M191: The best bug report is the one that represents the simplest possible scenario where the bug shows up. Most bug reports are not like that. I suggest rejecting them and letting their authors simplify them. Earlier explained in the blog post, but this time you can watch it.

Новый выпуск черно белого айти, N14 (пока еще на YouTube).

M192: When you interview each new candidate, your opinion will most likely be pretty subjective. I suggest you try to find a way to structure it with some generic approach, which you will apply to all interviews. This will help you not miss important information and always have a good explanation for your decisions. Watch it.

ICCQ 2022 will be streamed live this Saturday at 10am in YouTube! Click here to add this event to your Google Calendar, to not miss it. Click here to start watching. Don't miss it, we will have three interesting papers presented (from China, Russia, and USA), and a keynote talk from Hong Kong.

Вот видео: https://youtu.be/iJcCkHw2BDY (2 часа)

ICCQ'22 conference starts in 30 minutes, LIVE streaming here: https://youtu.be/SkXat1qi6X4

I just finished 10-days Vipassana course. It’s basically ten hours of meditation every day plus full silence, wake up at 4am, two meals a day, total gender segregation, and no access to any digital communication devices. Did I like it? Very much. In one of the next videos I will share more details of my experience. Now I’m back to work. Hope you missed me :)

Our second attempt to make a computer science conference in Russia with the highest possible quality standards in mind was, I believe, a success: ICCQ'22 proceedings were published by IEEE Xplore, four presentations are on YouTube, 60% of papers were rejected by a Program Committee of 23 people from 10+ countries. Big thanks to our sponsors, who keep helping us make ICCQ: Innopolis University, HSE University, Bauman MSTU, Yandex, Huawei, Kaspersky, and BNP Paribas.

If you are a researcher, consider ICCQ as your next year publishing venue. Call For Papers will be announced in July. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter.

По просьбам айти-трудящихся мы сделали новую группу в Telegram, где будут обсуждаться исключительно вопросы менеджмента айти команд и исключительно по-русски: как планировать, как оценивать, как обеспечивать качество, как поощрять и наказывать, как подбирать и увольнять программистов, и так далее. Присоединяйтесь: @codeahead

M194: How much time a programmer should spend daily on work? A few hours. What else one has to do during the day? Programming. How do these two statements match? I believe, there is no contradiction. One thing is work, another one is programming for fun. Keep a balance. Watch it.

Я буду выступать на конференции ЦИПР в Нижнем Новгороде (Россия) 30-го мая и 1-го июня. Будет два доклада: один для всех, второй для студентов. Оба доклада будут про роботов, которые уже помогают или будут скоро помогать программистам в разработке программного обеспечения. Если нужна контрамарка, пишите в личку. Все доклады будут позже доступны в видео формате у меня на YouTube.

M195: Static and dynamic analyzer, style checkers, quality control tools find bugs in the code we programmers write. However, the real bugs are in ourselves: we make the mistakes, we introduce software defect. Usually, we make them thanks to our lack of knowledge, neglect, or laziness. How about we create a tool for checking us? Watch it.

N15, новый черно-белый выпуск про Agile, безработицу, русских хакеров и немного о политике.

I just released a new version 1.2 of jcabi-manifests, a very simple library for reading MANIFEST.MF files avaiable in classpath. The library is 10 years old! I just found our that there are 342 projects which are using it. It's a pretty big number. I haven't seen a single open source project of mine to be so actively used by other projects. Open source is like wine — the older, the better :)

Please, vote in this tweet. The result of the poll will illustrate this blog post: Bugs Occam's Razor. Some time ago, maybe you remember, we used to do such polls every Sunday. Let's get this tradition back.

Нам нужно больше таких фильмов. Пусть пока они не Голливуд, но ценности транслируют правильные. Штрафник (2016).

We released a new version 1.20 of Takes, a true object-oriented Java web framework, which is already six years old and is being actively developed and supported. The beauty of this framework is that it doesn't have any static methods inside, doesn't use annotations, doesn't use reflection, never return NULL, and so on. It's designed with the best object-oriented principles in mind. You may want to watch this lecture, where the principles of Takes are explained.

As usual, a new GitHub star from you will be much appreciated :)

M196: A large company is a tough place for a creative person, especially if one used to be a startup founder. However, it's still possible to survive, if you ignore the bad parts and focus on what an enterprise can give to you. Watch it.