https://mmapped.blog/ 2026-04-14T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/50-whispering-gallery.html

Why LLMs inspire me to write more.

2026-04-14T00:00:00Z 2026-04-14T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/49-kirk-scotty-spock.html

Vibe-specing from the chair.

2026-03-22T00:00:00Z 2026-03-22T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/48-the-third-hard-problem.html

It’s not off-by-one errors.

2026-02-28T00:00:00Z 2026-02-28T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/47-2025-retro.html

Reading too much and writing too little.

2026-01-19T00:00:00Z 2026-01-19T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/46-aoc-2025.html

My favorite puzzles from AoC 2025.

2025-12-27T00:00:00Z 2025-12-27T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/45-compilation-is-communication.html

An ode to M-x compile.

2025-10-13T00:00:00Z 2025-10-13T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/44-tag-based-logging.html

#tags #logs

2025-08-19T00:00:00Z 2025-08-19T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/43-stepanovs-biggest-blunder.html

How STL algorithms parallel the fundamental theorem of calculus.

2025-07-13T00:00:00Z 2025-07-13T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/42-parasites-found.html

Fighting mediocrity with generative AI.

2025-07-01T00:00:00Z 2025-07-01T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/41-box-combinators.html

The most visual way to print a table.

2025-06-01T00:00:00Z 2025-06-01T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/40-three-degress-of-validity.html

What does valid configuration share with facts and theorems?

2025-04-26T00:00:00Z 2025-04-26T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/39-3000-days-of-duolingo.html

Why eight years with the green owl is enough.

2025-04-14T00:00:00Z 2025-04-14T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/38-static-types-perfectionism.html

Scherzo in e-moll on programming and authenticity.

2025-04-01T00:00:00Z 2025-04-01T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/37-onnx-intro.html

A gentle introduction to the Open Neural Network eXchange format.

2025-02-17T00:00:00Z 2025-02-17T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/36-2024-retro.html

Looking back at the year 2024.

2025-01-20T00:00:00Z 2025-01-20T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/35-aoc-2024.html

Reflection on puzzles and OCaml.

2025-01-02T00:00:00Z 2025-01-03T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/34-square-joy-tile-crush.html

Exploding tiles in J.

2024-12-16T00:00:00Z 2024-12-16T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/33-transposing-tensor-files.html

Where does file metadata belong?

2024-11-22T00:00:00Z 2024-11-22T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/32-programming-avant-garde.html

Programmers and thinkers who inspire me.

2024-10-31T00:00:00Z 2024-10-31T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/31-effective-design-docs.html

An opinionated guide to writing software design docs.

2024-09-15T00:00:00Z 2024-09-16T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/30-transaction-models.html

Functional programming vs OOP, now on a blockchain.

2024-08-16T00:00:00Z 2024-08-16T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/29-plan-execute.html

A ubiquitous pattern you won’t find in your textbook.

2024-06-20T00:00:00Z 2024-06-20T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/28-enlightenmentware.html

Software that makes you a better programmer.

2024-05-20T00:00:00Z 2024-05-20T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/27-extending-https-outcalls.html

Making IC’s HTTPS outcalls feature more versatile.

2024-04-29T00:00:00Z 2024-04-29T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/26-good-names-form-galois-connections.html

A quest for defining what it means to name things well.

2024-04-01T00:00:00Z 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/25-domain-types.html

A guide to domain-specific types that make sense.

2024-02-26T00:00:00Z 2024-02-26T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/24-ocr.html

An overview of the Chainlink OCR protocol.

2024-01-30T00:00:00Z 2024-01-30T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/23-numeric-tower-fiasco.html

OOP inheritance had one job to do.

2023-11-22T00:00:00Z 2023-11-22T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/22-flat-in-order-trees.html

An efficient algorithm for incremental merkle trees updates.

2023-08-13T00:00:00Z 2023-11-26T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/21-machs-principle.html

Why is it so hard to change things?

2023-07-02T00:00:00Z 2023-07-02T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/20-candid-for-engineers.html

A practical guide to the world’s most advanced interface definition language.

2023-06-14T00:00:00Z 2023-06-22T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/19-eventlog.html

The storage scheme securing ckBTC assets.

2023-05-01T00:00:00Z 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/18-if-composers-were-hackers.html

What programming language would J.S. Bach use?

2023-04-01T00:00:00Z 2025-10-26T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/17-scaling-rust-builds-with-bazel.html

Why DFINITY builds Rust with Bazel.

2023-03-20T00:00:00Z 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/16-building-a-second-brain.html

A summary of the book by Tiago Forte.

2023-02-25T00:00:00Z 2023-02-25T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/15-when-rust-hurts.html

Why I am not enjoying programming in Rust.

2023-02-14T00:00:00Z 2023-02-16T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/14-stable-structures.html

An introduction to the stable-structures library.

2023-01-20T00:00:00Z 2023-02-04T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/13-icp-ledger.html

The design of the Internet Computer utility token treasury.

2022-12-19T00:00:00Z 2022-12-19T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/12-rust-error-handling.html

An optinionated guide to designing humane error types in Rust.

2022-11-15T00:00:00Z 2022-11-16T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/11-ii-stable-memory.html

How the Internet Identity canister uses its stable memory to achieve safe upgrades.

2022-10-12T00:00:00Z 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/10-payment-flows.html

Payment flows for fungible tokens on the Internet Computer.

2022-09-21T00:00:00Z 2022-09-21T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/09-fungible-tokens-101.html

An introduction to fungible tokens and ledgers.

2022-08-05T00:00:00Z 2022-08-05T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/08-ic-xnet.html

A deep dive into the protocol that IC subnets communicate over.

2022-07-01T00:00:00Z 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/07-square-joy-pre-order.html

Restoring a binary tree from its pre-order traversal.

2022-06-05T00:00:00Z 2022-06-05T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/06-ic-orthogonal-persistence.html

The Internet Computer orthogonal persistence feature and the data structure powering that feature.

2022-04-27T00:00:00Z 2022-04-27T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/05-debug-like-feynman.html

Apply scientific method in everyday software engineering.

2022-04-01T00:00:00Z 2024-09-26T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/04-square-joy-trapped-rain-water.html

Solving the trapped rainwater problem in J.

2022-02-15T00:00:00Z 2024-03-03T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/03-rust-packages-crates-modules.html

Lessons learned from scaling a Rust code base.

2022-01-20T00:00:00Z 2023-06-16T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/02-ic-state-machine-replication.html

How the Internet Computer represents and transfers states.

2021-12-01T00:00:00Z 2025-12-08T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn https://mmapped.blog/posts/01-effective-rust-canisters.html

A compilation of useful patterns for developing IC canisters in Rust.

2021-10-25T00:00:00Z 2022-10-16T00:00:00Z Roman Kashitsyn