My name is Misha. Welcome to my site!
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Copy-paste on the command line
How to copy and paste on the command-line in macOS and Linux....
Solving Virginia Tech Regional Math Contest problems
Sharing my solutions to the Virginia Tech Regional Math Contest problems....
Nothing Gold Can Stay
A poem by Robert Frost...
Derivation and intuition behind the quadratic formula
Let’s look at how we can solve the quadratic equation without using the memorized formula, and then derive the quadratic formula itself from scratch using our method of solving the quadratic equation....
Writing math with Hugo
Evaluation of KaTeX and MathJax, along with client-side rendering as well as static (server-side) rendering, trade-offs and feasibility, and a comparison of rendering and maintainability of the various options....
Typography, fonts, and licenses
Typography, typefaces, fonts, and their various licenses....
Making of "running decade-old games in containers"
How I wrote the earlier post “running decade-old games in containers” and generated the incremental file diffs of the Dockerfile and runner.sh script....
Running decade-old games in containers
How I got decade-old (32-bit) games running in containers on 64-bit Linux, step-by-step, and what I learned along the way....