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I encountered an interesting gmail glitch yesterday. I have two email accounts: one personal and one for work. A few weeks ago I was using Thunderbird for both, but after a few cases when I was sending emails from the corporate account and they actually got sent from personal…

I’m watching Stargate (nostalgia) and just couldn’t resist …

Ever used default_scope in RoR? Ever regretted you had ever read about this feature after you wrote tons of code and later realized you can’t access the records you need in a convenient way when necessary? Try googling “how to override default_scope” and you will find tons of advices how…

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I’m sitting here at the Rails conference (has nothing to do with trains) and watching at the presenter struggling with the equipment. This leaves me couple minutes to start this post about how to do great presentations and not to do bad ones.

Just watch it. Then read under the cut line.

I just published a new video and a new article about “The most hacked router in the world ever” project. The idea behind this project is obviously to hack router to the extreme. I searched the Internet, found all known hacks about routers, added a few I never seen implemented…

Recently I’ve got a worldlock cable lock for my bike. Skimming thru the guide pictures included with the lock I tried to understand how do I open it for the first time and didn’t find anything saying “default password” in big bold red font. Quick google search also gave…

Robotics part of http://andrey.mikhalchuk.com had been moved to http://robostuff.com

If you’re flying beginners’ coax helicopters like Lama v4 you probably have heard about those undestructable Airy Harden Blades. Unfortunately all information about the blades in the internet is limited to a very impressive video and a review from a guy who seemed to be somewhat interested in positive test…

When I moved into a new house a few months ago I decided to start life in the new place with completely new energy saving policy and replaced 90% of bulbs in the house with those spiral energy saving light bulbs you see advertised on every corner in every…

It appeared that some DNS servers keep old information about my domain and redirecting some users to the old server. So some comments go to the new server and some go to the old one. I plan to merge them later this week. If you don’t see your comments posted…