Book Cube: 2026, page 7
Book Cube publications from 2026, page 7: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #Travel
Science Museum (Category Travel)
Science Museum (Rubric Travel ) We were at the Science Museum in London on a weekday and it was really cool. The museum is located next to Imperial College London, has five floors and each floor is dedicated to its theme. Entrance to the museum is free, but you can donate as much as you want. We arrived two hours before closing and practically ran through the expositions of engineering, space, flights, computers, medicine and at the exit we managed to buy gifts for children. The next time we visit London, we will definitely come with our children.
- · #Startups
Zero to One (Zero to one. How to create a startup that will change the future) (Category Startups)
Zero to One (Zero to one. How to create a startup that will change the future) (Rubric Startups ) Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir 2014 This is a summary of his Stanford course he had read a couple of years before. In this course, Peter was not talking about recipes for success, but about a shift in thinking: how to make a new category out of technology, rather than another product, which will be slightly better than competitors.
- · #Travel
The studio where Harry Potter was filmed (Category Travel)
The studio where Harry Potter was filmed (Rubric Travel ) Yesterday, Nastya and I were at Warner Brosers Studios near London, where all the books about the Boy Who Survived were filmed. We looked at the pavilions, interiors, costumes, special effects and we really liked everything. You can see that a lot of work was done, but the result was a legendary film adaptation. We’ll be here in May, but with the kids.
- · #API
The Rise and Rise of FastAPI (API rubric)
The Rise and Rise of FastAPI (Rubric API ) Interesting. mini-documentary About FastAPI, which lasts less 10 minutes. It talks about how FastAPI went through the ultra-fast growth of an open source project along a path of view: side-project → “industrial default” for the Python API. After the documentary, I became interested in the fate of this project and it seems that FastAPI “shot” not because it was “fast”, but because it gathered in one place:
- · #Engineering
A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++ (Category Engineering)
A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++ (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. history Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, author of the C++ programming language. The whole story was filmed in the town of Aarhus (Denmark)where he was born in 1950 He studied at the University of Aarhus, where he also received a master’s degree. He then defended his PhD at Cambridge and then worked at Bell Labs alongside Kernighan, Ritchie, Morris and others.
- · #Travel
Travel to London
Travel to London Yesterday we started. 10+ hours flew to London with a transfer to Baku, and then all day wandered around it. The weather was great: sunshine,10 degrees and the smell of spring. In the end, we found order. 20 Thousands of steps and managed to walk around the city center and return to the room. Hours in 20 Local time we're out, and this morning we're going on a personal tour of Leicester Square.
- · #Management
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan (Category Management)
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan (Rubric Management ) Interesting. podcast Lenny, in which Brian Holligan came to him, co-founder and ex-CEO HubSpot. They discussed leadership and business in the age of AI: how to hire, grow and sell when old playbooks are bursting at the seams. Brian was CEO. 15 He now acts as an internal CEO coach at Sequoia and hosts a leadership podcast. Long Strange Trip.
- · #Engineering
Laravel Origins: A PHP Documentary (Category Engineering)
Laravel Origins: A PHP Documentary (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. documentary About the Laravel framework, which, in my opinion, occupied the niche of Ruby on Rails, but instead of Ruby, PHP is the language here. In the film, there are key people and they tell the story of the project. For example, one of the main roles for Taylor Otwell, who created Laravel and now acts as a BDFL framework. ("benevolent dictator for life")There is also a Jeffrey Way.
- · #Architecture
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Category Architecture)
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Rubric Architecture ) This weekend, Grisha and I are from the club. talk About preparing for the System Design Interview and how I came to life the way I built the site. system-design.space.
- · #AI
[2/2] OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear (AI column)
\[2/2\] OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear (Rubric AI ) Interview It was very interesting and breakthrough, but always interesting, how to translate these ideas into a practical channel.
- · #AI
[1/2] OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear (AI column)
\[1/2\] OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear (Rubric AI ) Interesting and short. interview Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw (recently moved to OpenAI) Prolocal-first personal agents and how they can "eat" most of the usual software. Interviewed by Raphael Schaad, Visiting Partner at Y Combinator; Founder/CEO Cron (The project bought Notion). Below are the main insights
- · #Culture
Musical in the attic (Category Culture)
Musical in the attic (Rubric Culture ) I was with my wife at this musical yesterday. Children's musical theater "Generation" And we really liked it. We had a schedule setup and we were both going there separately and we were late. 10 minutes, and my wife for half an hour, but as we got there, we were immediately allowed into the hall and we were able to enjoy a concert based on hits in the musical genre familiar from childhood.
