Leonid Shevtsov

Details of my implementation that is now bundled into the lunr-languages library.

It only makes sense to develop a third, personal, layer of git commands to help in your daily routine - call them “towel” or “toothbrush” commands, if you like.

A generic OAuth2 library is complicated and rife with options and configurations.

You might think that making great software products automatically makes you eligible to be a software consultant.

This thesis is concerned with developing an automatic system for sound formal proofs of programs written in a certain imperative subset of Javascript with logical annotations.

I wanted an approach akin to a git-driven app development & deployment flow: make a draft version, proof-read, and only then publish changes.

I’d like to share some hurdles I had to overcome with implementation of comments in Ruby on Rails.

I was setting up a new project yesterday, and it was missing a .powenv file I needed for Pow to work.

If you have USB drives in your /etc/fstab and your Linux system fails to boot after registering in the network, try this: Read more...

Two days ago it turned out that never getting around to setting up HTTPS access to my websites actually made them more secure.

На Маке нет встроенного графического редактора а-ля Microsoft Paint, зато есть встроенная программа для построения графиков – Grapher.

Чему меня научил недельный эксперимент по учету потраченного времени.

Если хочешь поиграться, рекомендую Raspberry Pi.

Модель с термосом и не очень большую.

Уже два месяца мне присылают кофе из Square Mile Coffee Roasters, что в Лондоне.

Люди обычно бросаются словами «кофейная зависимость», как будто они ничего не значат.

I lost the text of the article I was just writing because I accidentally hit the Chrome shortcut for “Back” – Cmd+[ – it’s the same key that un-indents text in Sublime Text.

PaperTrail is the leading Ruby gem for ActiveRecord versioning.

I DRYed up my Chef deploy scripts and extracted some definitions in to a cookbook: chef-rails-helpers.

The description of the memcached protocol says that the expiration time: Read more...

I’ve been using the exFAT file system on my Raspberry PI-powered NAS for awhile.

Here’s a neat regular expression trick that you can use to find pathnames longer than a certain length, say, 20 characters: Read more...

Imagine someone asked you to provide an effective way to put watermarks on some images before posting them online.

Посвящается памяти прекрасной читалки Stanza, которую съел Amazon.

Overcoming hurdles in passing ssh-agent through user sessions Read more...

The AsusWRT firmware supports something called “Dual WAN” - an option to have two Internet channels connected.

Впечатления от ручной кофеварки Chemex Read more...

Для начала, что такое «гиперклавиша»?

Humble New Tab Page уже года два служит моей бессменной домашней страницей.

От наушников я хотел: Read more...

Почему бы не отметить уходящий год серией от чистого сердца рекомендаций?

TCDisrupt – такая конференция для стартаперов и стартапщиц, организуемая американской медийной компанией TechCrunch.

As a way of ensuring buglessness, tests fail miserably.

I’d like to announce a gem that I wrote three years ago, then it got off my radar, albeit having some traction on RubyGems.

My Air had met its mortal enemy a couple of days ago: dihydrogen monoxide.

What do I know about cars?

I’ve found out recently that my posts are duplicated in Feedly – sorry for that.

PROTIP of the Day: if you want to measure how much current can your USB charger provide, you have to connect it to an output first.

Я люблю хакатоны.

Here’s how you install OS X on your PC: Read more...

Уютная компания Railsware ищет классных девелоперов на Ruby.

Могу поспорить, что тебе знаком этот крик: Read more...

Вчера в Днепре был сильный ливень, после которого мы ездили за город через Приднепровск и я оценил, что такое глубокие лужи.

Situation: you have a Rails app, which uses RVM and specifies its Ruby version with a .ruby-version file.

Обнаружил, что в Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 при наборе в русской раскладке никакие сочетания клавиш не работают, включая такие незаменимые, как ⌘-С, ⌘-V и даже ⌘-S.

Ты все еще хочешь писать для Хабрахабра?

Оказывается, технический спирт – не недоочищенный и не худшего качества, чем пищевой.

I’ve just updated my Clickable URLs plugin for Sublime Text to be compatible with Sublime Text 3, so now’s a good time to talk about it on this blog.

I was faced with a curious challenge while making initscripts for a webapp (for Unicorn, delayed job, and the like).

Несколько случайных этимологических фактов.