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  • The Quiet Outage

    May 04, 2026 • 8 min read

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    Two days of a barely-broken production system, and what they taught me about emergence, restraint, and the fix that a...

  • The Carry Counter: How I Made My Procrastination Countable

    Apr 24, 2026 • 9 min read

    productivity efficiency to-do-list procrastination planning

    A time-blocking system that stops letting you lie to yourself. The four-week markdown file There’s a file on my lap...

  • I Built a Karpathy-Style Knowledge Wiki From 8 Months of Obsidian Notes — Here’s How

    Apr 07, 2026 • 4 min read

    ai knowledge claude obsidian wiki

    The Problem With Notes That Only You Can Read I’ve been using Obsidian daily since August 2025. Daily plans, project...

  • I Built a Closed-Loop AI Planning System With Claude, Obsidian, and 800 Lines of Python

    Apr 04, 2026 • 7 min read

    tools ai planner claude productivity

    How I automated the gap between “having a plan” and “following the plan” — using an AI planner, a markdown vault, and...

  • I Built a Tool to Outsmart the Lottery (Spoiler: The Lottery Still Wins)

    Mar 02, 2026 • 3 min read

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    Every Friday evening, I’d sit there staring at my Eurojackpot ticket, wondering the same thing: Am I just picking ran...

  • Speculative Design | Design Challenges: Comfort, efficiency, and privacy concerns

    Dec 10, 2025 • 3 min read

    future speculative-design technology biogas fun

    Harnessing human-powered energy sounds exciting — until you have to wear the hardware all day. Whether we are talking...

  • Speculative Design | Beyond Farts: Other Human-Based Bioenergy Innovations

    Jun 09, 2025 • 4 min read

    fun speculative-design biogas future technology

    So far in our speculative bioenergy series, we’ve explored the provocative idea of turning flatulence into energy. Ye...

  • Speculative Design | Breaking the Silence: Social and Cultural Impacts of Body-Powered Devices

    May 07, 2025 • 3 min read

    fun technology speculative-design future biogas

    In the first two articles, we explored why someone might harness flatulence for energy and how a hypothetical device ...

  • Speculative Design | Inside the Fart Reactor: A Look at the Hypothetical Mechanics

    Apr 15, 2025 • 3 min read

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    Welcome to the second article in our series on speculative bioenergy design. In our previous piece, we explored the t...

  • Speculative Design | From Taboo to Technology: Why Farts Might Be Worth Harnessing

    Mar 18, 2025 • 4 min read

    technology fun speculative-design biogas future

    Farting is often the punchline of a joke — an embarrassing, smelly fact of life that many prefer to ignore. Yet as od...

  • Version 1.0 is Never Perfect

    Mar 12, 2025 • 2 min read

    inspirational learning business failure-to-success art

    Some of my drawings In December, I decided to take up drawing as a hobby. I enrolled in a few basic online courses ...

  • Speculative Design | Fart Reactor

    Mar 10, 2025 • 1 min read

    speculative-design technology fun biogas future

    A Glimpse into Tomorrow Picture this : You step into a softly lit coffee shop. It looks like any modern café: sleek ...

  • The Hidden Cost of the Cloud - How Digital Storage is Draining Energy

    Feb 04, 2025 • 5 min read

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    Have you ever considered the environmental impact of digital activities? It’s a fascinating topic, especially in our ...

  • DIY-Working Table

    Jan 06, 2025 • 2 min read

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    If you’ve ever thought about building your own work desk but didn’t know where to start, this post is for you. Buildi...

  • Understanding Memory Management - The Key to Efficient Programming in Any Language

    Apr 01, 2023 • 14 min read

    chatgpt memory-improvement programming garbage-collection memory-management

    Memory management is a critical aspect of programming languages that involves allocating and deallocating memory duri...

  • Supercharge Your .NET Development

    Jul 26, 2022 • 14 min read

    system-architecture ndepend c4-model architecture dotnet

    Usually, in small companies, people wear several roles. And quite often, among technical people, there is a person or...

  • Extendable .Net Application

    Mar 25, 2021 • 2 min read

    software-architecture simple mediatr plugins dotnet

    Contemporary software development requires a high frequency of changes, business’s needs change quite often as well a...

  • My conclusions after using Blazor on a real project.

    Apr 19, 2020 • 3 min read

    net-core blazor single-page-applications csharp javascript

    C# and .Net Core have significantly improved in everything (architecture, performance, portability, etc.), and now, w...

  • How to run C# code in a browser.

    Dec 11, 2019 • 6 min read

    webassembly wasm csharp javascript dotnet

    Nowadays, there are a lot of talks about WebAssembly and how it would penetrate the front-end world. In fact, it has ...

  • Rendering optimization for real-time data on React

    Oct 23, 2019 • 3 min read

    aspnetcore react signalr hooks rxjs

    Nowadays some users want to interact with real-time applications which are smooth and with zero delays.

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