Evgeny Kuznetsov

I’m learning, teaching myself something new every day.

I think this was always the case, but it certainly (and understandably) intensified since I switched careers. Every day, I go to bed knowing more than I did when I woke up. I like it, too; I think it’s one of the big treats of the software development trade.

All my life, I enjoyed acquiring new knowledge for the power it gave me. With it, I could do things more efficiently and also could do things I couldn’t do before. But precisely because of that, sometimes learning a new thing made me feel desperate: oh, how much time and effort would have been saved had I only known this before! It’s like spending two days disassembling and reassembling your engine to finally discover that the reason it refused to start was the empty fuel tank. All the precious time that could be spent fulfillingly, all the projects that would be possible, all the mistakes that could have been avoided; such a waste! I used to get really upset about it.

Got myself a tox account. Because why not, and also look at the world we’re living in.

Утро, завтрак, ничто не предвещает…

— Папа, извинись для меня! (Дочерь ещё путается в глагольном управлении.)

— Ладно, извинюсь. А за что, собственно?

— Я просто хочу тебя простить!

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.

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.

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.

Some things are international.

I recently learned that the foundations of the audiophile world are being rocked, shaken and uprooted by a horrifying scandal that has already been dubbed MoFi-gate. Everything about this scandal is so hilarious I can’t stop giggling.