Essays
An exploration of why English IT terminology sounds so inconsistent, tracing pronunciation patterns through Germanic foundations, French administrative vocabulary, Latin-Greek scientific terms, and the Great Vowel Shift.
Essays
A detailed reverse-engineering project documenting the successful port of Doom to a Snom 360 Business VoIP telephone from 2005, involving firmware analysis, custom driver development, and creative problem-solving.
Essays
The story of the Tu-144, the world's first supersonic passenger aircraft that flew before the Concorde but was ultimately doomed by its fuel-hungry engines and the Soviet Union's lack of a market for luxury air travel.
Science
The popular explanation that microwaves work by vibrating water at its resonant frequency is wrong. The real mechanism is dielectric relaxation, and the choice of 2.45 GHz is a practical engineering compromise.
Science
The popular explanation that microwaves work by matching water's resonant frequency is a myth. The real physics involves dielectric losses and molecular friction.
Essays
A hackathon team exposes how a competitor won first place at a government-sponsored hackathon with a completely non-functional prototype — just a pretty frontend facade with no working backend, ML, or data processing.
Science
A deep dive into aviation's Minimum Equipment List (MEL) system — how aircraft are legally allowed to fly with certain defects, illustrated through the famous Gimli Glider incident and the Spanair Flight 5022 disaster.
Essays
An engineering analysis of why the ribosome is shockingly inefficient — burning 90% of its energy as waste heat and finding the right tRNA by brute force — and a conceptual blueprint for a redesigned protein synthesis machine that could enable 30x faster regeneration, radical intelligence enhancement, and near-instant immune response.
Management
A team lead discovers that a mid-level developer has been secretly outsourcing all programming tasks to ChatGPT instead of writing code himself.
Essays
A deep dive into Flash's rise and fall, examining how the internet might have evolved differently if Adobe had continued developing the technology instead of abandoning it in favor of open web standards.
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A satirical take on translating programming terminology into Russian, imagining what software development would look like if foreign words were banned from the industry.
Essays
A deep dive into the Linux TTY subsystem, tracing the evolution from telegraph machines and teletypes to modern virtual terminals and pseudoterminals, explaining how the kernel mediates between terminals and user processes.