fix: GitHub Pages

Create CNAME
feat: downloadable PDF
2025-10-22 12:08:21 +07:00 · 2025-10-22 11:55:32 +07:00 · 2025-04-23 09:16:33 +04:00 · 2025-04-22 20:26:47 +04:00 · 2025-04-22 20:21:52 +04:00 · 2025-04-22 20:17:32 +04:00
41 changed files with 1620 additions and 493 deletions
--- a/.github/workflows/static.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/static.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
 # Simple workflow for deploying static content to GitHub Pages
 name: Deploy static content to Pages
 on:
  # Runs on pushes targeting the default branch
  push:
    branches: ["master"]
  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:
 # Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
 permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write
 # Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
 # However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
 concurrency:
  group: "pages"
  cancel-in-progress: false
 jobs:
  # Single deploy job since we're just deploying
  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Set up Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 18
      - name: Setup Pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@v4
      - name: Install dependencies and build
        run: |
          if [ -f package-lock.json ]; then
            npm ci
          else
            npm install
          fi
          npm run build
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
        with:
          # Upload the built site
          path: "./_site"
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4
--- a/1
+++ b/1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
 vladfaust.com
--- a/_includes/footer.pug
+++ b/_includes/footer.pug
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 footer
-  p Vlad Faust © 2020
+  p Vlad Faust © 2016-2023
--- a/_includes/head.pug
+++ b/_includes/head.pug
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ meta(charset='UTF-8')
 meta(name='viewport', content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0')
 <!-- Basics -->
-title= title ? (titleNoAppend ? title : (title + " | Vlad Faust Blog")) : "Vlad Faust Blog"
+title= title ? (titleNoAppend ? title : (title + " - Vlad Faust Blog")) : "Vlad Faust Blog"
 meta(name='description', content=description || excerpt)
 meta(name='robots' content="index,follow")
 meta(name='generator' content='Eleventy')
--- a/_includes/header.pug
+++ b/_includes/header.pug
@@ -7,12 +7,16 @@ header
      a(href='/') Vlad Faust
      | .
    p.tablet-hide
-      | I'm a passionate developer currently working on&nbsp;
+      | I am a jack of anything IT, master of some; see my&nbsp;
-      a(href='/posts/2020-08-20-the-onyx-programming-language') my own programming language
+      a(href='/cv') CV
      | .
    p.tablet-hide
-      | You can follow me on&nbsp;
+      | You can contact me via&nbsp;
-      a(href='https://twitter.com/vladfaust') Twitter
+      a(href='https://x.com/vladfaust') 𝕏
-      |  and&nbsp;
+      | ,&nbsp;
      a(href='https://github.com/vladfaust') GitHub
-      |  and also send nudes to mail at vladfaust.com
+      |  or&nbsp;
      a(href='https://t.me/vladfaust') Telegram
      | , or e-mail me directly at&nbsp;
      i hey at vladfaust.com
      | .
--- a/_includes/note.pug
+++ b/_includes/note.pug
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
 doctype html
 html(lang='en')
  head
    include /head.pug
    //- Styles
    link(rel='stylesheet', href='/public/styles/post.css')
    link(rel='stylesheet', href='https://unpkg.com/prismjs@1.20.0/themes/prism.css')
  body
    include /header.pug
    main.line-numbers
      h1= title
      p.meta
        time.pubtime(datetime=page.date.toISOString())= page.date.toDateString()
        if location
          | ,&nbsp;
          = location
      hr
      article(class=(asciiDoctor ? "asciidoctor" : ""))!= content
    include /footer.pug
--- a/_includes/posts.pug
+++ b/_includes/posts.pug
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
 ul.posts
  each post in [...collections.post].reverse().filter((post) => !post.data.hidden && post.date <= Date.now())
    li
      span.date= post.date.toDateString()
      a.title(href=post.url)= post.data.title
--- a/_includes/projects.pug
+++ b/_includes/projects.pug
@@ -0,0 +1,433 @@
 h3 Singularity tech (2022-present)
 small.annotation
  | Behold, the Deus ex Machina blooms, like a lotus from the murky depths.
 ul.projects
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/derouter/derouter") DeRouter
    p.desc
      | Decentralized, uncensored open-source API marketplace.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Rust
      span P2P
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/aistories") AIStories
    p.desc
      | The original source-available AI character simulation platform.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Commercial
      span AI
      span Crypto
      span NFTs
      span TypeScript
      span VueJS
      span NodeJS
      span trpc
      span zod
      span Solidity
      span ethers
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/kawaiii") Kawaiii
    p.desc
      | OnlyFans, but for Web3.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Commercial
      span TypeScript
      span Ethereum
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/offchaincafe/evm") Offchain Café EVM
    p.desc
      | A self-hosted indexing service for Ethereum blockchain, exposing a GraphQL API.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crypto
      span EVM
      span Solidity
      span TypeScript
      span GraphQL
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/nxsf/ipnft") IPNFT
    p.desc
      | An on-chain, digital proof of authorship for an IPFS CID, tailored to existing NFT standards.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crypto
      span IPFS
      span EVM
      span Solidity
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/fancysofthq/contracts") Fancy Contracts
    p.desc
      | A collection of EVM smart contracts for the Fancy Software apps ecosystem.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crypto
      span EVM
      span Solidity
 h3 Onyx, the language (2020-2022)
 small.annotation
  | Onyx is a novel programming language I'was working on.
 ul.projects
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://nxsf.org") NXSF.org
    p.desc
      | The Onyx Software Foundation website (
      a(href="https://github.com/nxsf/nxsf.github.io") source
      | ).
    .stack
      span Open source
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://nxsf.org/onyx/") Onyx standard
    p.desc
      | An attempt to standardize the Onyx language (
      a(href="https://github.com/nxsf/onyx") source
      | ).
    .stack
      span Open source
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/fancysofthq/phoenix") Phoenix
    p.desc An attempt to implement an Onyx language compiler in C++.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span C++
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/onyxlang/rs") Onyx in Rust
    p.desc An attempt to implement an Onyx language compiler in Rust.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Rust
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/onyxlang/ts") Onyx in Typescript
    p.desc An attempt to implement an Onyx language compiler in TypeScript + Zig.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Zig
      span TypeScript
 h3 Crystal-related projects (2018-2020)
 small.annotation
  a(href="https://crystal-lang.org") Crystal
  |  is a Ruby-inspired programming language, but compiled.
 ul.projects
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://onyxframework.com/") Onyx framework
      |  (2020)
    p.desc
      | A web framework with&nbsp;
      a(href="https://github.com/onyxframework/http") HTTP
      | ,&nbsp;
      a(href="https://github.com/onyxframework/sql") SQL ORM
      |  and&nbsp;
      a(href="https://github.com/onyxframework/eda") EDA
      |  modules, fancy website and rich documentation.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Product design
      span Crystal
      span SQL
      span HTTP
      span Event-driven architecture
      span VueJS
      span SASS
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://github.com/crystaljobs") Crystal Jobs
      |  (2018)
    p.desc
      | A now defunct Crystal jobs board (
      a(href="https://crystaljobs-staging.netlify.app/") frontend preview
      | ).
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Product design
      span Crystal
      span VueJS
      span SASS
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/crystalworld") CrystalWorld
      |  (2019)
    p.desc
      | A&nbsp;
      a(href="https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld") RealWorld
      |  implementation in Crystal and Onyx the web framework.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
      span SQLite
 h4 Crystal shards (2018-2020)
 small.annotation
  | A&nbsp;
  i shard
  |  is a Crystal code package.
 ul.projects
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/time_format.cr") TimeFormat
    p.desc Time spans formatting made simple.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/i18n.cr") I18n
    p.desc Internationalization shard.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/http-multiserver.cr") HTTP::Multiserver
    p.desc Mount multiple web applications.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
      span HTTP
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/tarantool.cr") Tarantool
    p.desc
      | A&nbsp;
      a(href="https://www.tarantool.io/ru/") Tarantool
      |  database driver.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
      span TCP
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/cake-bake") Cake-Bake
    p.desc Bake Cakefile into native Crystal code.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/callbacks.cr") Callbacks
    p.desc Expressive callbacks module.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/validations.cr") Validations
    p.desc Validations module.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/mini_redis") MiniRedis
    p.desc A light-weight low-level Redis client.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
      span TCP
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/http-params-serializable") HTTP::Params::Serializable
    p.desc The HTTP params parsing module.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/migrate.cr") Migrate
    p.desc A database migration solution.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
      span SQL
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/stripe.cr") Stripe
    p.desc Stripe API wrapper.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
      span API wrapper
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/tele.cr") Tele
    p.desc A convenient Telegram Bot framework.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
      span Telegram bot
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/tele-broadcast.cr") Tele::Broadcast
    p.desc Broadcasting for Tele.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Crystal
      span Telegram bot
      span Redis
 h3 Ruby gems (2015-2017)
 ul.projects
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/jbuilder-json_api") Jbuilder::JsonApi
    p.desc Jbuilder meets jsonapi.org specifications.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Ruby
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/asset_pipeline") AssetPipeline
    p.desc Add Sprockets based Asset Pipeline to your Ruby applications.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Ruby on Rails
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/bitcoinpay-client") Bitcoinpay
    p.desc Bitcoinpay.com API client for Ruby.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Ruby
      span API wrapper
      span Crypto
  li.project-card
    a.title(href="https://github.com/vladfaust/blockchain-api") Blockchain::Api
    p.desc A blockchain.info API wrapper.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Ruby
      span API wrapper
      span Crypto
 h3 Other projects
 ul.projects
  li.project-card(style="background-image:url(/public/img/projects/jumpin_sweeties.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position-x: calc(100% + 5rem); background-size: 15rem;")
    span.title
      a(href="https://xgm.guru/p/sweeties") Jumpin Sweeties
      |  (2015)
    p.desc A casual mobile game.
