Maintainer's advice on contributing to open-source in 2026
My advice as an open-source maintainer on how to build trust as a new open-source contributor in 2026.
Martinsos' blog
Personal blog post about software engineering, computer science, startups, and other fun stuff.
Latest posts
Deslopifying
deslopifying (verb): the (painful) process of making AI output your own.
May I recommend thinking of Emacs as your Fortress of Solitude
How I stopped thinking about Emacs as merely an editor and adopted it as my digital home base.
Implementing a minimal evergreen blog in HTML and Emacs Lisp
How I used Emacs' standalone scripting and Org mode's HTML export to implement an elegant build pipeline in Emacs Lisp for an Org mode driven static blog.
Making Dante work correctly with tests in Haskell project
Using StandardJS in Spacemacs/Emacs
Building my own mechanical keyboard (Alps, handwired)
Setting up wifi dongle (Alfa AWUS036ACH) on Arch Linux
Topcoder editorial: SRM 742 Div II (C++ & Haskell)
Arch Linux on Dell XPS 15
How I got Dell XPS 15 (9560) to work nicely with Arch Linux!
C++ + Bazel + Catch2
Short instructions on how to set up C++ project that builds with Bazel to use Catch2 test framework.
Using Emacs for quick editing in terminal
Book: The Software Craftsman
My reading summary of book on software craftsmanship.
Emacs as a C++ IDE
How to set up your Emacs to have the features you would expect from modern C++ IDE.
Book: Man's Search For Meaning
My reading summary of famous book by Viktor E. Frankl about his time in concentration camps and logotherapy.
Wrapping C/C++ library as a Python extension module
Short tutorial from perspective of C/C++ library owner who wants to make it easily usable in Python.
Customer development as an optimization problem
Different view at customer development for those with engineering background.
My conky
My conky for HP Omen with Arch Linux.
Arch Linux on HP Omen
If you are interested in using HP Omen with (Arch) Linux, this is the post for you!