- · #Architecture
Modular Monoliths and Other Facepalms - Kevlin Henney - NDC London 2026 (Category Architecture)
Modular Monoliths and Other Facepalms - Kevlin Henney - NDC London 2026 (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. video Kevlin Henney, where he is an evangelist of monoliths, modular monoliths:) To cut it short, he says the problem was not monoliths, but tangled dependencies and blurred boundaries. Microservices do not treat poor decomposition. But they just make mistakes more expensive. (network, consistency, observation, operation).
- · #Architecture
How to Take Google Ideas and Build Your Own Architectural Quality Control (Category Architecture)
How to Take Google Ideas and Build Your Own Architectural Quality Control (Rubric Architecture ) In the past. post "Understanding Architectural Complexity, Maintenance Burden, and Developer Sentiment - a Large-Scale Study." Now, what I'd like to talk about is the practical steps you can take at home if you're not Google, but you want to control the quality of architecture and the amount of debt you owe.
- · #Architecture
Understanding Architectural Complexity, Maintenance Burden, and Developer Sentiment - a Large-Scale Study (ICSE’25) (Category Architecture)
Understanding Architectural Complexity, Maintenance Burden, and Developer Sentiment - a Large-Scale Study (ICSE’25) (Rubric Architecture ) I finally got my hands on writing about this. fancy whitepaper about the connection of the quality of architecture with the load on support of the solution and perception of the engineers of the project itself. Lead author of this article was Yuanfang Cai, a professor at Drexel University and author of metrics applied, and the Google Developer Infrastructure/Engineering Productivity Research team.
- · #Games
It takes two (Games rubric)
It takes two (Rubric Games ) Almost. 20 I haven’t played a computer game in years, but this year we bought a PS for kids. 5 with lots of toys. But Nastya. (my wife) I didn’t miss it and bought this game. We played it sometimes in the evenings and in a month and a half passed. The game was very interesting, fun, sometimes psychological and suggestive of family life. The whole story revolves around the parents of a little girl who decided to divorce. Their mom and dad end up in their home as toys and they have a long way to go to become human again.
- · #AI
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny (AI column)
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny (Rubric AI ) Interesting. interview Anthropic's Boris on Y Combinator's Lightcone podcast. The discussion revolved around Claude Code and how Boris created one of the most successful AI tools in the form of a simple terminal product, and what happens next. When it comes to key insights, they are
- · #Architecture
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Category Architecture)
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Rubric Architecture ) Tomorrow, 21 February, in 11 In the morning in Moscow, Grisha and I from the club {between parentheses } We decided to get together and talk. About preparing for the System Design Interview and how I came to life the way I built the site. system-design.space We will discuss exactly what is in the meeting program.
- · #Engineering
History of Linux and UNIX! Who gave birth to all modern systems! (Category Engineering)
History of Linux and UNIX! Who gave birth to all modern systems! (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. video About the history of operating systems from the channel PRO Hi-Tech, from which it is clearly seen that in the history of unix or gnu linux won not “one feature”, but a combination of ideas + institutions. (people, licenses, standards, communities). From the timelan of events, it is clear that many technologies took part in the course of this story.
- · #DistributedSystems
The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math (Category Distributed Systems)
The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math (Rubric DistributedSystems ) In this video Lesley Lamport 8 He talks for a minute about special relativity, causality, distributed systems, and how it all fits together. This video is a short interview with Quanta Magazine where he explains the meaning of his classic phrase. You realize that you are using a distributed system when a computer failure that you didn’t even know existed causes the entire system to shut down and, for you, you can’t do your job.
- · #AI
"Engineers are becoming sorcerers" The future of software development with OpenAI's Sherwin Wu (AI column)
"Engineers are becoming sorcerers" The future of software development with OpenAI's Sherwin Wu (Rubric AI ) Another one. show-off Lenny's Podcast, in which Lenny communicates with Sherwin Wu, who directs the engineering of the OpenAI API / Developer Platform. Sherwin describes a shift in the role of an engineer from “writing code” to “managing a fleet of AI agents” and making engineering decisions at a higher level of abstraction.
