*nix
❯ Glossary Program – a text file that contains code in some programming language; Process – an abstraction of the operating system that allows you to monitor and control the progress of program execution; Core – the program underlying the operating system, written in a system lan
AI
A veteran developer with 25 years of experience challenges the AI coding productivity narrative with hard data: app store releases are flat, domain registrations are steady, Steam game output is unchanged, and GitHub repository creation shows no spike -- if AI tools truly made developers 10x more productive, where is all the extra software?
Programming
A practical guide to five command-line tools -- lazygit, tmux, fzf, qwen-cli, and ripgrep -- that can dramatically speed up a developer's workflow by replacing common GUI interactions with faster terminal alternatives.
Essays
A solo developer documents his ambitious fan project to recreate Fallout 2 as a 3D game in Unity, maintaining the original isometric perspective and turn-based mechanics while implementing the SPECIAL system, combat, and inventory from scratch.
Essays
Despite rapid technological progress on Earth, spacecraft still rely on proven solutions from the 1990s. This article explores why space technology evolves so slowly, from radiation-hardened processors to real-time operating systems and the CubeSat revolution.
Hardware
A hands-on security teardown of a ~2,000-ruble "smart" door lock reveals five distinct attack vectors — from marketplace photo reconnaissance to a 15-second physical bypass using two needles. Fancy biometrics and Bluetooth can't save a device whose entire control board is glued to the outside with double-sided tape.
Science
A deep dive into the history and engineering of railway turntables — from 18th-century mine tracks to Moscow's monorail depot, covering tramways, trolleybuses, and the unique technical artifacts that persist into the modern era.
Essays
A detailed engineering deep-dive into repairing Ryobi lithium-ion battery packs, documenting nine distinct failure modes — from permanent software lockouts to dead cells — with reverse-engineered schematics and firmware-level fixes.
Essays
A story about finding massive three-way wooden speakers at a Spanish dumpster and transforming them into a high-quality audio system by replacing a cheap Chinese amplifier with an SMSL AO200 — proving that one right component upgrade can unlock hidden potential.
Essays
A comprehensive history of pizza from ancient Natufian flatbreads 14,000 years ago to a global culinary phenomenon, revealing how American innovation transformed a Neapolitan street food for the poor into the world's most popular dish.
History
A deep dive into why domestically developed Soviet personal computers failed to compete with Western imports, examining planned economy constraints, tiny production volumes, lack of software ecosystems, and the ironic triumph of pirate ZX Spectrum clones.
Linux
We discussed the theoretical basis of DNS caching in Linux in first part , where they talked about the work of the name resolution process - from calling getaddrinfo() to obtaining an IP address. Second part was devoted to the various levels of caches of the system itself, applic