Management
Programming used to offer a guaranteed return on a modest investment of effort: learn some tutorials, grind LeetCode, get hired. That era is over — and the arrival of LLMs is precisely what ended it, not what made it easier.
Essays
Linux creator Linus Torvalds published a scathing critique of case-insensitive filesystem implementations on LKML, calling them a 'catastrophic mistake' that creates serious security vulnerabilities through Unicode ignorable code points.
Essays
A veteran developer shares six memorable war stories from 25 years in the industry — from accidentally executing trades on production accounts to destroying a laptop during a demo and causing a diplomatic incident with a misplaced map.
DIY
A custom SD card adapter that wirelessly triggers remote cameras when a trail camera detects wildlife, using RF 433MHz and Bluetooth modules miniaturized to fit inside a standard SD card form factor.
Programming
A browser extension called 'zaKilo' that automatically calculates and displays per-kilogram or per-liter prices on Russian grocery delivery websites, exposing common marketing tricks that manipulate consumers.
Essays
A manifesto for developers who actually write code — while everyone else is stuck in meetings, chasing buzzwords, and relying on AI chat windows. A rallying cry for getting things done.
Programming
The Skimmer seaplane vanished from GTA San Andreas after players updated to Windows 11 24H2, launching characters into space at 10 nonillion meters altitude. The culprit turned out to be an uninitialized variable bug from 2004 that went unnoticed for twenty years because previous Windows versions happened to leave the right stack garbage in place.
Essays
The story of TempleOS, a 64-bit operating system built entirely by Terry Davis over 10 years with 100,000 lines of code, its custom HolyC language, and the extraordinary circumstances of its creation.
Programming
A response to "Write Simple Code" — arguing that what matters most is not simplicity or complexity, but your attitude toward your craft. Drawing on experience in electrical installation work as an analogy for programming, the author makes a case for mastery, aesthetics, and professional pride.
Science
The secant integral ∫sec(x)dx looks trivial in a modern calculus textbook, yet its formal proof eluded mathematicians for nearly one hundred years. This article traces the remarkable journey from Gerard Mercator's 1569 navigation problem to James Gregory's 1668 proof, showing how practical cartography drove one of mathematics' most unexpected discoveries.
Programming
Young developers love to build complex architectures — but in a typical startup, you could delete half the codebase and nothing important would break. One question cuts through the noise: can I do this simpler without losing time or performance? If yes, then do it simpler.
Programming
A complete walkthrough of visualizing a Schwarzschild black hole using OpenGL and GLSL — from deriving geodesic equations with SymPy to implementing an adaptive Runge-Kutta integrator in a fragment shader.