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The Blog of Andrey Lepekhin
Thoughts on life improvement
Latest posts
I Tried to Build a Soundproof Sleep Capsule
Sound leaves no evidence. There’s no stain on the ceiling — nothing you can point at and say there. An apartment can seem silent at noon and wake me at 2 a.m., when a bass note comes through the wall, too faint to justify a complaint but enough to keep me awake. What got to me was having no control over it: someone else could ruin my next day without even knowing.
DIY Door Fan to Fix My Groggy Mornings
It all started with a comment from my doctor. He told me that, ideally, I should wake up like Mickey Mouse: bright, energetic, and ready to leap out of bed.
Should AI Take the Wheel?
When my wife asked, “Which decisions should you not delegate to AI?”, I stumbled.
My favorite fiction books
I wanted to write something without too much virtue signaling. When I look at earlier posts, I see something like a trophy board to show everyone how smart and likable I am. So I want to try something different.
Dark mode implementation for this blog
I’ve implemented the dark theme for this blog. An endeavour for 2-3 hours that has visible results. A satisfying project, I invite everyone with a light-theme-only blog to try.
3 links: future, present and uncomfortable
A short post with 10 thought-provoking predictions for this decade (e.g. decentralized internet and the world run by Millennials) What Will Happen In The 2020s by Fred Wilson
Some programming idioms explained
As a perpetually novice programmer, it was nice to see the reasons behind some popular idioms explained.
Simple status games
Who Wants to Play the Status Game? by Agnes Callard
Pitfalls of our simplistic moral evaluation system
In The Trouble With “Good” Scott Alexander describes some problems that stem from our evolutionary-induced simplistic good-bad evaluation system (emotivism), that meshes moral beliefs with facts and personal preferences. I’ll only paste one quote as the post itself has just the right composition to be clear enough while not being too long.