I wanted to play classical arcade games, but I was frustrated by sites full of ads. Instead, I decided to vibe-code a few. Now they are available on the separate Games page.

For the beginning, I generated Breakout and Ping-Pong. Ping-Pong is literally perfect. Breakout had a weird set of lines and columns, and I decided …

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A few years ago, I realized that I had too many credits on my Audible account. Since I love sci-fi, I started the search. Surprisingly, many sources, including ChatGPT and Goodreads, annoyingly suggested the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor to me. Both the title of the first book ("We Are Legion (We Are Bob)") and its cover repelled …

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Here is the list of books that I personally recommend.

1. Accelerate: The Science Behind DevOps

Absolutely a must-read. In 2020, I built a team based on the book, and the team, in different configurations, remains a high performer. The team is built to optimize for frequent delivery. QA is highly automated. All unnecessary controls are removed. Agile, no Scrum. …

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Ruff

The first one is, in fact, in PyPi, but written in Rust. Ruff is a high-performance linter, and it's a perfect replacement for Flake8, isort, and pyupgrade. Instead of running linters separately, we now have an all-in-one solution that does the job in a fraction of the time compared to other linters.

DiskCache

DiskCache is a disk …

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After 2 years of COVID and working from home, we are back in the office. And this week we have a hackathon in AMBOSS. I decided to join a team of people I haven't worked with before.

This time we haven't started from the technology and we didn't jump into coding but spent a full day trying to understand …

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Before 2006 I thought that science fiction was dead. But then Blindsight by Peter Watts was published, and I read it 4 times in a row. Watts set the bar extremely high. The book is described as hard science fiction on Wikipedia. And I agree because the references section of the book looks like a section from a science …

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