My name is Evgeny, I live in Moscow, Russia, work as a software developer, and no longer teach at a medical university. This is my website.
Today, in one of the Telegram chats somebody asked if anybody remembered what the limit of the filename length in MS-DOS was. That someone could not remember the 8.3 rule seems counterintuitive to me, but I can rationally persuade myself that there are people who never worked with DOS or that someone could forget. That’s not what triggered this post.
It was the answer. Someone just forwarded an reply to the question from one of the GPT assistant chats.
TIL that the Python programming language was named after the Flying Circus, not after any snake. This explains so much that I seem to no longer have any questions to Python whatsoever.
Even more: I must confess I’m starting to seriously like it.
I’ve been wearing a wristwatch since I was a teenager. If I happen to leave home without a watch on my wrist, I feel as if I’m naked, uncomfortable. For the last ten years, I’ve been using smartwatches almost exclusively.
Three months ago, my smartwatch stopped functioning and I decided to try and live with an ordinary watch for a change. I dug out my old quartz watch, put in a new battery and set the time. The battery is still good three months later and will run for a couple years more, which is awesome compared to smartwatches. The rest of the experience was frustrating.
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on There are things that are nice and interesting to do, yet there are things you’d rather not spend your time and effort doing. People are different, and my categorization may not match yours, but on average, there are a lot of things in today’s life that one would like to delegate to some extent. Hiring a person or a team for this is something very few of us can afford, but technical progress gives some hope to wide audience, too.
Visitors of this blog might have noticed I’ve moved it from Known to Hugo recently. Doing it without losing IndieWeb features was quite a hassle, I admit, so I felt the need to document the process. Hopefully, my experience will be of use to someone, and even if not, bragging is half of the fun about blogging anyway, isn’t it?
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on This post is about obvious things, but it looks like they aren’t that obvious to some people.
Many messengers allow to send voice messages instead of text. These messages are problematic: you can’t read them in a meeting, you can’t skim through them later to remember what the conversation was about, you can’t search the contents of these messages… The fact that the voice messages are possible to send doesn’t mean you should. You shouldn’t.
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on Some things are international.
Owning your own data is great. I’ve been using this website as the central IndieWeb point of my online life for over five years, and I love it. However, the joy of owning your own website comes bundled with great responsibility: as the website owner, I am responsible for what’s on my site and for what’s stored “under the hood” to make this website work.
It’s not a huge issue as long as I only post my own content on my site, but the cool thing about the IndieWeb — as opposed to “regular” Web — is its social aspect, the ability to interact with other people running other websites. To do that I usually need to put some of the data that belongs to other people onto my website. And that always makes me uncomfortable.