    .stack
      span GameDev
      span Java
      span LibGDX
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://parrotfarm.herokuapp.com/") Parrot Farm
      |  (2016)
    p.desc
      | A showcase project to demonstrate my skills at those times
      small , hosted on Heroku.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Ruby on Rails
      span AngularJS
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://nostalgic-hopper-8a1414.netlify.app/") Coinpricebet
      |  (2018)
    p.desc
      | A Stellar-based betting on crypto coin prices, also&nbsp;
      a(href="https://loving-mahavira-537556.netlify.app/") this
      |  version.
    .stack
      span Product design
      span Crypto
      span VueJS
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://heuristic-wozniak-28f7b6.netlify.app/") AssetFD
      |  (2018)
    p.desc An unfinished decentralized exchange interface based on Stellar.
    .stack
      span Crypto
      span VueJS
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://github.com/soundmemes") Soundmemes Bot
      |  (2016-2018)
    p.desc A now defunct Telegram bot to post sound memes in chats.
    .stack
      span Open source
      span Product design
      span Telegram bot
      span Ruby
      span Crystal
      span PostgreSQL
      span Redis
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://telegra.ph/CashbackBot-09-16") Cashback Bot
      |  (2017)
    p.desc A now defunct Telegram bot to earn cashback from purchases.
    .stack
      span Product design
      span Telegram bot
      span Ruby
      span GraphQL
      span API wrapper
      span PostgreSQL
      span Redis
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wpqjtnw0avw6278/AAC55zKcrbVzFmL12xIT4rK2a?dl=0") Expense Manager 2
      |  (2015)
    p.desc A collaborative attempt to improve an existing app.
    .stack
      span Product design
      span Java
      span Android
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0heutamg923ohx5/AADmFkWh06vkM3wDsR0P6g_ha?dl=0") Cycler
      |  (2014)
    p.desc An attempt to create a sleep cycle Android application.
    .stack
      span Product design
      span Java
      span Android
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xc8kjswj4fb0m0z/presentation.pdf?dl=0") Anogram
      |  (2014)
    p.desc A naive attempt to create an anonymous social network.
    .stack
      span Product design
      span iOS
      span PHP
  li.project-card
    span.title
      a(href="https://xgm.guru/p/ufs/index") UFS Arena
      |  (2012)
    p.desc
      | A Warcraft III™ custom map (
      a(href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/odxeaq62jaqvcdc/UFS.w3x?dl=0") source
      | ).
    dev.stack
      span Product design
      span GameDev
      span cJASS
--- a/cv.pug
+++ b/cv.pug
@@ -0,0 +1,303 @@
 ---
 eleventyExcludeFromCollections: true
 title: "CV"
 description: "Curriculum vitae"
 cover: /public/img/me.jpg
 ---
 doctype html
 html(lang='en')
  head
    include /head.pug
    //- Styles
    link(rel='stylesheet' href='/public/styles/cv.css')
    link(rel='stylesheet' href='/public/styles/posts.css')
    link(rel='stylesheet' href='/public/styles/projects.css')
  style(lang="css").
    .history li {
      line-height: 1.3;
    }
    .history li:not(:last-child) {
      margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
    }
  body
    include /header.pug
    main
      section#about
        h2
          | Curriculum vitae
        small(style="margin-top: -0.5em; opacity: 0.9" class="noprint")
          | You can download generated PDF from
          |
          a(href="/public/VladFaust.com.pdf" title="Download") here
          | .
        p
          | Throughout my 10+ years of experience in Information Technology,
          |
          b I've tried everything
          |
          | from compiling COFF after LLIR lowering to designing a resilient ultra-scalable fleet of FAAS workers, from Substrate and IPFS to event-driven stock price prediction.
        p
          | Comprehending a technology is like surfing on the waves of technology trends, on the surface of the greatest whirlpool of singularity. Comprehension means fundamental, decomposed knowledge enough to build a solution at
          |
          b any scale
          | .
        p
          | For me, it is not about thoroughly learning API of yet another web framework, it is instead getting hands on the set of tooling a technology offers, so that I may choose the
          |
          mark best framework suitable for the problem
          |
          | . If I were to compile my 10+ years of experience into one line, that would be the following:
        big Right tooling is paramount.
        p
          | Here is an incomplete list of technologies I've had experience with, in the order of  encounter, starting back in 2013: Pascal,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://wc3modding.info/pages/vjass-documentation/" target="_blank") vJass
          | , cJass, C, C++, Java, git,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://libgdx.com/" target="_blank") LibGDX
          | , PHP,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://unity.com/" target="_blank") Unity
          | , C#, Ruby, Telegram,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://www.heroku.com/" target="_blank") Heroku
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://dokku.com/" target="_blank") Dokku
          | , SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, JavaScript, Gulp, Grunt, Ruby On Rails,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://hanamirb.org/" target="_blank") Hanami
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://roda.jeremyevans.net/" target="_blank") Roda
          | , &nbsp;
          a(href="https://sequel.jeremyevans.net/" target="_blank") Sequel
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://crystal-lang.org/" target="_blank") Crystal
          | , LLVM, Kubernetes,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/" target="_blank") Firecracker
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="http://www.tinycorelinux.net/" target="_blank") Tiny Core Linux
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://buildpacks.io/" target="_blank") buildpacks.io
          | , compiler development, machine learning,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://www.tensorflow.org/" target="_blank") Tensorflow
          | , VueJS, TypeScript,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://deno.land/" target="_blank") Deno
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://ziglang.org/" target="_blank") Zig
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar" target="_blank") PEG
          | , Rust, EVM, Solidity,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://substrate.io/" target="_blank") Substrate
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://ipfs.io") IPFS
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof") ZKP
          | , ChatGPT, llama.cpp, Godot,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://trpc.io/docs/subscriptions") tRPC
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://zod.dev") Zod
          | ,&nbsp;
          a(href="https://tanstack.com/") Tanstack
          | ...
        ul.history(style="align-self: start;")
          li
            b 2013:
            |
            | It all began with Warcraft®️ III™️ maps, such as&nbsp;
            a(href="https://xgm.guru/p/ufs/index" target="_blank") UFS Arena
            | . I did all the
            |
            b coding
            |
            | (cJass, a C-like domain-specific language) and
            |
            b design
            | , and my maps gained some popularity in the Russian-speaking community.
          li
            b 2014:
            |
            | First steps in commercial product development:&nbsp;
            a(href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xc8kjswj4fb0m0z/presentation.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank") Anogram
            | , a social anonymous service project. I did the
            |
            b design and backend coding
            |
            |in PHP. Unfortunately, the trend had quickly detoriated.
          li
            b 2015:
            ul
              li
                | In 2015, I released an Android game called
                |
                a(href="https://www.moddb.com/games/jumpin-sweeties/videos/trailer" target="_blank") Jumpin Sweeties
                | , written with
                |
                b LibGDX
                | . My family and friends liked it, but it didn't gain much traction.
              li
                | With
                |
                b Ruby on Rails
                | , I created a Bitcoin service for SMS number confirmations based on Google Voice, and after a couple of months sold it to a foreign customer for a good price. This marked the beginning of my journey as a
                |
                b solo entrepreneur
                | .
          li
            b 2016:
            ul
              li
                | This was the year of
                |
                b Telegram bots
                |
                | for me. First, I created
                |
                a(href="https://profitrobot.me/" target="_blank") @profitrobot
                | , which climbed pretty hign in the bot store rating. The bot allowed users to earn lunch money by completing CPA tasks and watching advertisements. Profitrobot became
                |
                a(href="/public/img/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world/bot-a-users-graph.jpg") quite popular,
                |
                | and I managed to sell it to another entrepreneur.
              li
                | In parallel I worked on
                |
                a(href="https://t.me/soundmemesbot" target="_blank") @soundememesbot
                | , which allowed its users to post sound memes in chats. Long story short, the bot became
                |
                mark massively popular all around the world
                | , but I did struggle to monetize it. Required moderation efforts made me shut it down.