- · #AI
How McKinsey Plans to Survive AI (and Reinvent Consulting) (AI column)
How McKinsey Plans to Survive AI (and Reinvent Consulting) (Rubric AI ) Interesting half-hour episode HBR IdeaCast podcast featuring Adi Ignatius (HBR) Talking to Bob Sternfels (Global Managing Partner: CEO of McKinsey). The main idea revolves around the fact that AI is 30–50Percent "technology" and the rest is organizational design and processes. If you “pin the LLM on top of the old process,” there will be local automation, but not systemic growth throughput.
- · #Software
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds (Category Software)
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds (Rubric Software ) Interesting. story Linus Torvaldas on how 20 years ago, April 2005-ho, Linus for 10 The first version of Git was released. He did this because Linux kernel developers had their favorite tool taken away. (BitKeeper). Git was born out of pain: CVS Linus hated, SVN considered "the same CVS". He admits that he originally wrote Git "for himself", not worrying about the convenience of others.
- · #DevOps
Inside Argo: Automating the Future (Category DevOps)
Inside Argo: Automating the Future (Rubric DevOps ) If you have Kubernetes in the market, then this film This is the story of how Argo grew from a workflow engine into a toolkit for automating depots and processes around them. (Workflows / CD / Rollouts / Events). In the frame there are key people who stood at the origins of Argo and who 2017 The year Argo was launched and how the community and a set of related tools gradually appeared around it.
- · #AI
Dyad - local-first AI app builder: like Lovable/Bolt, only on your computer (AI column)
Dyad Local‐first AI app builder: like Lovable/Bolt, only on your computer (Rubric AI ) I told you about the product once. Lovable, a kind of "AI app builder", in which he wrote a request → received code changes → saw a preview → published for sale. In fact, Dyad does exactly this cycle, but locally . In fact. repositories Dyad is a local/open-source alternative to Lovable/v0/Bolt. (This is an alternative approach to cloud platforms.).
- · #Documentary
[2/2] Nvidia’s Explosive Rise from Zero to Trillions (Category Documentary)
\[2/2\] Nvidia’s Explosive Rise from Zero to Trillions (Rubric Documentary ) Continue. story About the story of Nvidia, I should mention the insights of the film that came to me after watching it.
- · #Documentary
[1/2] Nvidia’s Explosive Rise from Zero to Trillions (Category Documentary)
\[1/2\] Nvidia’s Explosive Rise from Zero to Trillions (Rubric Documentary ) I watched this with great interest. documentary Nvidia’s transformation from a startup on the verge of bankruptcy to a company worth $3 The film spans the journey from the bottom to the bottom. 1993 One year before the current dominance of AI. I was interested to see what stages the company went through and what conclusions can be drawn from us as engineers and technical managers.
- · #ForKids
Giiker Decipher (ForKids Category)
Giiker Decipher (Rubric ForKids ) I’ve become a fan of Giiker toys – they’re very tactile and also fun to play. So on this toy-decoder hooked my five-year-old son Cyril, with whom before going to bed now games in making a code, and then solving in turn. The essence of this game is what we have. 4 slots in which the color code is given. We have. 7 Trying to guess it. And guessing and guessing in the game is controlled by an orange torque, which can be pressed to set the code or check it.
- · #Software
Borland: rise and fall of a software enmire - the delphi story (Category Software)
Borland: rise and fall of a software enmire - the delphi story (Rubric Software ) I saw it the other day. documentary Borland has created revolutionary tools for developers (Turbo Pascal, Delphi). I can understand how I wrote my undergraduate degree at Delphi. 6 (Cellular model of the world for calculations of biogeocenosis + climate for climate prediction). It was somewhere in 2006-2007 For years, Delphi was already in decline, although once they were on horseback and the future looked promising.
- · #Humor
Marco Spada at the Grand Theatre (Humor column)
Marco Spada at the Grand Theatre (Rubric Humor ) It is a tradition that every year I go with my wife to the Bolshoi Theatre in winter. These are usually gifts for New Year or my birthday. At this pace, I gradually begin to understand ballet, but I still have a question - why do girls in ballet dresses, and men have thermal underwear:)
- · #Startup
Professor Ilya Strebulayev on how to capitalize on your ideas and appreciate your failures (Startup Category)
Professor Ilya Strebulayev on how to capitalize on your ideas and appreciate your failures (Rubric Startup ) Watched the cool. interview Ilya Strebulaeva is a Stanford professor and an expert in corporate finance and venture capital. Ilya gave it to Alexey Pivovarov, a foreign agent and the presenter of the editorial project. They talked about shifting the logic of venture investors.
