How I use AI agents in 2026
Feb 12, 2026 |
It’s February 2026, and I’m writing this with a clear understanding that in six months this post may become a museum exhibit. The field of AI-assisted development is changing so rapidly that any observations go stale faster than milk in the fridge. Still, documenting the current state of affairs seems worthwhile, if only so I can laugh at my own delusions later.
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Apple Blocked the Echo of Moscow Podcast
Nov 18, 2024 |
Out of the blue, Apple blocked the Echo of Moscow podcast feed. I’m talking about the feed I started building a couple of years ago. This is a thoroughly disgraceful story about Apple caving to Russian regulators and following their orders — even after receiving my response and a response from a US senator.
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How I Fought Telegram Spam and What Came of It
Mar 05, 2024 |
Lately, Telegram has been flooded with spam, and probably everyone who manages a relatively large channel has encountered this problem. Strictly speaking, spam becomes noticeable at 500 subscribers, but once you hit 5000+, it becomes simply unbearable. I ignored this problem for a long time and was actively against traditional anti-spam methods like captchas, confirmations, and other pre-filters.
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Cloudflare DNS
Sep 09, 2023 |
First impressions of Cloudflare DNS and other Cloudflare services. Overall, it’s quite a geeky thing — very advanced in some areas, but with some unexpected quirks.
TL;DR After the first week since the big migration, Cloudflare looks like a pretty solid set of services — very easy transfer, reasonable pricing, but with some quirks.
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How I Resurrected the Echo of Moscow Podcasts
Mar 30, 2022 |
After the Echo of Moscow radio station was casually shut down on March 5, 2022, I had an original idea — maybe I could… partially reopen it. In the spirit of a classic Russian movie line — “he breaks it, I fix it.
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Podcast Memorandum, or A Brief Guide for Aspiring Podcasters (Updated Edition)
Oct 13, 2021 |
Version 0.5.0.
what is this? This document reflects the purely subjective opinion of myself — a podcaster and podcast listener with 15 years of experience and many hundreds of recorded podcasts. The brevity of the format was chosen deliberately, in the hope that you won’t get tired while absorbing all of this and will perhaps even read it to the end.
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What to Arm Yourself With, for the Completely Inexperienced
Jul 13, 2020 |
The last couple of months I’ve been actively asked by local readers and listeners about first-time gun purchases. The popularity of this question is understandable and even expected given what’s happening. Beyond that, I believe every adult should be capable of protecting themselves and their loved ones when necessary, even without a pandemic going on.
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Moving, This Time for Good
Jul 10, 2020 |
About five years have passed since the last migration of this blog. During this time I was able to confirm that the transition to my quirky configuration didn’t help the cause of writing posts at all, but even had the opposite effect.
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ROE for Those Who Visit
Dec 19, 2017 |
ROE - Rules of engagement is explained in wikipedia as “rules or directives to military forces (including individuals) that define the circumstances, conditions, degree, and manner in which the use of force, or actions which might be construed as provocative, may be applied”.
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A Year with Go in Real Work - Here Be Dragons.
Apr 18, 2017 |
About a year ago, in the post Go or not Go? I casually promised to tell how Go showed itself in real work. The time has come to fulfill my obligations.
Over the reporting period little has changed with the language itself, but there was noticeable improvement in the ecosystem - JetBrains took on Go in a big way and their Gogland IDE reached the state of “this is usable.
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