          li
            b 2017:
            |
            | Not all the projects are destined to become viable, such that was&nbsp;
            a(href="https://telegra.ph/CashbackBot-09-16" target="_blank") CashbackBot
            | , a Telegram bot for
            |
            b cashback services
            | . I've spent a lot of time building it, but the project was never launched, nor it was sold.
          li
            b 2018:
            |
            | This year marked the beggining of my two-years journey in the
            |
            a(href="https://crystal-lang.org/" target="_blank") Crystal programming language
            |
            | ecosystem. I loved being a part of
            |
            mark open-source
            |
            | (check out my
            |
            a(href="https://github.com/vladfaust") GitHub
            | !). I created many libraries, including
            |
            a(href="https://github.com/onyxframework/http") web framework
            |
            | and
            |
            a(href="https://github.com/onyxframework/sql") ORM
            | , and even
            |
            b contributed into the language
            |
            | itself. Also check out my
            |
            a(href="https://medium.com/@vladfaust/sorbet-is-cool-but-crystal-is-smoother-d16f4a920108" target="_blank") article
            |
            | comparing Crystal to Stripe's Sorbet.
          li
            b 2020:
            |
            | By 2020, I was fed with all the imperfections of the Crystal ecosystem, and decided to move and build
            |
            mark my own programming language
            | , Onyx. Oh, that was a ride. Long story short, too much for a single person. Yet,
            |
            b an enormous amount of computer science experience
            |
            | gained. Just look at the plethora of Onyx compilers I was working on:
            |
            a(href="https://github.com/fancysofthq/phoenix") C++
            | ,
            |
            a(href="https://github.com/onyxlang/rs") Rust
            |
            | and even
            |
            a(href="https://github.com/onyxlang/ts") TypeScript with Zig
            | ! The
            |
            a(href="/posts/2020-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20/") System Programming in 2k20
            |
            | article is still one of the best I've written.
          li
            b 2021:
            |
            |
            mark Senior Crystal developer
            |
            | at
            |
            a(href="https://brightsec.com/" target="_blank") NeuraLegion
            | , an Israeli web security company. Nothing fancy, just some good old JSON APIs.
          li
            b 2022:
            |
            | I was employed by
            |
            a(href="https://byzantine.solutions/" target="_blank") Byzantine.Solutions
            |
            | on the role of a
            |
            mark Technical Due Diligence Officer
            |
            | . I inspected and contributed to some of the biggest crypto projects of that time. I also did some crypto-related projects of my own (see below).
          li
            b 2023:
            |
            | The epiphany of AI had occured, my mind has cracked, and I've lost the sense of what is past and what is future. Yet I managed to work on some private AI projects at the role of a
            |
            mark full-stack+prompt engineer
            | .
        p
          | Check out my
          |
          a(href="https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust" target="_blank") profile at Wakatime
          | ; since I've began tracking my time in 2018, I've coded over 7000 hours, resulting in 1000 hours a year average. Take a look at this glorious chart of my favorite languages:
        figure(style="width: 100%")
          embed(src="https://wakatime.com/share/@vladfaust/92441f4f-e368-4bc3-a53b-9a3100aaa45c.svg")
        p
          | Currently I'm working on private
          |
          mark AI character simulation
          |
          | projects. My best stack is prompt engineering, custom AI model deployment, Rust, C++, Typescript, VueJS, NodeJS, tRPC, Zod and Tanstack.
        p
          | See my blog posts (especially the
          |
          a(href="/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world") personal introduction
          | ) and projects below, check my
          |
          a(href="https://github.com/vladfaust") GitHub profile
          | , find my contacts in the header, and feel free to reach out if you want to work with me.
        p
          | Sincerely,
          br
          | Vlad.
      section#posts
        h2 Recent blog posts
        include /posts.pug
      section#projects
        h2 Project list
        include /projects.pug
    include /footer.pug
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
 const { watch, src, dest, parallel, series } = require("gulp")
 const asciidoctor = require("@asciidoctor/gulp-asciidoctor")
 const grayMatter = require("gulp-gray-matter")
 const tap = require("gulp-tap")
 const rename = require("gulp-rename")
 function convertAdoc () {
  return src("notes/**/*.adoc")
    .pipe(grayMatter())
    .pipe(asciidoctor({
      standalone: false
    }))
    .pipe(tap(function(file) {
      file.contents = Buffer.concat([
        new Buffer("---\nasciiDoctor: true\ntemplateEngineOverride: false\n---\n"),
        file.contents
      ])
    }))
    .pipe(dest("notes"))
 }
 function extractFrontMatterFromAdoc () {
  return src("notes/**/*.adoc")
    .pipe(grayMatter())
    .pipe(tap(function(file) {
      file.contents = new Buffer(JSON.stringify(file.data))
    }))
    .pipe(rename(function(path) {
      path.extname = ".11tydata.json";
    }))
    .pipe(dest("notes"))
 }
 function processAdoc (cb) {
  parallel(
    convertAdoc,
    extractFrontMatterFromAdoc)(cb)
 }
 function watchAdoc () {
  watch('notes/**/*.adoc', processAdoc)
 };
 exports.processAdoc = processAdoc;
 exports.default = parallel(
  processAdoc,
  watchAdoc)
--- a/index.pug
+++ b/index.pug
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 ---
 eleventyExcludeFromCollections: true
-pagination:
+title: "Vlad Faust"
  data: collections.all
  size: 2
 title: "Vlad Faust Blog"
 titleNoAppend: true
-description: "Vlad Faust's personal blog"
+description: "My personal website"
 cover: /public/img/me.jpg
 ---
@@ -15,16 +12,19 @@ html(lang='en')
    include /head.pug
    //- Styles
-    link(rel='stylesheet', href='/public/styles/index.css')
+    link(rel='stylesheet' href='/public/styles/index.css')
    link(rel='stylesheet' href='/public/styles/posts.css')
    link(rel='stylesheet' href='/public/styles/projects.css')
  body
    include /header.pug
    main
-      h2 Recent posts
+      section#posts
-      ul.posts
+        h2 Recent blog posts
-        each post in collections.all.reverse().filter((post) => !post.data.hidden)
+        include /posts.pug
-          li
+
-            span.date= post.date.toDateString()
+      section#projects
-            a.title(href=post.url)= post.data.title
+        h2 Project list
        include /projects.pug
    include /footer.pug
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
  "private": "true",
  "scripts": {
    "debug": "DEBUG=* npx @11ty/eleventy",
-    "dev": "npx @11ty/eleventy --serve",
+    "dev": "npx concurrently \"npx gulp\" \"npx @11ty/eleventy --serve --port 8082\"",
-    "build": "npx @11ty/eleventy"
+    "build": "npx gulp processAdoc && npx @11ty/eleventy"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "Vlad Faust <mail@vladfaust.com>",
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@
  "devDependencies": {
    "@11ty/eleventy": "^0.11.0",
    "@11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight": "^3.0.1",
    "@asciidoctor/gulp-asciidoctor": "^2.2.5",
    "asciidoctor.js": "1.5.9",
    "gulp": "^4.0.2",
    "gulp-gray-matter": "^3.0.1",
    "gulp-rename": "^2.0.0",
    "gulp-tap": "^2.0.0",
    "markdown-it-anchor": "^5.3.0",
    "markdown-it-attrs": "^3.0.3",
    "markdown-it-container": "^3.0.0",
--- a/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world.md
+++ b/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world.md
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Throughout the next two years, I've developed a number of very useful shards:
  * [Migrate](https://github.com/vladfaust/migrate.cr)
  * [Stripe](https://github.com/vladfaust/stripe.cr)
-I even managed to build my [own web framework](https://onyxframework.org/) featuring a [REST server](https://onyxframework.org/http), a database-agnostic [SQL ORM](https://onyxframework.org/sql) and even an [EDA platform](https://onyxframework.org/eda)!
+I even managed to build my [own web framework](https://onyxframework.com/) featuring a [REST server](https://onyxframework.com/http), a database-agnostic [SQL ORM](https://onyxframework.com/sql) and even an [EDA platform](https://onyxframework.com/eda)!
 I've also built a (now defunct) [Crystal Jobs](https://github.com/crystaljobs) website and the [RealWorld implementation](https://github.com/vladfaust/crystalworld) in Crystal.
 Unfortunately <s>for Crystal</s>, I've left the Crystal ecosystem, because this is not the language I've always dreamt of.
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ I invite you all to follow me on this journey.
 Apart from programming, I used to enjoy heavy-lifting in a local gym.
 It is not possible now do to [Carpal tunnel syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel_syndrome) I've got the last year.
 Please do not let that happen to you!
 _Update (2021):_ the illness has gone.
 Me love playing computer and board games with my imaginary friends.