- · #Engineering
T-Sync conference - photo (Category Engineering)
T-Sync conference - photo (Rubric Engineering ) Today I looked at the photos from the conference and realized that it turned out to be large-scale. Plus, the new format brought a breath of fresh air. Conventional conferences focus on the broadcast approach to broadcasting knowledge - from speaker to others. And even though they talk about networking, it's focused on collecting free staff from the stands.
- · #Software
TypeScript Origins: The Documentary (Category Software)
TypeScript Origins: The Documentary (Rubric Software ) I looked the other day. TypeScript Origins Documentary OfferZen. It features TypeScript creator Anders Heilsberg and other key community members, from Microsoft engineers to JetBrains developers, Bloomberg, Deno, and others. The film tells how and why Microsoft created TypeScript and how the language and its ecosystem have evolved since its first release. Below, I’ll share my main insights from this film, and what this means to us as engineers and technology leaders.
- · #Engineering
The rise of the professional vibe coder (Category Engineering)
The rise of the professional vibe coder (Rubric Engineering ) Lenny did it the other day. interview About Wibe coding with Lazar Jovanovic from Lovable (His title is “Professional Vibe Coder.”). And there is a perfectly formulated that how to use Lovable and not only for vibe engineering and fast delivery of features to your application. From the interview you can get many insights, including the following:
- · #Engineering
Former GitHub CEO Launches New Company to Create New Developer Platform (Category Engineering)
Former GitHub CEO Launches New Company to Create New Developer Platform (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. news Thomas, who recently left Microsoft (specifically from GitHub)To start my own startup. He came out of the unknown with the announcement of EntireHQ, which raised $60 Millions in a round with a valuation of $300 A new platform with a similar vision Git-compatible database that combines code, intent, limitations, and reasoning into a single version control system.
- · #SystemDesign
Update: SDS (System-Design.Space)
Update: SDS ( System-Design.Space ) From the past update I did not stop working on the project and added a bunch of new ones to the site: Added complexity to chapters and marked them up Added filtering by material type and complexity
- · #Security
The Untold Story of Log4j and Log4Shell Christian Grobmeier GitHub (Category Security)
The Untold Story of Log4j and Log4Shell Christian Grobmeier GitHub (Rubric Security ) I watched with great interest. history About one of the largest facade in the history of security, which was told by a direct participant of the events - Christian Grobmayer, Apache Log4j Maintainer, member of the Apache Software Foundation. The man who in December 2021 Suddenly he was responsible for half the internet.
- · #Culture
Liam Wong: TO:KY:00 (Category Culture)
Liam Wong: TO:KY:00 (Rubric Culture ) A beautiful book with photos of Liam Wong, who was an art director at Ubisoft, traveled the world and at some point became interested in photography and became a professional in it. This book presents his series of robots about Tokyo, which appears before us in the entourage of Ridley Scott's cyberpunk, which we saw in Blade Runner. And the running man himself was an adaptation of the book "Do androids dream of electric sheep" Philipp Kindred DickOne of my favorite science fiction writers.
- · #AI
Interview with ‘Just use a VPS’ bro (OpenClaw version) (AI column)
Interview with ‘Just use a VPS’ bro (OpenClaw version) (Rubric AI ) I haven't laughed so much in a while. video:) Considering the fact that I like to mess with Linux myself, the humor hit the point - I used to have to read manuals, but now all sorts of perplexity help me with these settings. This video mocks the stereotypical paranoid sysadmin and self-hosting culture (self-hosting). Humor is built on the contrast between the simple desire of the user.
- · #Travel
Travel to London (Category Travel)
Travel to London (Rubric Travel ) In a couple of weeks, my wife and I are going to London for the first time:) When I started learning English at a school in Severodvinsk and said "London is the capital of Great Britain" I never imagined that I would go to this very London. It is true that now travel has become routine, but I asked my wife to add a visit to our trip. Bletchley ParkDuring World War II, Bletchley Park was home to the UK’s main encryption unit and is now home to the National Computer Museum.
