The draft of Junior Objects is finished and sent to 114 (!) volunteers with a request to review it and criticize. They will get back to me before the end of May and the book will be published in June (unless they totally trash it and I will have to re-write most of it from scratch, which happened to Code Ahead some time ago). By the way, my previous books were reviewed by much smaller groups of reviewers. 114 is an extremely large number.

A new post on my blog: EO the Career Killer. It attempts to answer a very popular question: why learning Elegant Objects if almost nobody in the industry uses this paradigm? Read it.

A movie about love you must see, no matter how hurtful it will be: DAU. Natasha (2020) by Ilya Khrzhanovsky and Ekaterina Oertel.

A new Sunday Twitter poll for you. Please, vote and then read this blog post: Are You a Hacker or a Designer? (2014)

Как «есть вилкой и ножом» в эпоху Remote Work. Говорим о том как себя вести, про цифровой этикет с Егором Бугаенко в 220 выпуске The Art Of Programming http://bit.ly/TAOP220share

A new post on my blog, about object oriented programming: Veil Objects to Replace DTOs. It is about a new Ruby gem that helps you decorate objects on-fly to modify their behavior with memoization functionality.

Saul Goodman (by Bob Odenkirk) teaches us how you respond to a job offer. Better Call Saul, Season 5 (2020) is as good as all previous four: moral principles against ambition, guess who wins?!

I've got a new Sunday Twitter poll for you. Please, vote and then read this blog post: Code For the User, Not for Yourself (2015).

It's time to announce a great event to be held in a few months (if COVID will not stop us): KaiCode. It is the first in its kind open gathering of open source projects, sponsored by Huawei. You can submit your open source project, get a free pass, present the project there, and win $5,000. It doesn't matter where you are from, we will pay for your travel if your project is selected.

You may also want to join us here: @kaicode

Мой первый пост на Хабр: Каков ты, русский опен сорс? (this is a blog post about KaiCode and my take on Russian open source market)

Join us, if you are planning to submit your open source project or attend to see presentations and join a free party: @kaicode

I just published a new article at Blog@CACM to summarize my take on current COVID-driven work-from-home situation: https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/245277-the-remote-revolution-has-to-be-driven-by-output-not-salaries/fulltext

A few months a friend of mine told me that sugar was a strong addictive drug, even stronger than cocaine. He said that if I stop eating it I will have serious issues with my health, my body, my mood. I wouldn't be able to sleep, to think, and to work. Moreover, he told me that this is what happened to him when he tried to stop eating sugar: he could survive for only a week. A month ago I decided to challenge this belief and stopped eating any sugar: no cakes, no fruits, no honey, not even sweet bread. Nothing! I was surprised that I felt no difference whatsoever. No trouble with health, mood, or brain activity. By the way, I was a big cookie/fruit eater my whole life. It's officially a month now (I started on the 1st of May). So, is it a lie that sugar is a drug and causes addiction? It seems it is.

Новая статья на моем политическом блоге: https://ru.yegor256.com/2020-06-12-protesters.html

You many now subscribe to a new channel we just created to keep you informed about our open source supporting initiative: @kaicode (the content will mostly be educational).

Watch The Irishman (2019) by Martin Scorsese... a few times. I think I know this scene already down to every f...ng word. Not surprisingly, by the way, the movie is about tolerance, or I got the key message wrong?

Watch this movie and you will never want to have sex again: The Morning Show (2019) by Jay Carson and Kerry Ehrin. I still don’t understand the substance of the problem they are fighting with through long ten episodes, but the plot is catchy and the ending is expectantly tears-breaking.

Please participate in this new Sunday Twitter poll, this time about OOP.

Big news! My 5th book Junior Objects is published. You can buy it on Amazon for just $40.96. It is a crash course for junior programmers, on computing, software engineering, and object-oriented paradigm. I planned to make it all about OOP, but it became a much wider introduction to everything a newbie needs to know about coding. You may consider it a prequel to Elegant Objects. It was reviewed by 25 volunteers (the highest number so far among all other books of mine).