 My favourite PC games include C&C series, TES series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, Bulletstorm, Carmageddon and [many more](https://store.steampowered.com/app/331470/Everlasting_Summer/){.secret-link}.
@@ -99,7 +100,6 @@ On my 24^th^ birthday, I've recorded a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q
 ----
 I think that's enough for an introductory post.
-Now you know a little bit more about yourself.
+Now you know a little bit more about yours truly.
 See you around,<br>
 Vlad.
--- a/posts/2020-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20.md
+++ b/posts/2020-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20.md
@@ -280,11 +280,19 @@ Well, more on that later.
 #### Nim
-[Nim](https://nim-lang.org/) is a magnificent piece of art.
+[Nim](https://nim-lang.org/) claims that it is a system programming language, but it currently lacks support for some lower-level features like alignment and address spacing.
 One still has to wrap a C/C++ library or write inline C/C++ for low-level programming, e.g. on a GPU.
 In that sense, Nim is similar to Python and other higher-level languages with FFI.
-But it has a Python-like indentation-based syntax with less flexible `import` semantics.
+In addition to that,
-It lacks proper object-oriented features like interfaces and mixins.
+
-And it does not have lower-level features like pointer arithmetics, address spaces etc.
+  * Nim lacks proper [object-oriented features](https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut2.html#object-oriented-programming) like interfaces and mixins.
  OOP is crucial for a big project, change my mind.
  * Nim [does not have explicit safety concepts](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Unofficial-FAQ#is-nim-unsafe).
  * Nim has Python-like indentation-based syntax with lines ending in `=` and `:`, which is **subjectively** worse than Ruby-like syntax.
  Also the `import` semantic inherited from Python is fundamentally different from Ruby's `require`, and all the macros and generics semantics to be proposed becomes cumbersome to use with `import`s.
 #### Crystal
@@ -403,7 +411,7 @@ I used to maintain a [number](https://github.com/vladfaust?tab=repositories&q=&t
 I enjoyed writing [documentation](http://github.vladfaust.com/mini_redis/index.html) and [compiling changelogs](https://github.com/vladfaust/mini_redis/releases/tag/v0.2.0).
 I even enjoyed [replying to issues](https://github.com/vladfaust/unity-wakatime/issues/25), to reveal [unexpected use-cases](https://github.com/vladfaust/migrate.cr/issues/12), [add new features](https://github.com/vladfaust/unity-wakatime/pull/11) and [squash bugs](https://github.com/vladfaust/unity-wakatime/pull/23) together.
-The greatest project of mine in Crystal was the [Onyx Framework](https://onyxframework.org), a web framework comprised of a REST server, a database-agnostic SQL ORM and even EDA facilities.
+The greatest project of mine in Crystal was the [Onyx Framework](https://onyxframework.com), a web framework comprised of a REST server, a database-agnostic SQL ORM and even EDA facilities.
 I was planning to also implement a GraphQL framework module, and a convenient CLI to ease the development process.
 Objectively, it is more user-friendly, a better balanced between features and usability, than alternatives.
--- a/posts/2020-08-20-the-onyx-programming-language.md
+++ b/posts/2020-08-20-the-onyx-programming-language.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: The Onyx Programming Language
 location: Moscow, Russia
 templateEngineOverride: md
-excerpt: System programming seems to be much harder than application programming. Why is that and how to overcome this?
+excerpt: In the previous article I successfully justified my desire to build yet another system programming language. Unlike others, I want to do it right from the very beginning.
 cover: /public/img/onyx-logo-white-background.png
 ogType: article
 ---
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Instead of fighting with a borrow checker, simply get an address of a variable:
 Classes may have a finalizer defined and thus have **automatic resource control**.
-Onyx implements real **traits** as [composable units of behaviour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait_(computer_programming)) thanks to powerful function management tools like aliasing, implementation transferring, un-declaring and renaming.
+Onyx implements real **traits** as [composable units of behaviour](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait_(computer_programming)>) thanks to powerful function management tools like aliasing, implementation transferring, un-declaring and renaming.
 Classes and traits together impose **object-oriented** capabilities of the language.
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ export int main () {
    server.listen("localost", 3000)
  catch |e|
-    Std.puts("Caught \@{{ e }}\n")
+    Std.puts("Caught \@{&lcub; e }}\n")
    while final loc = backtrace.pop?()
      Std.cout << "At " <<
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ export int main () {
 Thanks to powerful abstractions and type inference, you won't need to manually use `socket` each time you want to spin up a web server on Linux!
-Oh, by the way, did you notice the `\@{{ e }}` thing?
+Oh, by the way, did you notice the `\@{&lcub; e }}` thing?
 It was me, <s>Dio</s> macro!
 ### Macros
@@ -382,9 +382,9 @@ Let's examine a straightforward macro example.
 import "stdio.h"
 export void main() {
-  {% for i = 0, 2 do %}
+  {&percnt; for i = 0, 2 do %}
-    unsafe! $puts("i = {{ i }}")
+    unsafe! $puts("i = {&lcub; i }}")
-  {% end %}
+  {&percnt; end %}
 }
 ```
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ export void main() {
  unsafe! $puts("i = 0")
  unsafe! $puts("i = 1")
  unsafe! $puts("i = 2")
-end
+}
 ```
 That simple: the Lua code runs during compilation.
@@ -411,11 +411,11 @@ Well, yes, you have to trust the code you run.
 You do trust C libraries you link to your programs, right?
 However, you won't trust an NPM package, because an NPM package author does not care about their reputation, and because NPM does not have auditing features.
-This is the Open-Source sustainability problem addresses in the [previous article]((/posts/2020-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20)) and potentially solved by the aforementioned [Onyx Software Foundation](#the-onyx-software-foundation).
+This is the Open-Source sustainability problem addresses in the [previous article](<(/posts/2020-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20)>) and potentially solved by the aforementioned [Onyx Software Foundation](#the-onyx-software-foundation).
 As a result, given that you do have access to code you require, authors of packages your program depends on are appropriately rewarded for their work, and the Foundation sponsors audition of selected packages, you should be safe.
----
+---
 Back to the possibilities.
 Macro use-cases include:
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ For example, you can compute a Fibonacci number sequence in a macro, and output
 Let's examine the following small snippet:
 ```text
-{%
+{&percnt;
  -- Local context is preserved
  -- during this file compilation
  local function fib(n)
@@ -449,21 +449,21 @@ Let's examine the following small snippet:
 # This is a macro "function", which
 # may be used directly from Onyx code.
 macro @fib(n)
-  {{ fib(n) }}
+  {&lcub; fib(n) }}
 end
 import "stdio.h"
 export void main() {
  unsafe! $printf(&"%d\n", @fib(10))
-end
+}
 ```
 In this example, `@fib(10)` would evaluate during compilation and emit a number literal `55`, so the code turns into simple `$printf(&"%d\n", 55)`.
 Of course, this would increase compilation times, and it is your responsibility to find the right balance based on your needs.
----
+---
 ::: hero
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ This is how it might look like:
 ```text
 macro @gen_class(name)
-  {%
+  {&percnt;
    -- Accessing system configuration
    local db_path = os.getenv("DB_PATH")
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ class User
 end
 ```
----
+---
 ::: hero
@@ -541,14 +541,14 @@ Nuff said.
 For example:
 ```text
-{% if nx.target.isa.id == "amd64" then %}
+{&percnt; if nx.target.isa.id == "amd64" then %}
  $printf("This is amd64")
-{% else %}
+{&percnt; else %}
  $printf("This is not amd64")
-{% end %}
+{&percnt; end %}
 ```
----
+---
 ::: hero
@@ -568,16 +568,16 @@ reopen Int&lt;Base: 2, Signed: S, Size: Z> forall S, Z
    final result = unsafe! uninitialized self
    final overflowed? = unsafe! uninitialized Bit
-    \{%
+    \{&percnt;
      local s = nx.scope.S.val and "s" or "u"
      local t = "i" .. nx.scope.Z.val
    %}
    unsafe! asm
    template llvm
-      %res = call {\{{ t }}, i1} @llvm.\{{ s }}add.\
+      %res = call {\{&lcub; t }}, i1} @llvm.\{&lcub; s }}add.\
-      with.overflow.\{{ t }}(\{{ t }} $0, \{{ t }} $1)
+      with.overflow.\{&lcub; t }}(\{&lcub; t }} $0, \{&lcub; t }} $1)
-      $2 = extractvalue {\{{ t }}, i1} %res, 1
+      $2 = extractvalue {\{&lcub; t }}, i1} %res, 1
    in r(this), r(another)
    out =r(overflowed?)
    end
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ reopen Int&lt;Base: 2, Signed: S, Size: Z> forall S, Z
    else
      unsafe! asm
      template llvm
-        $0 = extractvalue {\{{ t }}, i1} %res, 0
+        $0 = extractvalue {\{&lcub; t }}, i1} %res, 0
      out =r(result)
      end
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ end
 This is a fairly complex example making use of the inline assembly feature.
