Chaotic Blog of Artyom Bologov

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  1. New Declarative Website Menu with Invoker Commands and noscript Hacks!

    Read on the website: I updated my website menu to be prettier on mobile, and I did not sacrifice accessibility and noJS folks! Go check it out and adopt it!

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  2. No Laptop Wee… Month?

    Read on the website: I dedicated this July to not using my laptop (and definitely not watching YouTube!) It’s a tentative win!

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  3. Paper Things I Use

    Read on the website: I have decided to go low-tech with my life lately. Here’s the low-tech know-how I use.

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  4. Wiki, Wittgenstein, and Wits

    Read on the website: So I was considering starting a wiki. But it seems there are some unsurmountable value mismatches with me and wikis. So here’s a small reflection piece engaging Wittgenstein, literary theory, and a straw man idea of wikis.

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  5. Armenian Shorthand System from 1888!

    Read on the website: It turns out, Armenian has at least one stenography system. The one designed in 1888 by a monastic order from Venice! Althought it’s imperfect, it’s a nice historic rarity.

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  6. Reverse-engineering Prose From Internet Lingo

    Read on the website: Internet learned to speak gibberish that doesn’t always coincide with literary text. But it can be converted back to that. Here’s my experiment along these lines.

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  7. When Escalator Breaks, It Turns Stairs

    Read on the website: We need resilient systems that fall back to sanity when broken / discriminating. And not whatever.

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  8. My Blog Principles

    Read on the website: There’s a bunch of guiding principles I follow when blogging to ensure what I do is kind to others. Here are some.

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  9. GESS Stenography for Russian and English

    Read on the website: GESS is a Soviet / Russian standard for stenography (fast handwriting.) I want to use it for both Russian and English. And I dare say it works!

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  10. Working at Nyxt / Atlas Engineer: Thanks and Sorry

    Read on the website: Atlas Engineer was a perfect Open Source Lispy team to work in. I was not the best teammate, though. Here’s how it worked in Atlas and what I’m worried about lately.

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