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Yes, I use Jekyll as gh-pages -- to host the website for my OSS project on github. It fits this purpose perfectly.

Great question! Todo lists are next to useless for me. For important stuff that I have to do and must not forget about, I set up alarm clock (without description, as such stuff is …

The problem is not with code reviews but with how adversarial they have become. Instead of making the best attempt to comprehend and embrace the author's style and intention and fi…

What's with people's opinion on this? E.g. https://www.change.org/p/free-julian-assange-before-it-s-too... Signed by 666,000 people. I even donated 10 bucks or so back in the day t…

It's like one of the most wide-known facts about Warren Buffet is that he likes fast food and coke and even bought himself a diner. Or that Bill Gates drinks (or drank at some poin…

Approximate dealer repair cost: 1 new 3.5-inch 20 MB HDA ..... 488.33 Holy moly, that's a lot

Yeah, not everybody has to work with networks or cryptography, but I would've imagined that people at least read libraries that they use (to figure out what's going on under the ho…

> I strongly disagree with anyone who is hesitant about getting vaccinated, but I still feel obligated to protect them as human beings and not just abandon their safety even if the…

One more example: itch in one's throat and nasty suffocating cough that does not stop for an hour. Surprisingly, this might be caused by reflux (without the accompanying stomachach…

https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/bt BT client for JVM. Been getting a lot of love from contributors lately.

I can absolutely feel a kind of religious zeal and moral superiority from the pro-vax side. It will be hilariously stupid if long-term side effects turn out to be real.

Absolutely, most problems are caused by either of: - stupidity -fear -greed The problem is figuring out which instances of these are induced by society and civilization and which a…

Man... Every Soviet schoolboy knows that the existence of an electoral system does not necessitate a democracy. It's not Russia that is your existential problem in US, it's educati…

Not a 90s programmer, but I think one of the greater fallacies of the optimistic 90s and early naughts was a belief that technology in general and Internet (cyberspace) in particul…

This sounds too simplistic (idealistic?). Maybe computers at their core are indeed pure, neutral information, but internet is definitely more than just that. It also amplifies all …

More generally speaking, markets were killed by oligopolies.

I really prefer Bootique as an alternative to Spring Boot: https://bootique.io/ Simpler, smarter, very easy to customize. For higher loads I pick Vert.x. Other than that, it's almo…

Yeah, it seems like 90% of Rust jobs that are realistically accessible for someone with my background (different servers for the most part) are in crypto space, which I dislike, an…

For learning Rust I just picked a random, reasonably sized C++ project and spent a few weeks porting it to Rust. Was more than enough to get a grip on the core language features an…

https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/bt Has been my primary side project for the past 5 years. Looking for collaborators btw.