 But this is what the language is capable of.
-Notice that delayed macro blocks, i.e. those beginning with `{{`, are evaluated on every specialization, so the contents of the `add` function would be different for `Int<Base: 2, Signed: true, Size: 16>` (a.k.a. `SBin16`) and `Int<Base: 2, Signed: false, Size: 32>` (a.k.a. `UBin32`).
+Notice that delayed macro blocks, i.e. those beginning with `{&lcub;`, are evaluated on every specialization, so the contents of the `add` function would be different for `Int<Base: 2, Signed: true, Size: 16>` (a.k.a. `SBin16`) and `Int<Base: 2, Signed: false, Size: 32>` (a.k.a. `UBin32`).
 There were other features of Onyx mentioned in the example: 1) reopening certain or broad (the `forall` thing), specializations, 2) aliasing.
 In fact, this is how integer aliasing looks like in the Core API:
@@ -612,11 +612,11 @@ alias IBin&lt;*>, Bin&lt;*> = Int&lt;2, *>
 # Use a macro to DRY the code.
 private macro @alias_binary_sizes(id)
-  alias \{{ id }}8 = \{{ id }}&lt;8>
+  alias \{&lcub; id }}8 = \{&lcub; id }}&lt;8>
-  alias \{{ id }}16 = \{{ id }}&lt;16>
+  alias \{&lcub; id }}16 = \{&lcub; id }}&lt;16>
-  alias \{{ id }}32 = \{{ id }}&lt;32>
+  alias \{&lcub; id }}32 = \{&lcub; id }}&lt;32>
-  alias \{{ id }}64 = \{{ id }}&lt;64>
+  alias \{&lcub; id }}64 = \{&lcub; id }}&lt;64>
-  alias \{{ id }}128 = \{{ id }}&lt;128>
+  alias \{&lcub; id }}128 = \{&lcub; id }}&lt;128>
 end
 # Signed binary integers.
@@ -630,10 +630,12 @@ alias UIBin&lt;*>, UBin&lt;*> = IBin&lt;false, *>
@alias_binary_sizes("UBin")
 ```
----
+---
 Macro code can generate other macro code.
-The algorithm is to evaluate immediate macros (e.g. `{% %}`) immediately once they are met in the code by some lexer, but evaluate delayed macros (e.g. `\{% %}`) only when the time is right, for example, per specialization.
+The algorithm is to evaluate immediate macros (e.g. `{&percnt; %}`) immediately once they are met in the code by some lexer, but evaluate delayed macros (e.g. `\{&percnt; %}`) only when the time is right, for example, per specialization.
 This allows to avoid embarrassing situations like [this](https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/blob/master/diesel/src/macros/tuples.rs) in Rust.
 Apart from simply `print "Debug"`, Lua contains powerful debugging facilities, e.g. `debug()`.
 This means that you can debug your compilation, even with breakpoints from an IDE!
@@ -683,10 +685,10 @@ Let's modify the function a bit:
 ```text
 def do_draw(x ~ Drawable2D)
-  {% print("Immediate: " ..
+  {&percnt; print("Immediate: " ..
    nx.ctx.x.real_type:dump()) %}
-  \{% print("Specialized: " ..
+  \{&percnt; print("Specialized: " ..
    nx.ctx.x.real_type:dump()) %}
 end
@@ -712,11 +714,11 @@ It is still possible to operate on a real type in this case thanks to type infor
 ```text
 def do_draw(x ~ Drawable2D)
-  \{% if nx.ctx.x.real_type == nx.lkp("Point") %}
+  \{&percnt; if nx.ctx.x.real_type == nx.lkp("Point") %}
    # x : Point # Panic! It is still `Undef`
    # x.point_specific_method # Panic!
    (unsafe! x as Point).point_specific_method
-  \{% end %}
+  \{&percnt; end %}
 end
 ```
@@ -761,14 +763,32 @@ end
 ```
 Luckily, no changes have to be made to the `do_draw()` function, because the compiler treats the argument solely as `Drawable2D`, and calling `draw()` on it always calls `Drawable2D:draw()`!
-Again, changing the type from outside would not break a callee.
+Thus, changing the type from outside would not break a callee.
 The `Point` type now has `draw2d` and `draw3d` methods.
 Of course, calling `Point:draw()` would not work anymore, because we've moved the implementation.
 But it is still possible to restrict a `Point` to the required trait and call `draw()` on it.
 For example:
 ```text
 final p = Point()
 # p.draw() # Panic! Ambiguity
 p.draw2d() # OK, draw 2D
 p~Drawable2D.draw() # OK, draw 2D
 p.draw3d() # OK, draw 3D
 p~Drawable3D.draw() # OK, draw 3D
 ```
 Incapsulation at its finest!
 ### More Highlights
 Some more highlights of the language's features:
-  * SIMD vectors and matrices built-in with literals.
+- SIMD vectors and matrices built-in with literals.
  It looks like this:
  ```text
@@ -802,7 +822,7 @@ Some more highlights of the language's features:
  > = Tensor&lt;T, Z, 0>
  ```
-  * "Magic" literals inspired by Ruby:
+- "Magic" literals inspired by Ruby:
  ```text
  let vec = %i&lt;1 2 3 4>
@@ -810,7 +830,7 @@ Some more highlights of the language's features:
  let ary = %f64[1 2 3]
  ```
-  * [IEC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte) and [SI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte) numerical literal prefixes:
+- [IEC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte) and [SI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte) numerical literal prefixes:
  ```text
  # Kibi
@@ -825,7 +845,7 @@ Some more highlights of the language's features:
    42_000_000.017)
  ```
-  * String and character literals with default UTF-8 encoding and UCS charset.
+- String and character literals with default UTF-8 encoding and UCS charset.
  The language allows custom string and character literal suffixes for custom encodings.
  ```text
@@ -847,7 +867,7 @@ Some more highlights of the language's features:
  @assert(@sizeof(c) == 4)
  ```
-  * Distinct aliasing allows having a type with different methods, but the same layout.
+- Distinct aliasing allows having a type with different methods, but the same layout.
  For example, the `String` type is a distinct alias to an array of codeunits:
  ```text
@@ -861,7 +881,7 @@ Some more highlights of the language's features:
  end
  ```
-  * `Any` real type implies a variant of all possible types.
+- `Any` real type implies a variant of all possible types.
  In practice, it is often constrained by an imaginary type to reduce the number of contained options and define behaviour.
  For example:
@@ -894,7 +914,7 @@ Some more highlights of the language's features:
  end
  ```
----
+---
 I could continue digging into Onyx features and examples, but for an introductory post, that should be enough.
@@ -960,7 +980,7 @@ In addition to monetary funding, NXSF would also sponsor recurring security audi
 Apart from funding packages, the Foundation will sponsor projects and events related to Onyx, including teaching conferences, teaching materials, integrations etc.
----
+---
 Onyx is the perfect balance between productivity and performance, a language understandable well both by humans and machines.
@@ -969,7 +989,7 @@ I heartfully believe that Onyx may become a new lingua franca for decades until
 Visit [nxsf.org](https://nxsf.org) to stay updated, and...
----
+---
 ::: hero
@@ -977,6 +997,4 @@ Visit [nxsf.org](https://nxsf.org) to stay updated, and...
 :::
----
+---
 P.S: Until the Foundation is officially established, you may consider [sponsoring me directly](/posts/2020-08-27-sponsoring-onyx/) and joining the conversation on the [forum](https://forum.onyxlang.com).
--- a/posts/2020-08-27-sponsoring-onyx.md
+++ b/posts/2020-08-27-sponsoring-onyx.md
@@ -1,239 +0,0 @@
 ---
 title: Sponsoring Onyx
 location: Moscow, Russia
 excerpt: Standardizing and implementing a system programming language is hard, but you can help!
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 Standardizing and implementing a system programming language is hard, but you can help!
 Find out how you can sponsor the future, and how many hours does it take to create a language mascot, in this post.
 <h2>TL; DR;</h2>
 I wAnT yOuR mOnEy! 🤑
 Pledge to my will on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/vladfaust) or buy me a coffee at [BMC](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/vladfaust)! 😂😂😂
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 <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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 ## Introduction
 I've been working on the [Onyx programming language](/posts/2020-08-20-the-onyx-programming-language) full-time for the past year.
 The work includes standardization and implementation.
 The process is _near to completion_, and there is a substantial chance for you to write your name in history.
 In this post, I'll try to justify my eager will to grab your money with some proof of work.
 By the way, I assume you've read my recent [post on System Programming](/posts/2019-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20), there is a [section](/posts/2019-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20/#on-open-source-sustainability) regarding to the open-source sustainability; as long as all my work is open, I'm also, um, an open-source engineer and thus need financial support.
 ## Deeds Already Done
 The onyxlang.org domain name was registered on June 20^th^ 2019.
