Ivan Roganov — Blog

Continuing the compact-programs series: building 2048 in Rust with windows-rs, creating a native window via WinAPI, and wrangling the message queue.

Part one of a series on Go's task scheduler: what happens with OS threads, why 180,000 threads will kill your system, and what work stealing has to do with any of it.

Writing the game 2048 in x64 Assembly on Windows: from TASM memories to NASM and MinGW, fitting the entire game field into 16 bytes of memory.

Windows 11 inside and out: rounded corners, the new Start menu, TPM 2.0 requirements, telemetry, and what the scary number eleven really hides.

A deep dive into UUIDv7 — a next-generation binary-sortable identifier: why it exists, how sub-second precision works, and why it matters for databases.

A look at vugu, a young library that lets you write frontend in Go via WebAssembly.

The brave new world of data privacy: The Social Dilemma documentary, the Brave browser, and why your grandparents deserve a safer, quieter internet.

A walkthrough of the Rust compiler source code — from parsing a source file to generating a binary via LLVM.

A deep dive into the history of compilation — from processors and opcodes through C, Java, and JavaScript to LLVM and Rust.

A real-world experience of adopting Rust in production — from reading the documentation inside out to replacing 16 Docker containers with a 564 KB binary.

What happens when the result of your work is effectively nothing?

A detailed breakdown of Windows 8 Developer Preview: WinRT, Metro UI, tablet features, IE10, and honest impressions from three months of daily use.

A sci-fi short story about Vasya the sysadmin, a 3 AM server-room emergency, and the unexpected encounter that inspired him to write his first article.

A practical PowerShell intro for beginners: cmdlets, pipelines, working with .NET objects, the Windows registry, and writing your first useful scripts.

A .NET developer's first experience with Ruby on Rails: installing the stack, setting up the project, running the first scaffold, and honest impressions.

.NET Interop in practice: using P/Invoke and DllImport to call native Windows Sockets from a managed C# app — a full example with code and pitfalls.

Two inheritance types in ADO.NET Entity Framework — Table per Type and Table per Hierarchy — walked through with common mistakes and their fixes.

A practical introduction to ADO.NET Entity Framework — from creating a data model to performing basic CRUD operations in ASP.NET.