It is amazing how gpt can just answer this question, when I've struggled with this for so long.

One of the reasons I've developed my own email system (annesque.com, under active development) is because email communication turns out to be a hard topic to tackle. But freedom of speech is also a very hard topic to handle, and perhaps the two go hand in hand.

Hello everyone. In this episode, I will walk you through a tiny feature implementation in a ruby on rails engine (aka gem or library). This is a part of the Annesque email suite - you can read more on the project homepage. 

A Drupal site consistently taking ~5 seconds to generate a page is almost always waiting on one of these:

Actually... it looks okay. Mobile slider works. A lot of time is spent not building but rather debugging. Between having an idea and having it work mechanically, there are many steps. Of course, the world is a very mechanical place. That's why we love and build motorcycles, because they are so mechanical, real and awesome.

I needed this for myself, I needed to refer to the theme, while it was no longer installed anywhere. You can take a look at the theme for yourself. WasyaCo offers customization of such a theme for your business.

Good software deserves good documentation. Great engineering isn't just about writing code. It's also about sharing their knowledge and making their expertise useful.

Revised and updated 2026-07-26. 

I have made the decision to use PHP as part of my overall stack, along with ruby, javascript, and python. The main reason is that there has been a lot of great software written in PHP, and I want to use it. However, after leaving the PHP world for Ruby, and then coming back to it, I see many annoying little things that bother me in PHP. In this article, I rant about some of them.