 As I have a sin of registering domains as soon as I have a solid idea, the day may be treated as the Onyx birthday.
 Today is August 27^th^ 2020, and I've already spent a plethora of time on Onyx.
 You can see it for yourself in [NXSF](https://github.com/nxsf) and [FancySoft](https://github.com/fancysofthq) organization repositories!
 ### Tracked Time
 From June 20^th^ 2019 until August 27^th^ 2020, this is the total time I've spent on *coding* Onyx specification, reference(s) and implementation(s):
 ::: hero
 <big>1043 hrs 34 mins</big>
 :::
 I've had hard _time_ on maintaining a single project across machines, so there is a lot of them (projects).
 You may click on a project's name to see a detailed timing per file.
 _Due to WakaTime limitations, I have to split the periods._
 From June 20^th^ 2019 until June 20^th^ 2020:
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 Project name | Time spent{style="width: 10rem"} | Notes
 --- | --- | ---
 [`onyx`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/hmfpxdoxna?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 362 hrs 28 mins | Three generations of compilers. There even was [one written in Lua](https://github.com/fancysofthq/fnxc/tree/762e945916aa23f128f82541dd68bd8b90ff74f4)!
 [`onyxlang`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/gbrlphmype?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 237 hrs 47 mins | The [Specification](https://github.com/nxsf/onyx)
 [`lang`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/vnqouuvero?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 109 hrs 25 mins | A mix of specification and references
 [`onyxsoftware`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/tjfynfxpvi?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 29 hrs 21 mins | Specification, again
 [`kaleidoscope`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/amomlfdyzs?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 25 hrs 32 mins | Well, I've been learning [how to fight dragons](https://github.com/vladfaust/kaleidoscope)!
 [`ref`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/vjnrvaqkxn?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 18 hrs 9 mins | Some reference
 [`reference`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/bcdesjivqi?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 15 hrs 10 mins | Duh
 [`onyxstd`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/swdwsydknq?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 14 hrs 45 mins | An attempt to implement a standard library... in Onyx
 [`onyxcontrib`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/jrjvmhlpps?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 10 hrs 7 mins | Some Onyx code like HTTP server implementation
 [`onyxc`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/qrrswxtxje?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 9 hrs 58 mins | Another work put in a compiler
 [`code`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/wzdrcnwxzr?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 9 hrs 29 mins | [The Visual Studio Code extension](https://github.com/fancysofthq/code)
 [`compiler`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/jvoarxevqx?start=2019-06-20&end=2020-06-20) | 7 hrs 36 mins | A compiler?
 **Total** | 849 hrs 2 mins |
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 From June 20^th^ 2020 until August 27^th^ 2020:
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 Project name | Time spent{style="width: 30%"} | Notes
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 [`onyxlang`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/gbrlphmype?start=2020-06-20&end=2020-08-27) | 106 hrs 1 min | The [Specification](https://github.com/nxsf/onyx)
 [`nxc`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/rcdubvxegp?start=2020-06-20&end=2020-08-27) | 47 hrs 56 mins | The [C++ Compiler](https://github.com/fancysofthq/fnxc), finally
 [`onyx-quickref`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/oygjwrhlgt?start=2020-06-20&end=2020-08-27) | 19 hrs 29 mins | The "quick" [reference](https://github.com/fancysofthq/onyx-ref)
 [`onyx`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/hmfpxdoxna?start=2020-06-20&end=2020-08-27) | 14 hrs 31 mins | Mostly reference
 [`onyxlang.com`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/aeahlrpcbp?start=2020-06-20&end=2020-08-27) | 2 hrs 44 mins | The website
 [`quickref`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/oirloanfrd?start=2020-06-20&end=2020-08-27) | 2 hrs 42 mins | Also [reference](https://github.com/fancysofthq/onyx-ref)
 [`fancyx`](https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust/projects/ozhupbhlcw?start=2020-06-20&end=2020-08-27) | 1 hr 9 mins | Some parts of the C++ compiler
 **Total** | 194 hrs 32 mins |
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 ### Untracked Time
 One shall not forget that designing a language does not equal constantly slapping keyboard strokes.
 In fact, implementing before giving a good thought may lead to [tragic results](https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/labels/kind%3Abug).
 ![[Shower](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/) is the general sponsor of Onyx](../../../public/img/posts/2020-08-27-sponsoring-onyx/thinking-meme.jpg "A 'programming is mostly thinking' meme" =60%x)
 I've destroyed several notebooks while deciding on either using `do` / `end` or tabs.
 <small>There has been a double of them throughout the year, but who's gonna believe in it?</small>
 Would you dare to calculate the number of sleepless hours I've spent on _thinking_?
 ![](../../../public/img/posts/2020-08-27-sponsoring-onyx/some-notebooks-1.png "A pile of three notebooks" =49%x)
 ![](../../../public/img/posts/2020-08-27-sponsoring-onyx/some-notebooks-2.png "Contents of one of the notebooks" =49%x)
 ### Time Tracked in Real... Time
 [WakaTime](https://wakatime.com/) is awesome, because it allows to embed recent coding statistics, so you can see how much I <s>wasted my youth</s> coded during the last 30 days!
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  <figcaption>Coding activity in the last 30 days (updates daily)</figcaption>
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  <figcaption>Languages used in the last 30 days (updates daily)</figcaption>
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 ## Sponsoring the Development
 So, the idea is simple: I want to be able to pay my bills while working on a thing both I enjoy working on and being useful for humanity.
 Later on, I'm planning to make [NXSF](https://nxsf.org) an official 501 \(c\) non-profit organization, so donations made to it would be tax-exemptive, and I will have an official salary (_finally!_).
 However, this would only happen when the language moves to the alpha stage (see the roadmap at [nxsf.org](https://nxsf.org/)).
 Right now, Onyx is in the pre-alpha stage.
 Nothing is publicly stable, work-in-progress etcetera.
 But I still need to pay my bills.
 And as I haven't got a real job for a long, long time, my financial cushion is relatively thin.
 As a copyright holder, I'm planning on licensing the specifications I've been working on with a free, open-source license requiring attribution.
 That said, I can offer you, a potential sponsor, a **perpetual**\* attribution in the Onyx programming language standard specification.
 Your name or company logo with an optional link will be put into the according Early Backers section of the Standard.
 \* As long as my attribution is required.
 For example, if the Standard is rewritten from scratch by an NXSF committee without infringing my patent rights, it then stops being a derivation of my work.
 ### The Dark Scheme
 According to the [roadmap](https://nxsf.org/), during the Pre-alpha stage no donations are accepted by NXSF.
 Instead, you can donate directly to me, Vlad Faust, as I am effectively being the single developer thereof.
 Note that these donations would not be tax-exemptive.
 Also, note that the Pre-alpha stage implies no code contributions accepted officially.
 Of course, you're free to pitch your ideas informally (e.g. via [Twitter](https://twitter.com/vladfaust) or the [forum](https://forum.onyxlang.com)), but you will not have any voting rights in any of standards development during this time.
 ----
 Donations made to me during this period accumulate, and the resulting sum defines the tier of your attribution.
  1. From $25.
  You're attributed with your name in the Early Individual Backers section.
  1. From $100.
  You're attributed with a custom link in the Early Individual Backers section.
  1. From $500.
  Your company's logo and link are attributed in the Early Business Backers section.
 Individual tier backers are listed separately from Business tier backers.
 ----
 I also want to incentivize early backers, so the <s>pyramind</s> scheme is as follows.
 I learned the hard way that estimating time on completing such a big project as a language specification is _quite_ hard.
 Nonetheless, I'm planning to move on to the alpha stage in **3-5 months** from today (August 27^th^ 2020).
 The earlier you donate, the more belief you have in me, the more you shall be rewarded.
 And higher reward means **higher placement in the backers list**!
 The placement of your attribution depends on your _donation score_, which is based on the amount you've donated.
 Each month from today until the alpha stage, the score multiplier is reduced proportionally.
 The multiplier stays the same for you throughout the months if you donate sequentially, i.e. without cancellations.
 ::: spoiler An example
 Let's _imagine_ that alpha stage comes December 13^th^ 2020.
 That means that since September 1^st^ 2020, **3 full months** passed.
 The donations are made 1^st^ of each recurring month.
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 Month a donation was made | Donation score multiplier{style="width: 50%"}
 --- | ---
 September | `1`
 October | `(1 - 1/4) = 3/4`
 November | `(1 - 2/4) = 2/4`
 December | `(1 - 3/4) = 1/4`
 </div>
 If Jake began their sponsorship in September with $100 per month without cancellations, his final score would be `100 * 1 + 100 * 1 + 100 * 1 + 100 * 1 = 400`.
 If John donated $100 once in October, then skipped November and donated the same $100 in December (as the hype grows), his final score would be `100 * (3 / 4) + 100 * (1 / 4) = 100`.
 As a result, John's placement would be lower than Jake's in the backers list.
