In order to maintain my sanity, I install and configure software on VPS instances in a semi-automated way.

Recently I figured out how to install Alpine Linux on an x86_64 VPS instance hosted by a company that didn’t manage to implement a trivial boot from arbitrary ISO images.

I’ve been playing with Nostr for a couple of months now and have made some improvements in ZapThreads. I’m happy to finally integrate it here!

Feel free to try it in the comments section. It’s still experimental, however you can integrate it on your website as well.

Here’s what I’ve learned and how we could improve NIP-07 browser extensions IMO.

Software developers always have something to share: some unique experiences and opinions. But only few of us make vlogs for that, because video recording is very challenging.

Today I want to talk about my challenge of video recording and editing using FOSS, scripting with Ruby and some DIY.

When I was a kid I used to make pretty awful notes: dirty hand-written copybooks with poor structure. Almost unusable.

Later, when I discovered MOOC video courses, I kept using the same antipatterns I used in classrooms but in a clearer way, with VimWiki and later with Jupyter.

The notes were still poorly structured. Take a look at this—I’m not even motivated to open and figure out what’s in it:

Eventually I found what works best for me and I want to share it with you.

I want to share some ideas about the particular topic: how to learn (improve or refresh knowledge about) Algorithms and Data Structures.

Why?

Many beginners don’t understand the purpose of this discipline.

You already have those fundamental algorithms in your standard library, so you will likely never need to implement them in real projects, right?

Yes, but this is actually not the point of learning algorithms at all.

After getting tired of looking at particular places of Rust stack traces I’ve written this little script to

• highlight the most interesting parts
• (optionally) remove some boring lines