching, merging, rebasing, and undoing changes.
Essays
The true story of how PostgreSQL's iconic elephant logo was born in a small St. Petersburg bar in 1999, designed by a Russian studio, and how the filename 'slonik.gif' became permanently embedded in international IT lexicon.
Essays
An opinionated exploration of 1C, Russia's dominant enterprise accounting platform: how a 1990s emergency solution became an entrenched digital bureaucracy with its own proprietary language, certification priesthood, and complete vendor lock-in.
AI
The author stumbles onto a YouTube channel generating 70+ polished AI-made documentary videos every three weeks — each racking up millions of views, zero comments, and appearing alongside legitimate content in recommendations. A personal essay on what algorithmic content flooding means for the future of the internet.