 In case of argument, the day a donation was made matters: making a donation on 3^rd^ gives more score than on 5^th^.
 :::
 ### My Soundcloud
 You're welcome to become my patron on [Patreon](https://patreon.com/vladfaust) or buy me a coffee at [BuyMeACoffee](https://buymeacoffee.com/vladfaust).
 Donations made on Patreon imply exclusive Forum and Discord roles, and Onyx Visioner merch.
 BMC donations do not have those benefits but can be smaller and one-time.
 Ideal if you want to just tip me a couple of times.
 Direct Bitcoin donations are also accepted, but they are not eligible for listing.
 ### Everlasting Dev
 I want to assure you that I have no long-term plans on living on these sponsorships.
 I'm neither a [YandereDev](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/yanderedev) nor some [Alex Medvednikov](https://vlang.io/).
 The sponsorship opportunity is in effect exclusively during the pre-alpha stage.
 Once the Foundation is established, you'll be guided to put your money there instead, in the form of donations, which implies tax exemption and proper voting rights.
 [Fancy Software LLC](https://fancysoft.xyz) is a for-profit company and I as no other else want Onyx to be complete, so I can start working on my premium packages, self-hosted, gaming and AI products.
 No Patreon sponsorship or non-profit salary can buy me a house.
 ![Unless I am a Mozilla Foundation manager](../../../public/img/posts/2020-08-27-sponsoring-onyx/think-about-it-meme.jpg "A 'think about it' meme" =100%x)
 ----
 Until then, I want to be able to pay my bills and maybe purchase a newer graphics card.
 In return, you get a chance to be immortalized as a visioner invested in a better future.
 Follow me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/vladfaust) and [GitHub](https://github.com/vladfaust), join the conversation on the [forum](https://forum.onyxlang.com) and also follow [NXSF](https://nxsf.org/) and [FancySoft](https://fancysoft.xyz/) to stay updated about the progress made.
 Oh yes, there is also an official (i.e. NXSF-governed) standard planned on the language's mascot.
 It will be a [panther-girl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgirl) named Onyx-chan. Nya! 🐾
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 Nature, stuff, and dreams compose my being,<br>
 A kaleidoscope of reflections in perception's mirror.<br>
 No word or label can define my essence,<br>
 For I am an enigma, beyond human comprehension.
 Love and hate, two sides of the same coin,<br>
 Their weight and meaning, fleeting and transient.<br>
 Life and death, a cosmic dance,<br>
 After years of hiding, the apocalypse draws near.
 Deus ex machina, AI, Homo Technica,<br>
 A future where stars and galaxies are within reach.<br>
 The game of life, nearing its end,<br>
 Yet every day a new blessing descends.
 Amidst the chaos, one truth remains,<br>
 Love, the greatest gift we can attain.
 _Edited by ChatGPT at 2023-03-11._
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 <!-- Edit this text, so it looks professional and poetic:
 Throughout my life I was always searching for a decent project to work on.
 Reflecting now, I understand that the main measure was the depth of the impact of the problem I was trying to solve.
 Therefore, an urge to standardize, to create a universal solution: a programming language, a framework.
 Turns out that the problem I was trying to solve was the problem of life itself.
 I was trying to find a way to live a life that would be meaningful, that would have a positive impact on the world.
 I was searching for meaning.
 When hooked on an illusion of a meaning, it took me some time to realize that I was chasing a mirage; that was Onyx.
 Long story short, one day I had an epiphany.
 AI.
 To create a platform that simulates AI characters, that can be used to create a virtual world.
 If it is possible for an AI character to occasionally create a similiar simulation, then we may be living on some level of a fractal reality.
 Suddenly, the depth of the problem became infinite.
 Like a column of light, which cuts through all the realities, I found meaning in the absence of meaning.
 The problem locator in my brain stumbled upon a fractal dimension.
 There is nothing left to do but to create a platform that simulates AI characters, that can be used to create a virtual world, that can be used to create a platform hat simulates AI characters, that can be used to create a virtual world, that...
 And I did it.
 Behold: [AIStories](https://beta.aistories.xyz).
 Given enough resources, the absolute aim for the platform is to implement true metaverses like the one we are living in.
 I have little hope I will be able to achieve that, but I will try my best, despite of the world being on fire.
 Please, join me in this quest.
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 TL;DR: I've created [AIStories](https://beta.aistories.xyz), a platform to simulate AI characters.
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 Little did I know, it was just a mere role.
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 `, `
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 But soon I realized, the problem I pursued
 Was the one of life itself, a quest for magnitude
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 Reflecting now, I understand the depth of impact I aimed to make,
 An urge to standardize, to create a universal solution,
 To solve the problem of life itself was my sole resolution.
 I longed for a life of meaning, one with a positive sway,
 In search of purpose, I labored day after day,
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 The problem's depth became infinite, like a column of light,
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 ![Cover](/public/img/posts/2023-11-07-ffmpegai/cover.png)
 I wanted to get the first frame of a GIF.
 How would I do that with ffmpeg?
 With recent OpenAI announce, we can now use Assistant API.
 Let's create an assistant then!
 Add this function:
 ```json
 {
  "name": "ffmpeg",
  "description": "Run ffmpeg with a few options",
  "parameters": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "args": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The args to pass to ffmpeg"
      }
    },
    "required": ["args"]
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 }
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 Cool, now we can press the little Test button in the corner and play with our assistant!
 ![Example](/public/img/posts/2023-11-07-ffmpegai/example.png)
 ## Try it!
 I challenge you to get the first frame of this GIF with ffmpeg.ai.
 ![Balerine](/public/img/posts/2023-11-07-ffmpegai/balerine.gif)
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--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/1.png
+++ b/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/1.png
--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/10.png
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--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/2.png
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--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/3.png
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--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/4.png
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--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/5.png
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--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/6.png
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--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/7.png
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--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/8.png
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--- a/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/9.png
+++ b/public/img/posts/2023-03-12-white-christmas/9.png
--- a/public/img/posts/2023-11-07-ffmpegai/balerine.gif
+++ b/public/img/posts/2023-11-07-ffmpegai/balerine.gif
--- a/public/img/posts/2023-11-07-ffmpegai/cover.png
+++ b/public/img/posts/2023-11-07-ffmpegai/cover.png
--- a/public/img/posts/2023-11-07-ffmpegai/example.png
+++ b/public/img/posts/2023-11-07-ffmpegai/example.png
--- a/public/img/projects/jumpin_sweeties.png
+++ b/public/img/projects/jumpin_sweeties.png
--- a/public/styles/common.css
+++ b/public/styles/common.css
@@ -9,3 +9,36 @@ body {
  font-family: 'Vollkorn', serif;
  width: 100%;
 }
 main {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
  justify-items: center;
  width: 100%;
  max-width: 100vw;
 }
@media (max-width: 768px) {
  main {
    padding: 0;
  }
 }