- · #AI
[2/2] 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report - How coding agents are reshaping software development (AI column)
\[2/2\] 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report - How coding agents are reshaping software development (Rubric AI ) In this post, we'll finish. Download the short trend-report AnthropicIt gives you the focus of what to do in 2026 As engineers and executives, we need to keep up with the rapidly changing software industry. 3️⃣ Impact trends: What agents may change in 2026
- · #AI
[1/2] 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report - How coding agents are reshaping software development (AI column)
\[1/2\] 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report - How coding agents are reshaping software development (Rubric AI ) Anthropic posted curious account Key Trends in “Agent Coding” 2026 year. This document paints a picture of how development increasingly relies on AI agents to write code while people set goals and control the outcome. They cite statistics that the developers of Anthropic use AI in 60Percentage of tasks, but only fully trusted 0–20percentage (This is from their December article, "How AI is transforming work at Anthropic." told).
- · #Software
The history of C and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg GitHub (Category Software)
The history of C and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg GitHub (Rubric Software ) Interesting. interview Anders Heilsberg, creator of C , Delphi, Turbo Pascal and lead architect of TypeScript, which he gave to GitHub. Andreas examines how C and TypeScript were created and what trade-offs were behind the solutions and what principles help languages and commands live long.
- · #BookCube
A large-scale conference turned out:) From my second floor, you can see all the other stands perfectly - I decided to rest a little, as a little ossip for an hour and a half to talk about the study.
A large-scale conference turned out:) From my second floor, you can see all the other stands perfectly - I decided to rest a little, as a little ossip for an hour and a half to talk about the study. And in another hour and a half, I will be leading an engineering discussion about the impact of AI on development:)
- · #Engineering
T-Sync Conf and the AI4SDLC Study 2025 from T-Bank (Category Engineering)
T-Sync Conf and the AI4SDLC Study 2025 from T-Bank (Rubric Engineering ) Today, I'm going to spend the whole day at T-Sync, where there's no talk but more discussion and space. In fact, I'm going to have an area on the second floor where we can talk about AI4SDLC, which we launched last year with a community survey. The study itself is available on the website ai4sdlc.tbank.ru by clicking on the tab "Study" It consists of two parts:
- · #Processes
Nearly intelligent systems (Smart (enough) systems) (Category Processes)
Nearly intelligent systems (Smart (enough) systems) (Rubric Processes ) I found a book on my shelf about intelligent systems that almost came out. 20 years ago. I read it a long time ago and it had a lot of clever words. And now I opened it and realized that if half of the terms from there were replaced with words like “GenAI”, “multi-agent systems”, “RAG” or “context engineering”, the text would look like a fresh architectural guide to building intelligent systems.
- · #DistributedSystems
Local-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data a mini-doc (Category Distributed Systems)
Local-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data a mini-doc (Rubric DistributedSystems ) I saw it. interesting mini-documentaryI was interested in Martin Kleppman, author of DDIA and one of the apologists for the local-first approach. In fact, this approach offers an alternative to centralizing information storage in the cloud. (And therein lies the source of truth.). In local-first applications, “truth” is stored on the user’s device, works without the Internet, and syncs with the cloud as an extra copy.
- · #AI
Official PyTorch Documentary: Powering the AI Revolution (AI column)
Official PyTorch Documentary: Powering the AI Revolution (Rubric AI ) I’ve been hooked on technology documentaries lately – it’s very interesting to watch stories about how tech products were created, which are now de facto industry standards. And this is exactly the PyTorch movie called.Powering the AI Revolution"who came out in 2024 year. This is a retrospective from the people who built PyTorch from the inside: Soumith Chintala (PyTorch co-creator at Meta/FAIR)Colleagues from Meta AI/FAIR (including Yann LeCun) and ecosystem partners.
- · #Engineering
Troubleshooting Interview (Category Engineering)
Troubleshooting Interview (Rubric Engineering ) Yesterday, for the first time in six months or more, I conducted a treadshooting interview for a SRE engineer. I used to be the leader of this hiring section, a lot. told about (Devops Conf) and even public interview Devoops Conf. But then I handed the section over to another leader, and I stayed in the interview pool, and I almost never got this kind of interview. But this week he flew in and I wanted to say no - I was too overwhelmed with other things and didn't want to waste time refreshing my memories.
- · #AI
The Future of General AI Agents: The Story of Manus AI - SuperAI Singapore 2025 (AI column)
The Future of General AI Agents: The Story of Manus AI - SuperAI Singapore 2025 (Rubric AI ) Looked at the old one. video Tao Cheung, co-founder Manus AI, shared how the company has gone. Of course, there is no final stage - the acquistion of the company banned in Russia Meta (Since the video has been over six months). In fact, Tao tells how the product went from a browser extension, an experiment with an AI browser, to a cloud agent that does things, not just answers questions.