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One of my favorite childhoods stories was told from a perspective of an arctic fox. It wasn’t a cartoonish “Lion King” type of story but pretty serious and mature stuff.

Some Captain Obvious stuff. Literally nothing real looks like CG. Shadows and lighting don't look like that. Optical effects don't look like that. People don't move like they do in…

Having the gullible herd like this is the whole point of modern democracy.

Maybe I can share an anecdote from my childhood? I was born in the 80s, in USSR, and learned reading at 3 y.o. thanks to my mom who would read stories to me constantly while I was …

The idea of AI capable of something like that seems to be on the verge of magical thinking. But what would the consequences for the industry be? How many competitors to every major…

I just don't see much use for AI coding agents beyond PoC and prototypes, that are to be ditched soon. In my 15 years long developer career I've always found ways to automate all k…

I have a feeling that a prompt accurate enough to cover all the important stuff (functional/non-functional requirements, certain business side restrictions etc) would be close in i…

How do you deal with weird machine-readable values which you'd like to make some sense of yourself, like a Unix timestamp or a base64-encoded value? Some Bash nerds do "echo ABASE6…

A JSON parser in Bash, impressive. I've just finished an HTTP server in Bash and had to rely on jq for parsing JSON requests, but maybe would love a pure POSIX solution instead. Do…

So, I wanted to learn more about Bash scripting and make something in it for fun & profit, and here it is — a nearly fully featured HTTP server, accompanied with a small framework …