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Illya Starikov
Personal blog · starikov.coprogramminghardwareculture
Illya Starikov writes STAR🌻KOV, a personal blog at starikov.co about programming, hardware and culture. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Zero-Width Space-Place”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Illya Starikov ⭐ Ukraine-born, San Francisco-based software engineer writing about computers, mostly.
Most-linked posts?
- The Zero-Width Space-Place2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-27
What Hacker News says?
Submitted There's No Place Like $HOME: A 10 Journey of Vim, Then VS Code, and Back to Vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Four years of my CS degree, typeset in LaTeX (850 pages) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The iPhone Air was set up to fail, but it's still my favorite phone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitboard chess AI, 8051 Space Invaders, and 8 more projects from my CS degree as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted iPad is the best coding computer, which is why I always code on Mac as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-Width Space – The Sneaky Unicode Character as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Zero-Width Space-Place as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I reached typing 112 WPM and how you can too as a story · 1 points
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