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Yes and No

On the difference in understanding of basic words.

2 minutes

September 27, 2024

Telegram Instant View

On implementation of "Instant view" button in Telegram.

3 minutes

June 9, 2024

Good Take Home Test

How to turn a test task into a candidate's pet project.

2 minutes

June 7, 2024

Engineering Strategy

What is an engineering strategy and why is it needed?

2 minutes

June 2, 2024

Portable Document Format

In defense of the “Download beautiful PDF” button.

2 minutes

May 28, 2024

Manager Mindset

C-level thoughts on middle managers. Lesson #3 from courses for CEOs.

1 minute

May 24, 2024

CEO Tasks

CEO focus. Lesson #2 from courses for CEOs.

2 minutes

May 24, 2024

Suspicious Companies

How to check a company. Lesson #1 from CEO courses.

3 minutes

May 21, 2024

Quality Courses

Open Stratoplan University, an interesting course format.

2 minutes

May 17, 2024

Popular Languages

How to choose a language wisely.

2 minutes

May 10, 2024

Nature of Tech Debt

An advanced tech debt explanation.

3 minutes

May 3, 2024

Architecture: Modernity

Key ideas in modern approaches to software architecture.

5 minutes

April 6, 2024

Architecture: Informal Definitions

Interpretation of popular but non-standard definitions of architecture.

3 minutes

March 30, 2024

Good Business Relationships

A model for business relationship building.

5 minutes

March 23, 2024

Architecture: Standardization

The path towards software architecture standard.

3 minutes

March 21, 2024

Architecture: Buildings

How software can be similar to buildings.

3 minutes

March 19, 2024

Architecture: Inspiration

Architecture of 1970-s.

2 minutes

March 14, 2024

Architecture: Roots

What if you make architecture your hobby?

2 minutes

March 12, 2024

Fundamental Questions of IT

Information technology past and future.

2 minutes

February 25, 2024

Invincible Bug

An exceptional bug story.

6 minutes

February 23, 2024

Lead Programmer Tricks

How to lead projects.

4 minutes

February 9, 2024

Learning From Nature

A poetic take on dealing with change.

1 minute

September 3, 2023

A Programming Language Endgame

What's the final destination for programming language evolution?

2 minutes

July 17, 2023

Bad Identifier

A note about naming.

1 minute

May 13, 2023

Go: Error Handling in Functional Style

An alien way of error handling in Go.

1 minute

May 15, 2022

OpenAPI Internationalization Status

We don't have a way to add several descriptions to OpenAPI objects, in different languages. We won't have it soon.

1 minute

July 31, 2021

Practical Checkstyle Config

Consistent, practical, and nicely structured checkstyle config.

1 minute

July 31, 2021

How to Work Hard

What working hard means for people who like solving problems.

3 minutes

July 17, 2021

Reasons to (not) Make the World Better

"We work to make the world a better place" is a lie.

5 minutes

July 10, 2021

Recommended Pagination for APIs

A guide on pagination design for web APIs.

6 minutes

July 8, 2021

Guideline: Error Handling

What a developer must know about error handling.

4 minutes

July 5, 2021

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Open Source is an Infinitely Scalable Art

Open Source is a fractal.

2 minutes

May 13, 2021

Thoughts on Leadership in Software Development

Observations about leaders in software development.

3 minutes

May 12, 2021

Classic Documentation Problems and Solutions

A simple list of problems and solutions.

1 minute

May 10, 2021

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

Book review and quotes.

85 minutes

April 10, 2021

37 Things One Architect Knows

Book review and quotes.

118 minutes

January 2, 2021

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Data ≠ Information, Information ≠ Understanding

The difference between data, information, and understanding. Thoughts on online advertising.

2 minutes

October 10, 2020

What is SOAR

The explanation of a hyped technology.

3 minutes

October 10, 2020

Securing DevOps: Security in the Cloud

Book review and quotes.

94 minutes

August 16, 2020

A Philosophy of Software Design

Book review and quotes.

17 minutes

June 14, 2020

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Book review and quotes.

36 minutes

June 6, 2020

Guideline: Error Wrapping in Go

Commentary on error wrapping in Go before 1.13 came out.

6 minutes

May 2, 2020

Connection pool + distributed lock = deadlock

How to get a deadlock using PostgreSQL advisory lock.

3 minutes

May 1, 2020

How to: Structured Logging

How to use structured logging with examples (in Go).

5 minutes

April 22, 2020

What is Structured Logging

What to see when you see a log entry.

2 minutes

April 21, 2020

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking

Book review and quotes.

25 minutes

April 18, 2020

SQL Performance Explained

Book review.

3 minutes

April 11, 2020

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Book review and quotes.

28 minutes

January 26, 2020

The Essential Alan Watts

Book review and quotes.

58 minutes

January 15, 2020

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Book review and quotes.

61 minutes

January 11, 2020

Software Architecture in Practice

Book review and quotes.

76 minutes

December 25, 2019

Working with secrets using Ansible

How to nicely encrypt some values in any yaml, keeping the entire file unencrypted.

1 minute

December 7, 2019

Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor

Book review and quotes.

65 minutes

December 1, 2019

Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

Book review and quotes.

41 minutes

November 24, 2019

The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications

Book review and quotes.

50 minutes

November 4, 2019

PocketBook Quote Export

A script to export PocketBook quotes + PocketBook database schema.

1 minute

October 5, 2019

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger

Book review and quotes.

35 minutes

October 3, 2019

Antifragile

Book review and quotes.

26 minutes

September 8, 2019

The beauty of Python type hints

An example of a Python code properly using type hints.

1 minute

July 10, 2019

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Book review and quotes.

3 minutes

November 11, 2018

Release it!

Notes on book "Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software".

19 minutes

October 9, 2018