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2026 · 12¶

2026-05-10 - Default Config Values are Actually Hidden Landmines
2026-05-08 - Building Resilient HTTP Clients in Go: A Middleware Journey
2026-05-05 - common-make: Zero-Setup Build Automation for Go Services
2026-04-23 - Standardizing Go Build Systems Across 15 Microservices with Claude Code
2026-03-31 - Automating Kubernetes ConfigMap Updates with Reloader
2026-03-24 - LinkedIn and road to hell
2026-02-24 - How to Monitor Claude Code with OpenTelemetry
2026-02-18 - How Node.js Embeds Built-in JS Modules
2026-02-16 - The “Silent Watcher” Regression in MkDocs 1.6.1
2026-01-31 - Git Doesn’t Track File Renames (And How It Fakes It)
2026-01-23 - No more Telegram
2026-01-16 - A Boring Pomodoro Timer

2025 · 12¶

2025-11-23 - The Problem with Merge Commits in Trunk-Based Development
2025-11-15 - When Tech Stack Chaos Hits Hard
2025-10-29 - Claude Code CLI Prompts
2025-08-23 - Sending Styled HTML Emails with Go: Fixing Gmail’s CSS Limitations
2025-06-10 - The State of “Let’s Rewrite It in Rust”
2025-06-04 - Microsoft Gets Rusty: Thoughts on Rust Adoption and C/C++ Departure
2025-05-26 - Schwartzian transform: Python’s Secret Sorting Sauce
2025-05-23 - Exploring Python’s Hidden CLI Modules
2025-05-17 - One Python, Who-Knows-How-Many Toolchains, and a Dash of Hope
2025-05-12 - How I use the Pomodoro technique in 2025
2025-04-24 - TIOBE Index for April 2025 hit the floor
2025-04-11 - Reflection on the Books reading

2024 · 3¶

2024-12-22 - Paradox of Choice in Ruby
2024-12-01 - Languages popularity by SDKs
2024-08-14 - Everybody Python, FTW?

2023 · 10¶

2023-11-27 - Manage Go CLI tools via Go modules and tools.go
2023-11-19 - Social Networks are time killers
2023-11-17 - Play 3.0.0 Release and Scala
2023-11-09 - Octoverse 2023: The most popular programming languages
2023-10-30 - Stockholm Syndrome and Programming Languages
2023-10-14 - Why MacOS make version is outdated?
2023-06-02 - P-99: Ninety-Nine Problems
2023-04-06 - First official Javadoc version
2023-01-17 - Golang: Do you commit your generated mocks to repo?
2023-01-01 - Personal Techradar for Programming Languages - 2023 H1

2022 · 6¶

2022-12-23 - Blog, Digital Garden, Wiki. FTW?
2022-12-20 - Python is the second best language for anything
2022-12-01 - ZSH on MacOS
2022-11-17 - Popularity of Programming Languages - 2022
2022-09-09 - Lightbend is Changing the License for Akka
2022-08-20 - Rethinking Bloging

2021 · 5¶

2021-11-22 - base64 encoding/decoding on MacOS
2021-05-20 - Haskell: Development Environment Setup
2021-04-13 - OpenCV tutorials and learning materials
2021-04-05 - How to remove image background color using JVM?
2021-02-07 - Thoughts about Audiobooks

2020 · 2¶

2020-12-30 - Ruby 3 and static typing
2020-08-25 - Personal Techradar for Programming Languages - 2020 H2

2019 · 16¶

2019-09-30 - Python Bad Practices
2019-09-27 - Design Patterns in Scala/FP Java
2019-09-26 - Scala Best Practices
2019-04-28 - Scala vs Kotlin
2019-04-10 - Common misuses of Java 8+ features
2019-03-02 - Scala and FP Conferences
2019-02-27 - Lambda Days - Krakow, 2019 - Report
2019-02-10 - Data Science Learning Resources
2019-02-07 - Data Science YouTube Channels (Python, R)
2019-01-26 - Machine Learning and Data Science MOOCs
2019-01-23 - Go vs Python comparison
2019-01-22 - PostgreSQL command line cheatsheet
2019-01-20 - Ruby vs Javascript comparison
2019-01-19 - Python vs Javascript comparison
2019-01-17 - Algorithms, System Design, Interview Preparation - Github Repos
2019-01-13 - Top “Algorithms and Data Structures” Books

2018 · 13¶

2018-12-31 - Thoughts about Blogging
2018-12-30 - Functional programming in Haskell - Part 1
2018-12-29 - Resources for System Design Interview
2018-12-28 - Resources for Practicing Coding Interview
2018-12-21 - [WIP] Scala vs Haskell
2018-12-20 - Scala for-comprehensions
2018-12-20 - Git Notes
2018-12-19 - How to configure docker bash completion on Mac
2018-12-18 - [WIP] Verify Ruby github/markup gem for markdown rendering
2018-10-30 - Russian MOOCs
2018-05-20 - Scala Days - Berlin, 2018 - Report
2018-04-05 - Programming Quizzes
2018-03-15 - REST API Guidelines

2017 · 2¶

2017-11-05 - My Favorite Podcasts
2017-10-31 - Reflection about the next main scripting language

2016 · 10¶

2016-12-02 - Scala for Ruby Developers
2016-12-01 - Scala for Python Developers by Kevin Stanton
2016-11-30 - Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to The Death by Gary Bernhardt
2016-11-29 - Ruby: The Bad Parts by Bozhidar Batsov
2016-11-28 - Ruby and Rails: The Bad Parts by Volodymyr Melnyk
2016-11-28 - Reserved Words of Programming languages
2016-11-27 - Who left Ruby Community?
2016-06-15 - Gradle, Groovy, Kotlin. FTW?
2016-05-22 - JEEConf - Kyiv, 2016 - Report
2016-05-14 - The state of Groovy and other JVM Languages

