Essays
A hands-on guide to writing a userspace Linux driver in Rust for the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock's RGB LEDs, covering USB fundamentals, reverse-engineering device protocols, and handling interrupts — all in about fifty lines of code.
Programming
An essay exploring why mainstream users are indifferent to software bloat, poor design, and degrading quality -- drawing parallels with photography, cinema, and consumer culture to argue that only professionals notice the decline.
Essays
A retrospective spanning two decades of indie game development, tracing the Endless War Flash game series from a three-week side project on Newgrounds to a Hall of Fame nomination, and the lessons learned about gameplay, feedback, burnout, and engine transitions.
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Essays
An IT professional documents his attempt to leave the tech industry for a blue-collar factory job in Belarus, encountering broken job platforms, absurd HR practices, and a janitor position that pays 30% more than a system programmer role.
Web Development
A veteran developer's critical look at React's evolution from simple library to complex ecosystem, arguing that component-based architecture, hooks, and useEffect create unnecessary complexity that nobody dares to question.
Essays
A detailed technical examination of the catastrophic failure at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station on August 17, 2009, which killed 76 people and destroyed the turbine hall — while the dam itself remained intact.
History
The story of self-taught clockmaker John Harrison, who spent 50 years perfecting marine chronometers to solve the longitude problem -- from the devastating Scilly Islands disaster of 1707 to the mass adoption of chronometers by the Royal Navy.
Essays
Programmer Linus Lee created Tabloid, a Turing-complete programming language where all code is written as sensational tabloid headlines, complete with mandatory 'PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE' at the end of every program.
Essays
A tech lead's decade-long journey from developer to department head managing 30+ people, exploring how leadership operates through influence and consistency rather than authority and control.
Essays
A deep dive into legendary video games that have been lost forever — from The Matrix Online and P.T. to Star Wars: Galaxies and Marvel Heroes — exploring why games disappear and whether they can be saved.
Essays
A comprehensive deep-dive into every layer of DNS caching in Linux, from kernel conntrack and systemd-resolved to application-level caches in Java, Go, and Python, plus container orchestration with Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes CoreDNS.
Programming
A developer builds a minimalist evolution simulator in JavaScript where mathematical formulas compete, mutate, and breed to discover the shortest expression that correctly calculates the number of days in each month.