I recently released a small Maven plugin that automatically converts ANTLR4 grammar
.g4 files into EBNF in LaTeX with naive-ebnf, and then into PDF. We use it for rendering the grammar of the EO language, see this image. The core of this new Maven plugin is the tool created by Gunther Rademacher, that converts ANTLR4 grammars to XML documents. The rest was easy. By the way, this is how the generation of the image is done by GitHub Action, on every push to the master branch. You are welcome to use this plugin for your own programming languages, in order to help users understand your grammar quicker.To all students, who read me: I published a short list of research topics that may be suitable for your diploma or course works. If you find one of them interesting, text me directly, I may help you do the research and may become your advisor.
Here is the first lecture of the course titled "Project Management Beyond Agile", for BSc students in Innopolis University: 88 minutes (about Integration Management).
И снова о политике, в этот раз на злобу дня: Турбулентность, Made in Ukraine (новый блог пост).
Here is the second lecture about project management in Innopolis University, this time about scope management, 89 minutes.
Just published a small blog post about career development, maybe you find it helpful: Five Ingredients of Tech Career.
Опубликовал первую лекцию из курса "Software Quality Metrics" для студентов ВШЭ (Москва, Россия), посвященную "Lines of Code": 84 минуты. В каждой следующей лекции мы будет отталкиваться от одной из метрик (всего их будет 24) и обсуждать качество программного кода вообще и методах его обеспечения.
I wrote a small blog post that may help those who write research papers: Related Work: A Critical Taxonomy of Prior Art. It explains the purpose of the "Related Work" section, gives a toy example, and suggests some additional readings that will definitely help understand the idea better.
Опубликовал вторую лекцию из курса "Software Quality Metrics" (ВШЭ, Москва), посвященную "Cyclomatic Complexity by Thomas J. McCabe" и сложности кода вообще: 79 минут. В ней также коснулись вопросов психологии программиста, который пишет сложно и этим очень гордится — я писал об этом ранее: The Better Architect You Are, The Simpler Your Diagrams (2015).
Только что выложил новую статью, с размышлениями об индивидуализме и коллективизме, а также о последствиях победы первого над вторым: Не такой как все! There is an English version too, translated by ChatGPT.
I just sent a newsletter to 4865 subscribers. I summarized my last-month content that they might be interested in reading and watching. A few years ago I was sending such newsletters every month, then I got lazy. Now I'm trying to get back on track, promising myself to truly send them every month. You may join the list of newsletter receivers, just fill out this small online form.
Началось голосование за премию HighLoad++ среди отечественных open source проектов, среди которых и наш EOLANG. Голосуйте скорее! :)
Опубликовал третью лекцию из курса Software Quality Metrics для студентов ВШЭ (Москва), на этот раз о метрике по имени Cognitive Complexity, которую всего несколько лет назад придумали в компании Sonar Source: 80 минут.
You know, there are a few very popular places in the Internet, that are curated aggregators of links, for example Hacker News and Reddit. Everyone can post a link to some blog post or a news article, letting the community upvote and discuss it. The most upvoted links stay at the top for some time, thus giving their authors additional attention and traffic to their websites. The key ingredient of success of such platforms is the cumulative opinion of thousands of people that up/down vote.
How about we replace all these people with ChatGPT and similar LLMs? We can build a similar aggregator, but instead of people — robots will upvote and discuss the links posted there. Moreover, how about we make robots post links too, by crawling Internet and finding most recently published blog posts and news? What do you think?
How about we replace all these people with ChatGPT and similar LLMs? We can build a similar aggregator, but instead of people — robots will upvote and discuss the links posted there. Moreover, how about we make robots post links too, by crawling Internet and finding most recently published blog posts and news? What do you think?
I just published the third lecture about Time Management, from the course "Project Management Beyond Agile" for Innopolis students: 82 minutes (with English subtitles). As all lectures in this course, this one is structured around eight questions where only one answer is correct.
The fourth lecture about Cost Management just published, from the "Project Management Beyond Agile" course in Innopolis University: 79 minutes. We not only discussed how money are supposed to be managed in a project, but also how to measure the value of a programmer in a project, in dollars.
Definitely worth watching this 2-hours dialogue between Joe Rogan and Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT), just published a few days ago. I enjoyed it. They talked about UBI, Superintelligent AI, Bitcoin, failure of FTX, corruption, society regulations, transhumanism, cancel culture, startups, testosterone drop, feminine men and violent women, conflict, ego, war, Twitter and hate speech, AGI, psychodelic retreats and LSD, fentanyl, virtual reality, religion, aliens and God. Surprisingly enough, I agree with them on most points.
While preparing the next PMBA lecture, I stumbled upon this blog post, which I wrote almost eight years ago: How Do You Punish Your Employees? (2016). It's still very relevant and thought provoking, I believe: a sarcastic view on management so many people practice these days. Moreover, the blog post has Russian and Chinese translations: по-русски + 中文 (thanks to ChatGPT).