About

The primary attribute

I am just another programmer, nostalgic about good old times of Free Software world. Of the "by programmers, for programmers" world; Of the world before web-2.0, when you was free to build your own workflow around simple unix tools (e.g email, ssh, cgi); Of the world built around the "RTFM or fuck you" idea; Of the world that would sacrifice nothing for inclusivity.

Or maybe that world never existed, and what I remember is actually me paying my bills had almost nothing to do with computers. Eh, no. Systemd, web-2.0 and AI objectively did appear, and did make the world shittier.

So yeah, I do care a lot about computers and Free Software. In past, I believed that the idea of Free Software -- user having control its own physical property (computer) -- is obviously sound and should be explained to everybody. No, can't and shouldn't. Most people don't care, and they should have been kept as far away as possible. Oh, well.

Free Software Definition

I have my dreams, but these days I spend most of my $EDITOR time adding features to some web-application of acceptable quality to pay my bills. Not expected to change any time soon.

Migration to USA.

Software of acceptable quality.

Secondary attributes

• Esperanto. I did learn Esperanto around 2015, but didn't use it much since 2017. I have my dreams to travel and to attend different events, just for the feeling of community, but I don't believe in the "finavenko", though. Humans can't agree even on unit system or traffic direction, which is trivial compared to a common spoken language.
• Human rights. I still believe that any reasonable man would agree, that freedom of speach, freedom of movement, right for a due process and all other fine things to be found in Constitution of any state is a good thing. And if somebody else is denied these things today, whoever you are, it is a reason to be concerned about your tomorrow.
• Privacy. I used to go above and beyond on it, now I just have ad blocker with 600k domains and no social networks. I am pretty sure that I am being profiled anyway with fancy browser fingerprinting, but at least I don't see ads that are meant to exploit legacy ape brains.
• Atheism. The very idea that there is something above laws of physics is harmful; existence of religions is unfortunate side effect of human evolution. The though of nothingness after is scary, no doubt.
• Minimalism. I dislike photos, toys, souvenirs, pictures and other. I dislike bloated software that no one person can hope to understand. I try to not get emotionally attached to any physical object.
• Reproduciblity. Nix for software; identical clothes, identical food every day, identical routine in gym, identical everything. Despite being web-2.0 application, the button "Buy it again" on amazon.com is hugely net-positive for me.

Esperanto

Minimalism is not that minimal

Historic note

This section was completely rewritten in the summer 2025. You can still find the old version in the internet.

My old website, frozen in time as of April 2017.