Life at the factory can be dull, repetitive, boring. And full of lies. A personal experience from a full-time job.

A harsh, personal love-letter to a favorite tool.

In summery rivers,
The kids are swimming,
Their naked asses
The moonlight gently kissing.

I've studied the effects of electromagnetic fields on patients with carotid stent implants during my PhD. I've never talked with any patient nor seen such medical devices even to this day, fifteen years later.

A fictional mental kind of a jailbreak inspired by real life events.

Ideas from a very personal style of software development based on speed and agility in front of the keyboard and building live, easy to change, interactive systems.

A detailed analysis of the special tools, code generators and domain specific languages used in the automotive industry to compensate for the weakness in C, its default programming language.

...then why is not everybody using it? A different kind of an answer for the same old question.

Some teams just can't stop talking all the time, can't stop bringing in new tools and processes instead of attacking the problem itself.

A generic distinction between the style and motivations behind big, corporation-like software teams and small, independent ones.

All the people on all the street signs on all the countries in the whole wide world (with manually curated data from openstreetmap)

How to group all shells, code, web browser and all other Emacs buffers into different tabs and switch easily between them with tab-bar mode.

A peculiar book list for the adventurous and free-spirited on which to build a solid base for their future software adventures.

Ditch the classic keyboard and your back and wrist pain together with it. Try a split, fully-programmable keyboard and discover a new world of possibilities. You'll never go back after.

Some examples of Lisp features which are non-implementable in C, together with an analysis of the different levels of power between languages.

My experience with building my own Emacs, text-based, music player and discovering the build one to throw one away mantra.

Over the years I've learned to use my palm to press the controls keys after some advice I've found online. This is an article encouraging that method to potential users. I've since replaced it with a split keyboard, but it has served me well all this time.

Romanian translation of the famous Lessons In Electronic Circuits. It includes plenty of material related to electric and electronic circuits and it starts at the very beginning with ample explanations and step by step instructions and real-world examples.