2015 · 18¶

2015-11-08 - Java Day - Kiev, 2015 - Report
2015-10-20 - How to run Netflix Eureka via Webapp Runner?
2015-09-25 - Distribute application as Native Single binary
2015-09-20 - JDay - Lviv, 2015 - Report
2015-07-20 - Grails 2.x best practices collection
2015-06-29 - DevoxxPL - Krakow, 2015 - Report
2015-05-25 - JEEConf - Kyiv, 2015 - Report
2015-05-19 - Grails 2.5.0 debug in IntelliJ IDEA
2015-05-18 - Go presentation tool
2015-04-06 - Java full stack web framework
2015-04-04 - Rails Architecture and Scalability
2015-03-17 - How to download jars from Maven Central
2015-02-17 - How to Install Octopress on Windows?
2015-02-13 - Maven Flow for Simple App Creation
2015-02-12 - Do We Need Java for Everything?
2015-02-05 - How to Generate PermGen leak?
2015-02-02 - Scripting in Scala
2015-01-22 - How to Use Embedded H2 with web Console?

2014 · 11¶

2014-11-16 - How to Fix Textmate OSX Yosemite ruby 1.8 issues?
2014-10-20 - Switching to Textmate 2
2014-10-09 - How to use block comments in Bash Script
2014-09-07 - Migration to Octopress
2014-08-13 - Groovy Notes: Pretty print JSON from the command line
2014-08-12 - How to disable Tomcat session serialization
2014-07-23 - Review: Programming Groovy 2: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer
2014-05-25 - JEEConf - Kyiv, 2014 - Report
2014-04-19 - Thor notes
2014-03-17 - Review: Making Java Groovy
2014-01-26 - About Learning New Programming Languages

2013 · 19¶

2013-12-03 - List of Real Spring-Based Projects
2013-10-21 - REST with JAX-RS: Part 3 - Embedded Jetty
2013-10-20 - REST with JAX-RS: Part 2 - Spring Java Config and CXF Improvement
2013-10-19 - REST with JAX-RS: Part 1 - Spring Java Config
2013-10-03 - Java Object to Object Mapper
2013-08-27 - How to remove .svn folders recursively?
2013-08-17 - Git, Jenkins, Gerrit, Code Review and pre-tested commits
2013-07-02 - Concurrency vs. Parallelism Definitions
2013-07-01 - JAI and Image Processing in Java
2013-06-14 - Java Barcode Generation and Scanning Library
2013-05-27 - JEEConf - Kyiv, 2013 - Report
2013-05-23 - Graphics Unit Conversion
2013-05-20 - Equals, HashCode and toString in Java
2013-05-13 - iText Useful Resources
2013-04-27 - The long way to Evernote
2013-04-23 - Java PDF Libraries
2013-02-09 - i18n vs l10n
2013-01-26 - Jenkins hierarchical jobs and jobs status aggregation
2013-01-21 - Auto install required Ruby gems via script

2012 · 16¶

2012-12-31 - Jenkins enhancements without plugins
2012-12-12 - Groovy or JRuby for Java developer
2012-11-02 - How to Configure Git Diff and Merge Tools?
2012-10-27 - Mac OS X terminal supports colored output
2012-10-20 - Git command extension
2012-10-01 - RubyShift 2012 Conference Report
2012-09-10 - Ruby Style Guides
2012-09-04 - How to prepare to pass Oracle Web Component Developer Certified Expert Exam
2012-06-27 - Maven Build Number Plugin - Sample Usage
2012-06-12 - How to improve cmd.exe prompt
2012-06-11 - Maven Resource Filtering
2012-05-20 - JEEConf - Kyiv, 2012 - Report
2012-03-27 - Why you should join a user group?
2012-02-26 - State of numerical computation languages
2012-02-13 - UML Sketching Tools
2012-01-21 - Quick way to join array of String in Java without third party libraries

2011 · 18¶

2011-12-25 - How to decide which technology hype is worth personal investments?
2011-11-03 - How to run ANT script from .BAT/.CMD?
2011-10-21 - Java Reflection: Invoke Constructor Issue
2011-10-10 - Overview: Optimistic vs. Pessimistic Locking
2011-08-31 - Java Code Quality Tools - Overview
2011-08-15 - My reflection on “Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer”
2011-07-20 - How to disable System.out?
2011-06-28 - How to Add Jars at Runtime?
2011-06-20 - @Override Java Annotation Issue
2011-05-24 - JEEConf - Kyiv, 2011 - Report
2011-02-15 - Lisp Balkanization?
2011-02-11 - How to choose the next programming language to learn?
2011-01-26 - Review: Language Grubbing
2011-01-25 - Review: Beating the Averages
2011-01-22 - Lisp, Ruby, Acceptable and not Acceptable
2011-01-14 - Review: You Should Write Blogs?
2011-01-12 - Should I Learn Lisp?
2011-01-10 - Review: How To Become A Hacker?

2010 · 5¶

2010-12-15 - Java Build Tools and Future
2010-10-31 - Why Should I Attend Conferences?
2010-08-12 - (J)Ruby or Groovy for scripting in Java environment
2010-04-22 - How to setup Ruby/Rails development environment, Part 2 - E-TextEditor
2010-04-16 - How to setup Ruby/Rails development environment, Part 1 - Ubuntu VM

2009 · 3¶

2009-12-27 - Why I’ve chosen Ruby as main scripting language for my toolbox
2009-11-18 - *nix-like environments for Windows
2009-11-08 - GNUstep Getting Started