👋 Hello!

• I'm a Russian🇷🇺 self-taught Software Engineer with a broad skillset in software engineering; I'm also a college dropout (2013)
• Since my college times I'm pursuing my career in Electronics & Software Design & Engineering
• I'm bilingual:
  • I'm native and fluent in Russian
  • I can read (2015), write (2017), and understand vocal American English (2019) 🇺🇸
• I'm Wikipedian (mostly English one)
  • I've been tinkering around chemistry, biology, math, politics, etc. a lot of stuff
  • While on wikipedia, I made a side project: HistoryHelper , a plugin for Wikipedia that helps to link history entries to the talk pages to speed up creation of disputes

• In 2013, in my college years I used to use for several small side-projects; no commercial experience
• In 2014 I started to look forward to , , ,
  • By this time editors like WebStorm were thriving, but ultimately I've switched to
• In 2015 I've started to learn & use , (TypeDoc), and
  • While learning TS I've contributed to the projects like Definitely Typed
• On the way I have learned a lot about web-related technologies (i.e.software), just to name a few:
  • Old shool ones: VanillaJS, Backbone.js,
  • By 2017
    • I started to use GNU/Linux OS (Kubuntu: KDE Plasma etc.) in my everyday work
    • Backend:
      • , , , (Mongoose)
    • Frontend: , , React Components, React Router etc.
    • Basic frameworks for testing, bundling, styling (e.g. , etc.)
    • Sideproject: Stigma, a schema validator
  • Graphics, a lot of math, trigonometry, WebGL
    • A side project: Globular, a small TS/JS Geometry library
    • As of today I'm still continuing my journey toward OpenGL/Vulkan
    • Sideproject: a modified fork of game
      a competitor game for JS13k competition1
  • 🛠️ I've mastered Node.js more, became accustomed to a range of different everyday tools like
    • , , , , different VSCode extensions etc.
• By 2018:
• In 2019 I've digged a lot into a C-language world and desktop/cross-platform applications:
  • , LLVM/Clang/GCC, ccache, Make, (Ninja!), build automation systems
  • I also played a bit with CADs (like FreeCAD, AutoCAD, SolveSpace, and KiCAD)
  • Played around with
• By August 2021 up to 2022, I'v been mastering Bash/Zsh (completion, general functionality, docs etc.)
• By 2022 I've mastered CMake (see contribs), learned a lot about
  • LLVM tooling (clang-tidy etc.)
  • GNU Core Utilities, like and Make (AWK a bit) scripting languages etc.
  • Zsh, a versatile, though not backwards compatible, bash replacement
• December 2022 - Researching Organosilicon chemistry, Photoresists (Electronics)
• November 2022 - January 2023 - Learning neovimlink. editor heavily
  • When Microsoft killed atom editor, I decided to move away from VS Code.
  • This took me a while to setup a lot of things
  • During this time I've learned alot about Lua & Vimscript languages, their environment. I'm now very confident in writing Lua code. Not a big deal.
  • Familirized myself with GNU Make

• April 2023 - Contributing to Neovim plugins,e.g.:
  • L3MON4D3/LuaSnip#846
  • nvim-tree.lua#2161
  • nvim-cmp etc.
• May 2023
  • I've learned in-depth idea dependency injection, modularity concept in programming languages, and an experimental Newspeak languages developed by Cadence Design Systems. Newspeak was dropped in 2009, but still serves a good example of enforced dependency injection: you can't get lost and know for sure where a certain symbol (class) comes from.
  • Contributing into nvim-lspconfig project: PR#2609
• June 1-9, 2023
  • Learned how to use Inkscape vector editor (I already know how to use BoxySVG for instance): basic editing tasks, import/export etc.
  • PostgresSql: basic authentication, cluster management, Ubuntu SystemD service management (pg_createcluster,initdb etc.), some most common commands
  • pgadmin4-web (data modelling & ERD tool)
  • PGModeller (ERD tool) - a part on Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) methodology
• June 27-28, 2023
  • In-depth learning of GNU Make
• July - August 2023
  • July 10-13, 2023: I deepened my knowledge in Quantum Physics and Quantum Chemistry (all of this is related to the chemistry, a broader approach to micro electronics engineering)
  • July 7-17, 2023: I've read book on UML by Grady Booch «The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, (1998)» as part of MDE
  • July 25, 2023: Model-driven architecture & Round-trip engineering
  • August 20-23 - Learned about GNU stow command
• Semptember - October 2023
  • September 28 - Contributed plugins for Neovim: lsp-timeout.nvim and duplicate.nvim
  • September 30 - It took me full year to fathom Neovim ecosystem; Insanity!; now I know Neovim Lua API and Lua well
• October 2023
  • Made a bunch open-source contribs to neovim-related projects to imrpove my dev-x.
    • vim-matchup
    • crazy-node-movement - major overhaul; added new features
    • legendary.nvim - Keep history
  • Some got rejected sadly by very rude and uncooperative maintainer:
    • legendary.nvim - Mode aware functions
    • legendary.nvim - Minor refactoring
• November 2023
  • Wasted a week on improvements of some deeply flawed neovim plugin, but sadly, it got rejected on frivioulous grounds: 1 2 3
• December 2023
  • December 19 - Made std.sh - a minimal standard library to detect operating system & package managers; easy to install

• Spring - Autumn 2022/2023 I'm still looking foward to learn more about the following topics:
  • Pending
    • Zsh/Bash comand completion - Since August 2021!
  • More about
    • Hostings
    • Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) tools
  • Data Bases:
    • /
    • ORMs for C/C++ & JS integration
  • Electronics
    • Electrical Engineering
    • Microelectronics Engineering & Fabrication
    • VLSI IC Design
    • Electronics Design/MCUs
    • EDAs
  • Chemistry
    • Organic silicon chemistry
  • Misc
    • Bison/Lex
  • Driving license

• I was homeless up until November 2020

On Feburuary 24, 2022 a self-proclaimed President (with term ending in 2008 per Constitutional limit) of Russia Vladimiar Putin has announced a so called «Special Military Operation» against the sovereign state of Ukraine 🇺🇦. I do not support and share in any way this blatant and unjustified (IMO) encroachement on country's and people's freedom. Please help to stop the war - spread the word!

November 03, 2022