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NAT was created as a temporary fix for IPv4 address exhaustion but became permanent infrastructure. This article examines how it breaks modern applications and explores the difficult path toward an IPv6-only future.
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An autobiographical journey of Dmitry Karlovsky through 10 years of developing the $mol web framework — from childhood DOS programming and working at Yandex, through stints at Wrike, Deutsche Bank, and 1C, to building an independent ecosystem of innovative web technologies.
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A senior developer describes how months of heavy reliance on AI coding tools led to cognitive atrophy and an incoherent codebase, and explains the balanced approach he adopted to reclaim his engineering judgment.
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After nearly 40 years at the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute in Moscow, one of the last surviving ES 1055M mainframes — a machine with roots in East German engineering that played a role in the birth of Russia's internet — will be transferred to the Polytechnic Museum.
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A first-hand investigation into an industrial-scale Solana token scam operation, tracing how fraudsters create tokens, inject fake liquidity, simulate organic trading activity with hundreds of wallets, and then drain everything — leaving investors with worthless assets.
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A team at Postgres Professional embarked on an ambitious experiment to load approximately one petabyte of data into PostgreSQL using the distributed Shardman system across seven physical servers, overcoming hardware failures, RAID issues, and filesystem bugs along the way.
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An in-depth analysis of why sharded PostgreSQL solutions like Citus do not provide the same ACID guarantees as truly distributed databases, and why the cost of distributed transactions may be worth paying.
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An anonymous entrepreneur shares how he built a 1,700 sq.m. electrical panel manufacturing operation generating 40 million rubles monthly, powered by neural networks for cost estimation and Soviet-era engineering methodology for training unskilled workers.
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An engineer's war against a region-locked Chinese Petkit Pura Max self-cleaning cat litter box — from physical button-pushing robots to DNS hijacking and a custom Go reverse proxy that finally unlocked the device.
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A deep dive into building a microcontroller-based active noise cancellation system for urban apartments, covering the physics of destructive interference, analog approaches, and a complete ESP32 implementation with code.
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An in-depth look at how the Evo SDK was created for ATM Turbo and ZX Evolution retro computers, covering its graphics system, memory management, and the challenges of democratizing software development for niche vintage platforms.
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A practical collection of simple but effective HTML and CSS techniques — from system fonts and balanced text wrapping to dark themes and expanded click areas — that significantly improve the user experience of web interfaces.