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A compact, current recipe for adding a swap file on Ubuntu: create the file, protect permissions, enable it, persist it in fstab, verify it, and know how to roll it back.

A small, current Git setup: identity, default branch name, editor, credential helper, and a few aliases that make day-to-day work less noisy.

A short practical guide to ~/.ssh/config: create readable SSH aliases, pin the right user, port, and key, verify the final config, and avoid common agent-forwarding mistakes.

I became acquainted with Glen Cook quite a long time ago, but, as it turned out, through the back gate: I swallowed his entire series about detective Garrett and was very pleased with it.

It is impossible to pass by this book if you are interested in evolutionary biology. And although science has moved far ahead since those distant days, it is interesting to learn where thinking in this field began.

Many years have passed since the time when I happily spent my leisure time fussing with insects during long summer school vacations.

A logical question may arise for a person of our time looking deep into the centuries: why did civilizations develop exactly this way, and not otherwise?

A sequel to the wonderful book The Selfish Gene, which tells of the distant influence genes have on our world: it is far from exhausted by the properties of organisms themselves.

A rare specimen of damn strong science fiction, without the slightest bows toward adventure literature.

At school, geometric theorems absolutely would not yield to me. It was simply beyond my strength to memorize, step by step, a complicated sequence of actions.