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Razumov’s theory of Brothers Karamazov

Brothers Karamazov is a novel by Dostoevsky. If you haven’t read it yet, please skip reading this post, because it has spoilers. I have…

May 20, 2024

May 20, 2024

Simple End-to-End Encryption

Until WhatsApp had incorporated the Signal protocol, end-to-end encryption’s adoption was almost non-existent. Yet, WhatsApp left the…

Sep 11, 2023

Simple End-to-End Encryption

Sep 11, 2023

Seasteading is Defenseless

The term seasteading is the analog of homesteading for the oceans: the idea that houses can be built in the open seas. The only “game in…

Jan 14, 2022

Jan 14, 2022

Composing a Tune

Over the years I came up with several melodies and recorded them in audio on my iPhone. It was easy to stumble upon a melody while…

Nov 30, 2021

Nov 30, 2021

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Cantor’s Paradise

Triangular Numbers

Today I gave a math lesson to my five year old and stumbled upon a mathematical property that I didn’t know of: any square number is a sum…

Aug 1, 2021

Triangular Numbers

Aug 1, 2021

Published in
Cantor’s Paradise

Problems with Ancient Musical Scales

One-sentence summary: I explain why an exponential scale was invented, and how it compares with the older scales based on ratios of…

Jul 8, 2021

Problems with Ancient Musical Scales

Jul 8, 2021

Published in
ExCommunications

Rejecting the Pascal’s Wager

Here is the story of how I became an atheist and stopped fearing God. My transformation occurred through exposure to three philosophical…

Jun 26, 2021

Rejecting the Pascal’s Wager

Jun 26, 2021

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atheism101

The Shortcomings of “Raised by Wolves”

Raised by Wolves is a science fiction TV series directed by Ridley Scott, the same man who directed Blade Runner. The setting is a…

May 15, 2021

May 15, 2021

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InfoSec Write-ups

Towards Shorter Encryption keys

This article goes into technical details concerning Elliptic Curve encryption.

May 12, 2021

May 12, 2021

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AWS in Plain English

AWS Site-to-Site VPN with NAT

At Smarking, we use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. We help organizations improve the efficiency of parking lots, and to do…

May 12, 2021

AWS Site-to-Site VPN with NAT

May 12, 2021

Beware of Exploits in ETL

Apr 27, 2021

Beware of Exploits in ETL

Apr 27, 2021

Diffie-Hellman for the Layman

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman are researchers who invented a safe method to communicate a password. Their 1976 paper opens with the…

Apr 24, 2021

Diffie-Hellman for the Layman

Apr 24, 2021

Securing Third Party Cookies

This is a technical article about web development.

Apr 2, 2021

Securing Third Party Cookies

Apr 2, 2021

Protecting Demo Websites

This is a technical article for web developers.

Mar 28, 2021

Mar 28, 2021

Verification of Self-Signed Certificates

When interfacing to third-party web services, one often has to deal with self-signed SSL certificates that trigger verification errors…

Feb 4, 2021

Verification of Self-Signed Certificates

Feb 4, 2021

“Crime and Punishment” Review

It’s been a long time since I read, nay, swallowed the famous novel “Crime and Punishment” by Dostoyevsky (Достоевский). But yesterday, I…

Oct 2, 2020

Oct 2, 2020

The Outdoor Standing Desk

In the previous article The Tree Table Workstation I have written about how I came up with the Tree Table, and listed all the accessories…

Aug 13, 2020

The Outdoor Standing Desk

Aug 13, 2020

The Tree Table Workstation

In my previous article titled “The Outdoor Office” I described how I used Roll-a-Table to take my work outdoors. That table allows me to…

Aug 2, 2020

The Tree Table Workstation

Aug 2, 2020

The Outdoor Office

I got into computers during my teenage years which was back in mid-nineties. I spent a lot of time cooped up in my room for the simple…

Apr 18, 2020

The Outdoor Office

Apr 18, 2020

Anonymizing Relationships in Databases

This is a technical article for software developers concerned with privacy of users. However, it’s written in a general way, so that a…

Jan 18, 2020

Anonymizing Relationships in Databases

Jan 18, 2020

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