It’s amazing how many people don’t know the main secret to setting up a monitor. The monitor brightness should be set so that it doesn’t contrast with the ambient lighting. That is, if the room is brightly lit, the monitor should be bright too. If the room …

In 1999 I met a girl at the seaside. We struck up a friendship, but it didn’t last long, literally a couple of days: her family was leaving the resort much earlier than mine. She lived in another city, and since neither the internet nor texting had been invented …

I used to think I read a lot. Well, that’s how it seemed to me. I ordered books on Amazon, read books in the original that hadn’t been translated into Russian and that were impossible to buy here in Ukraine. A trip to the stores never ended without …

I recently read the book “Economics: The User’s Guide” by Ha-Joon Chang (116 UAH in electronic form).

I sincerely wanted to start understanding economics better. I read it; I didn’t end up understanding it much better. But there were interesting bits in the book.

About how the imperialists …

Please welcome a new column: “Disrupt of the Week.” In this column I talk about the most breakthrough technologies that substantially change the rules of the game in various fields.

This week’s disrupt is Swagger (pronounced “swogger”) — a specification for describing web service APIs.

Why is this needed? Since …

In 2015, quality internet finally appeared on city streets in the country: 3G. The mobile operators bought licenses to use the frequencies for crazy billions of hryvnias. The equipment, I think, costs no less.

On the one hand, that’s good: for 15 UAH a month I get several megabits …

I recently read Richard Branson’s book “Screw It, Let’s Do It” (100 UAH in electronic form).

I’d heard a lot about Branson, seen places where people take pictures with his cardboard cutout. For some reason all business seminars have these cutouts. After reading the book, I realized …

Oh yes, I know: you’ve missed the “Students Are Curious” feature.

So, the students are curious:

Volodymyr Ihorovych, how can this be, will I really be expelled just because of one exam of yours that I didn’t pass?

Yes, you will be expelled. It’s important to understand …

I’ve been running into this question more often: “What courses should I take if I’m learning IT from scratch?” Well, for example, if your first profession is teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, but you want to get a job as a Haskell programmer.

For me this is …

While you’re over there liking whatever random crap on Facebook (Facebook as a news outlet is just some kind of misunderstanding altogether), the normal guys are reading technical blogs from leading companies.

For example.

The Uber engineers’ blog: https://eng.uber.com/ Don’t know what Uber is? How …