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.

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.

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.

Historic note

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