High Load
FizzBuzz, Senior Style
A senior developer interview spirals into an obsessive optimization journey, taking a simple FizzBuzz from 39 seconds down to 1 second through loop unrolling, custom printing, SIMD intrinsics, and multithreading.
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Web Development
Now I Can't Even Build a Small Website
A developer who once built a simple website in a day with PHP now finds himself paralyzed by the overwhelming number of modern technologies, best practices, and tooling choices — a humorous take on analysis paralysis and overengineering.
IT Companies
Censorship Is Growing in IT and We Don't Notice — You're Only Allowed to Smile and Stay Silent
Corporate censorship in IT is a bigger threat to free speech than government censorship. PR departments ruthlessly sanitize interviews, NDAs silence employees, and tech monopolies control what stories the world gets to hear.
Biotechnology
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
With everything happening with the coronavirus, it can be very difficult to decide what to do right now. Should you wait for more information? Should you do something today? If so, what?
Prototyping
Putting a Cat Back on Its Feet: Titanium Prosthetics and Microarc Oxidation
The real story of how a cat named Dymka, who lost all four paws to frostbite, received 3D-printed titanium prosthetics with biocompatible calcium-phosphate coatings created using custom high-current microarc oxidation equipment.
Neuroscience
23 Minutes: In Defense of Slow Thinkers
A self-proclaimed slow thinker discovers that his inability to produce instant solutions is actually how quality thinking works — the brain needs 23 minutes to load a problem before real thinking begins.
Career
I Don't Want to Work Anymore, Ever, on Anything. But They've Learned to Squeeze Results Out of Me
A brutally honest essay about developer burnout, the dysfunction of corporate Agile rituals, the conflict between engineering craftsmanship and ticket-velocity culture, and the existential trap of golden handcuffs in the software industry.
IT Companies
Apple in 2019 Is Linux in 2000
An ironic observation about the cyclical nature of technology: the frustrating macOS experiences of 2019 mirror the Linux struggles of the early 2000s with eerie precision.
Linux
When 'a' Is Not Equal to 'a': Investigating a Hack
A sysadmin investigates a hacked server and discovers a recompiled nginx binary that silently replaces Cyrillic characters with Latin lookalikes — but only for search engine bots — to sabotage SEO rankings.
Health
10 Years in IT with a Schizophrenia Diagnosis: Survival Tips
A senior software engineer shares practical advice on building a career in IT while living with paranoid schizophrenia — covering medication, psychiatrists, flare-ups, psychotherapy, and coping strategies.
Urbanism
Japan: A Country of Such Common Sense That It Seems Irrational to Us
A first-hand account of Japanese culture, urbanism, and daily life — from earthquake-resistant houses on air cushions and modular bathrooms to the absence of street crime, hyper-efficient waste sorting, extraordinary toilets, and a deeply rational society built on rules and collective behavior.
Java
The Honest Resume of a Programmer
What would a developer's resume look like if it were brutally honest? From silently watching features fail to spending a week on a combobox animation, one programmer lays it all out.