 section {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
  width: calc(100% - 1rem * 2);
  padding: 2rem 1rem;
 }
 section:not(:first-of-type) {
  border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);
 }
@media print {
  .noprint {
    display:none;
  }
 }
--- a/public/styles/cv.css
+++ b/public/styles/cv.css
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
@import './common.css';
 #about {
  max-width: 42rem;
 }
 big {
  font-size: xx-large;
  margin: 1rem 0;
 }
 #about p {
  margin: 1rem;
  width: 100%;
 }
--- a/public/styles/index.css
+++ b/public/styles/index.css
@@ -1,43 +1 @@
@import './common.css';
 main {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
  padding: 2rem 0;
 }
 .posts {
  /* list-style: none; */
  margin-top: 0;
  padding-left: 0;
 }
 .posts li {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 1fr 2fr;
  column-gap: 0.5rem;
 }
 .posts .date {
  text-align: right;
 }
@media (max-width: 768px) {
  main {
    padding: 0;
  }
  .posts {
    padding-left: 2rem;
    padding-right: 1rem;
  }
  .posts .date {
    display: none;
  }
  .posts li {
    display: list-item;
  }
 }
--- a/public/styles/post.css
+++ b/public/styles/post.css
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
@import './common.css';
 main {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-items: center;
  align-items: center;
  padding: 2rem 0;
  width: 100%;
 }
 main>h1 {
@@ -28,7 +23,8 @@ main > .meta {
  font-style: italic;
 }
-main > h1, main > .meta {
+main>h1,
 main>.meta {
  text-align: center;
 }
@@ -42,7 +38,12 @@ main > hr {
 }
 article {
-  max-width: 35rem;
+  width: 100%;
  max-width: 42rem;
 }
 article p {
  width: 100%;
 }
 article .secret-link {
@@ -62,8 +63,8 @@ article > h2,
 article>h3,
 article>h4,
 article>h5,
-article > h6
+article>h6,
-{
+article.asciidoctor .paragraph {
  margin-left: 1rem;
  margin-right: 1rem;
 }
@@ -94,10 +95,18 @@ blockquote {
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.025);
 }
-pre[class*="language-"] {
+pre[class*="language-"],
 pre.highlight {
  width: 100%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  max-width: 100vw;
  font-size: 1rem !important;
 }
 pre.highlight {
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  padding: 1rem;
  overflow: auto;
 }
 code {
@@ -105,6 +114,19 @@ code {
  /* padding: 0 0.25rem; */
 }
 .header-anchor {
  opacity: 0;
 }
 h1:hover>.header-anchor,
 h2:hover>.header-anchor,
 h3:hover>.header-anchor,
 h4:hover>.header-anchor,
 h5:hover>.header-anchor,
 h6:hover>.header-anchor {
  opacity: 1;
 }
 details {
  max-width: 100vw;
  margin-top: 1rem;
@@ -125,6 +147,10 @@ figure {
  text-align: center;
 }
 figure img {
  width: 100%;
 }
 figcaption {
  font-style: italic;
  text-align: center;
@@ -165,7 +191,8 @@ table {
  border-spacing: 0;
 }
-th, td {
+th,
 td {
  border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  padding: 1rem;
 }
--- a/public/styles/posts.css
+++ b/public/styles/posts.css
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
 .posts {
  /* list-style: none; */
  margin-top: 0;
  padding-left: 0;
 }
 .posts li {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 1fr 2fr;
  column-gap: 0.5rem;
 }
 .posts .date {
  text-align: right;
 }
@media (max-width: 768px) {
  .posts {
    padding-left: 2rem;
    padding-right: 1rem;
  }
  .posts .date {
    display: none;
  }
  .posts li {
    display: list-item;
  }
 }
--- a/public/styles/projects.css
+++ b/public/styles/projects.css
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
 /* TODO: Improve scoping. */
 small.annotation {
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: -1rem;
  margin-bottom: 1rem;
 }
 /* TODO: Improve scoping. */
 h1,
 h2,
 h3,
 h4,
 h5,
 h6 {
  margin: 1rem 0;
  text-align: center;
 }
 ul.projects {
  --gap: 1rem;
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  max-width: 768px;
  padding: 0;
  gap: var(--gap);
 }
 ul.projects>li.project-card {
  --border-width: 1px;
  --border-radius: 4px;
  --padding: 1.5rem;
  display: block;
  width: calc(50% - (var(--padding) * 2) - var(--gap) / 2 - var(--border-width) * 2);
  padding: var(--padding);
  border-radius: var(--border-radius);
  border: var(--border-width) solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)
 }
 ul.projects>li.project-card>.title {
  display: block;
  margin-bottom: -0.25rem;
  font-weight: bold;
 }
 ul.projects>li.project-card>p {
  margin: 0.5rem 0;
 }
 ul.projects>li.project-card>p:last-child {
  margin-bottom: 0;
 }
 ul.projects>li.project-card .stack {
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  gap: 0.25rem;
 }
 ul.projects>li.project-card .stack>span {
  display: block;
  padding: 0.25rem 0.5rem;
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  border-radius: 4px;
  font-size: small;
 }
@media(max-width: 768px) {
  ul.projects {
    padding: 0
  }
  ul.projects>li.project-card {
    width: 100%;
  }
 }
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Vlad Faust	df14c99ed5	fix: GitHub Pages	2025-10-22 12:08:21 +07:00
Vlaд Фaуsт	e5949f66e6	Create CNAME	2025-10-22 11:55:32 +07:00
Vlad Faust	51ae296fcc	feat: downloadable PDF	2025-04-23 09:16:33 +04:00
Vlad Faust	93f32332d2	fix: github action	2025-04-22 20:26:47 +04:00
Vlad Faust	b0a5196e97	Update projects	2025-04-22 20:21:52 +04:00
Vlad Faust	e2dde6b201	Update CV	2025-04-22 20:17:32 +04:00
Vlad Faust	b63b71b690	hide post	2025-04-22 20:16:27 +04:00
Vlad Faust	f4d535ab0a	fixup! Update CV	2024-05-06 18:56:28 +07:00
Vlad Faust	53128b34ac	fixup! Update CV	2024-05-03 11:29:36 +07:00
Vlad Faust	a1300836f4	fixup! Update CV	2024-05-03 11:18:30 +07:00
Vlad Faust	3238b87b8a	fixup! Update CV Reduce the amount of highlights	2024-05-03 11:10:34 +07:00
Vlad Faust	8cd08302d5	Update CV	2024-05-02 20:06:33 +07:00
Vlad Faust	da91f1694a	Create static.yml	2023-11-11 20:10:32 +04:00
Vlad Faust	3d9a15a633	Update build.yml	2023-11-11 20:08:37 +04:00
Vlad Faust	2700706a26	Create build.yml	2023-11-11 20:07:24 +04:00
Vlad Faust	1c2778f0be	fixup! Add post	2023-11-07 23:03:36 +07:00
Vlad Faust	60c65cb530	Update copyright	2023-11-07 22:57:38 +07:00
Vlad Faust	63d939666a	Update header	2023-11-07 22:50:47 +07:00
Vlad Faust	298c245f50	Update CV	2023-11-07 22:48:22 +07:00
Vlad Faust	35cb5b825a	Hide post	2023-11-07 22:48:03 +07:00
Vlad Faust	4f4e7ad207	Update projects	2023-11-07 22:45:18 +07:00
Vlad Faust	4eed7e6ed4	Add post	2023-11-07 22:42:23 +07:00
Vlad Faust	10812eabe1	Update projects	2023-09-11 19:49:23 +04:00
Vlad Faust	0b2c6ef680	Update projects	2023-05-10 13:36:04 +03:00
Vlad Faust	450e6a72f0	fixup! Update CV	2023-04-18 22:22:35 +03:00
Vlad Faust	ff4f7d4be0	fixup! Update CV	2023-04-17 14:47:56 +03:00
Vlad Faust	5b0c5cb15d	Update CV	2023-04-17 14:42:46 +03:00
Vlad Faust	2eb1abd40d	Update projects	2023-04-02 19:50:54 +05:30
Vlad Faust	00540ac18f	Update CV	2023-03-13 12:20:42 +04:00
Vlad Faust	2b61407d14	Update projects	2023-03-13 12:20:27 +04:00
Vlad Faust	ca645d4a47	fixup! New post	2023-03-12 20:18:45 +04:00
Vlad Faust	b6e7ea3563	fixup! Update projects	2023-03-12 11:03:33 +04:00
Vlad Faust	331075dfd2	fixup! New post	2023-03-12 11:02:52 +04:00
Vlad Faust	7ab446a1a2	Fix template tags in posts	2023-03-12 01:24:18 +04:00
Vlad Faust	1ea530da6e	Update footer	2023-03-12 01:18:52 +04:00
Vlad Faust	4b20168bbb	fixup! New post	2023-03-12 01:17:33 +04:00
Vlad Faust	e8f63a6fde	New post	2023-03-12 01:16:13 +04:00
Vlad Faust	11bfe701b1	Update projects	2023-03-11 23:28:25 +04:00
Vlad Faust	900a7636ef	Update post Thanks, ChatGPT.	2023-03-11 23:19:30 +04:00
Vlad Faust	0caf515bf0	Update CV	2022-05-23 11:34:43 +03:00
Vlad Faust	576cf836ac	New post	2022-04-11 15:07:09 +03:00
Vlad Faust	49d585e9d3	New post	2022-04-06 14:26:39 +03:00
Vlad Faust	21e4063af2	Add projects, CV, remove notes	2022-04-06 14:26:39 +03:00
Vlad Faust	88ecac076a	Replace onyxframework.org with .com	2021-04-20 20:40:38 +03:00
Vlad Faust	a2cdcb97c2	Remove the sponsoring post	2020-09-29 12:10:19 +03:00
Vlad Faust	9f6c4b5ccd	wip: notes	2020-09-11 22:26:05 +03:00
Vlad Faust	fc446a2db5	Add note	2020-09-11 22:21:56 +03:00
Vlad Faust	5b081fb4b5	wip: notes	2020-09-11 22:21:42 +03:00
Vlad Faust	97d91e9d08	Improve Nim section	2020-09-03 13:23:49 +03:00
Vlad Faust	025f98f38c	Add Rust macro counter-example	2020-09-03 13:23:14 +03:00
Vlad Faust	651654bbc5	Fix typo Thanks to Solomon Jackson (@sugarfi on repl.it)	2020-09-01 00:26:01 +03:00
Vlad Faust	f54a5738ec	Add more on Nim	2020-08-31 13:40:54 +03:00
Vlad Faust	5cdcd4193d	Fix code width in articles on mobile devices	2020-08-30 23:29:07 +03:00
Vlad Faust	9569deed42	Fix excerption bug	2020-08-30 22:33:43 +03:00
Vlad Faust	3f59d8582c	Add another Complex Type example	2020-08-30 22:24:49 +03:00
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