The favicon survived the web
Most of us never look at a favicon.
Kyrylo Silin
I build serious software and unserious websites
Latest posts
AI will not stop at simple work
After I wrote that programming experience is no longer a moat, one reply kept appearing.
The hard way has changed
After I wrote that programming experience is no longer a moat, many people told me that experience was still the real moat.
Programming experience is no longer a moat
I have a Computer Science degree. I’ve been writing code for more than 15 years. I’ve written software in more than eight programming languages, read countless programming books, and used to do code golf for fun.
I built Flag Click
I built a small web game called Flag Click.
The artificial programmer
I recently got six months of free access to OpenAI’s advanced coding models because of my open-source contributions. I posted about it on X. It’s an incredibly generous offer, and I’ve been using Codex every day since.
Stick with defaults
There is a strange instinct among developers to distrust defaults. The moment we install a new tool, framework, editor, or operating system, many of us immediately begin searching for “the real setup”. We hunt for configuration guides, optimization tricks, must-have plugins, and dotfiles maintained by people with anime avatars and 700-line configuration files.
The magic of typing terminal commands
There is a quiet magic in the terminal.
AI will help you climb the wrong ladder faster
One of my biggest disappointments with AI is this:
Less decoration, more communication
I’ve been rethinking why we rely so heavily on icons in interfaces.