# Ivan Ryabov — RSS Amplifier Everything Ivan Ryabov publishes, via the RSS Amplifier directory. Page: Feed: --- ## [Kinjo: the home lab menu I wanted](https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2026/08/03/kinjo-the-home-lab-menu-i-wanted.html) _2026-08-03 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ Why I built Kinjo to turn the services advertised by my home lab into a short, useful list of things I can do. ## [The crash that wasn’t: debugging Kinjo’s CI with AI](https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2026/07/19/the-crash-that-wasnt-debugging-kinjo-ci-with-ai.html) _2026-07-19 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ How human intuition and fast AI-assisted experiments traced a false Kinjo crash to a tmux version difference in CI. ## [Taxonomy of applications](https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2026/05/09/taxonomy-of-applications.html) _2026-05-09 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ A practical taxonomy of scripts, interactive apps, services, and jobs based on runtime structure and users. ## [No time for testing (in a start-up)?](https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2020/11/03/no-time-for-testing.html) _2020-11-02 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ Why automated testing is part of delivering customer value—and the safety net that keeps future changes affordable. ## [This is why distributed systems are useful (and I am building one)](https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2020/06/06/whys-of-distributed-system.html) _2020-06-06 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ Why distributed systems are worth their complexity when problems must scale across time, memory, machines, or failures. ## [Virtual filesystem: fun and profit](https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2019/11/25/vfs-for-fun-and-profit.html) _2019-11-25 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ How virtual filesystems turn paths into a general interface for local, remote, generated, and device-backed resources. ## [New version of libstyxe supports 9p2000.u and 9p2000.L](https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2019/11/05/libstyxe-new-extentions.html) _2019-11-04 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ An overview of libstyxe's added support for the 9p2000.u and 9p2000.L distributed resource-sharing protocols. ## [libstyxe: Great Refactoring](https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2019/10/30/libstyxe-great-refactoring.html) _2019-10-30 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ Why libstyxe changed its interfaces to make the 9P protocol library more extensible without abandoning its core constraints. ## [libsolace is now on Conan-central](https://abbyssoul.github.io/announcement/2019/10/26/libsolace-on-conan-central.html) _2019-10-26 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ libsolace joins Conan Center, making the C++ library easier to consume across supported platforms. ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Fir9mUUt4pMa) _2019-10-26 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [libsolace: library philosophy](https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2019/10/07/libsolace-philosophy.html) _2019-10-07 · Abyss of Software Engineering_ The reliability and design principles behind libsolace, a focused collection of reusable C++ engineering primitives.