Evgeny Kuznetsov

My name is Evgeny, I live in Moscow, Russia, and teach at a medical university. This is my website.

What can be found here?

Chiefly my blog,
but also some software I develop in my spare time,
- including the indieweb-glue service,
as well as my reactions that I send webmentions from,
and various little things, such as
- my PGP key for confidential messages
- or links to my various accounts (under the picture above).
The Fediverse handle is @evgenykuznetsov.org@evgenykuznetsov.org, but RSS is a better way to subscribe.

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Евгений Кузнецов написал 21 мая 2023 в lol путешествия

На центральном вокзале Калуги есть очень нарядная тематически оформленная клумба.

Видите машиниста? В РЖД явно очень обеспокоены текучкой кадров, и приняли меры, чтобы машинист не покинул рабочее место…

кукла-«машинист» прибита гвоздём прямо поверх формы — Машинист РЖД не должен отлучаться с рабочего места!

Надеюсь, живых машинистов они просто привязывают…

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Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on April 28, 2023 in IT

Leafing through McConnell, I suddenly realized that Java’s assert is spelled panic in Go.

The “don’t panic” proverb just acquired new depth.

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Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on April 16, 2023

Lisp is very much like a broad nib: you wouldn’t use this for everyday writing, and most of the techniques you’ll necessarily acquire would be useless with any other pen. Yet the very experience of having written a line or two with this kind of pen changes your perception of fonts and strokes, forces you to hold your pen differently, and ultimately changes — for good, I presume — both your handwriting and your approach.

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COVID-19: Had It and Survived

Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on October 20, 2021

The story of my disease, the complications I had, and the treatment I received. Be warned: it's a long one.

Leveraging IndieWeb to Avoid Storing Others' Data

Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on September 19, 2020 in IT projects site meta

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 the Un-Known!

Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on April 1, 2020 in IT site meta

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?

A random wall in Tel Aviv.

Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on August 18, 2015

Some things are international.

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Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on February 27, 2015

Selective blindness as powerful as it comes.

Voice Messages

Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on September 4, 2022

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.