Writing

TL:DR - it was free and took an hour to figure everything out.

8 Dec 2015 · General programming

start-stop-daemon is a utility that, among other things, can make daemons out of regular foreground user-facing programs, and they don't have to know anything about it.

21 Nov 2015 · Devops

Implementing this may sound like a big complicated job, but in fact, it's feasible without resorting to third-party libraries.

11 Nov 2015 · JavaScript

It's probably better to use Organic Maps at this point.

21 Oct 2015 revised 19 Nov 2023 · Software

How would you find sense in a 4-megabyte JSON file? Turns out, this is a great opportunity to use jq - a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.

15 Sep 2015 · Software

React makes it possible to code modern web application with the same simple approach as traditional, non-interactive websites.

30 Aug 2015 · JavaScript

These are only companies that have achieved household name level (at least in developer-held households.

20 Aug 2015 · Clojure

Details of my implementation that is now bundled into the lunr-languages library.

9 Aug 2015 revised 11 Apr 2017 · JavaScript

A generic OAuth2 library is complicated and rife with options and configurations. However, making a specific OAuth2 client takes less than 50 lines of code.

30 Jul 2015 · Clojure

It only makes sense to develop a third, personal, layer of git commands to help in your daily routine - call them "towel" or "toothbrush" commands, if you like.

30 Jul 2015 revised 4 Dec 2015 · Software

You might think that making great software products automatically makes you eligible to be a software consultant. Not so.

13 Jul 2015 · Engineering philosophy

This thesis is concerned with developing an automatic system for sound formal proofs of programs written in a certain imperative subset of Javascript with logical annotations.

6 Jul 2015 · JavaScript

I wanted an approach akin to a git-driven app development & deployment flow: make a draft version, proof-read, and only then publish changes.

28 Mar 2015 · Ruby on Rails

I'd like to share some hurdles I had to overcome with implementation of comments in Ruby on Rails.

27 Mar 2015 · Ruby on Rails

I was setting up a new project yesterday, and it was missing a .powenv file I needed for Pow to work.

15 Apr 2014 · Software

If you have USB drives in your /etc/fstab and your Linux system fails to boot after registering in the network, try this:

14 Apr 2014 · Software

Two days ago it turned out that never getting around to setting up HTTPS access to my websites actually made them more secure.

9 Apr 2014 · Devops

На Маке нет встроенного графического редактора а-ля Microsoft Paint, зато есть встроенная программа для построения графиков – Grapher.

30 Mar 2014 · Software

Если хочешь поиграться, рекомендую Raspberry Pi. Если хочешь собрать домашний сервер, который умещается в мыльнице, не шумит и сказывается на счете за электричество, выбирай ODROID U3.

14 Mar 2014 · Hardware

Чему меня научил недельный эксперимент по учету потраченного времени.

14 Mar 2014 · Journal