Programming
A comprehensive guide of 25 battle-tested rules for PostgreSQL schema design, covering schema foundations, foreign keys, normalization, indexing, and migrations — each rule backed by real production incidents.
Programming
A comprehensive catalog of Python antipatterns encountered in real-world projects, covering type hinting mistakes, code complexity, architectural overengineering, error handling failures, and poor naming — with practical code examples and fixes for each.
Essays
A retrospective on decades of institutional sabotage at a Soviet-era turbocharger design bureau, where management systematically undermined technical progress while individual engineers achieved world-class results.
Essays
The story of how a team of Soviet-trained engineer-mathematicians built a simulation software package (PK MVTU) at Bauman Moscow State Technical University during the chaotic 1990s, and how it ended up powering digital twins of nuclear reactors and gas storage facilities.
Programming
A satirical story about a client who believed AI had made traditional software engineering obsolete — and how a development team gave him exactly what he asked for, while quietly building the real thing behind the scenes. A cautionary tale about magical thinking, vibe-coding hype, and the gap between perception and reality.
Essays
A practical guide to electrical signal transmission over cables, covering noise reduction techniques including shunting, differential signaling, shielding, and galvanic isolation with real oscilloscope measurements.
Essays
A candid account of one IT professional's grueling 3.5-month job search in Russia's transformed tech market, complete with brutal statistics, practical strategies, and hard-won lessons about networking over mass applications.
Essays
An exploration of how smartphones drain our cognitive resources simply by being nearby, backed by academic research on attention and working memory, with practical strategies for reclaiming focus.
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A team lead shares his experiment of managing a team without traditional Scrum tools — no estimates, no sprints, no daily standups — and achieving nearly 100% of goals through OKRs and motivated team members.
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Astrophysicist David Kipping attended a closed meeting at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study where leading scientists openly admitted AI performs 90% of their intellectual work, sparking a frank discussion about the end of science as we know it.
Science
On February 3, 1966, the Soviet spacecraft Luna-9 became the first human-made object to soft-land on the Moon. Sixty years later, space enthusiast Vitaly Egorov spent six months hunting for its exact location using satellite imagery, 3D terrain models, and the panoramas Luna-9 took of itself — and found it.
Essays
A construction professional describes how ChatGPT fabricated nonexistent building codes and standards, leading his team to build a RAG-based AI system with verified regulatory documents to solve the hallucination problem.