Michał M. Sapka
Michał M. Sapka
Michał M. Sapka
Greetings, wanderer! You've reached my personal homepage. Let me introduce myself: I'm Michał, a middle-aged nerd from southern Poland who can't grow a beard to save his life. Beardlessness is a problem amongst older nerd crowds, so instead I have an old school, static website. The maximize the street cred, this site is fully self-hosted and self-built In fact, you are talking directly to my home server located in the living room. The HTML you are processing is generated by my custom Python SSR and is written in Vim.
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We often credit Facebook and Twitter for all the harms of the world, but the more I think about it, the less I agree. Those were not the culprit, they only took full advantage of societal changes. The IRC and bulletin board days were...
Anyone is capable of creating pictures more aesthetically pleasing than any renaissance artist. Cameras made sure of that. This led to the many attempts to redefine what art is, as it could no longer be defined as just a "pretty...
I'd open my RSS reader after a few days away and find a hundred unread posts. I'd mark them all as read. That was my reading habit. After reading Jon's post about saying goodbye to RSS, it stayed with me. Someone's writings had become...
I don't subscribe to any streaming service partially because I don't want to get hooked to any TV series. I've heard great things about the Apple TV offering, so I recently watched two series: Pluribus and Murderbot. Out of nowhere,...
I had a simple plan: lay back and read Proust. Just like most plans, this one went out the window before it started. The push of Dune is just too strong to hold. Chronicles of Dune is 6 books, but it's also often separated into two...
I wanted to put my regained attention span to a test: can I, once again, watch complex films? All three Godfather films, played night after night looked like the perfect choice. Those are the most famous films of all time, often called...
The story of Lord of the Flies is known to almost anyone, present company excluded. I may have seen the movie decades ago, but the memory was hazy. There were some kids, some island, and something bad happens. I was half-right. Lord of...
Hello and welcome to the new iteration of this site. Let's kick things off with two SciFi books I've read recently. Dangerous Planet I came to this collection with zero expectations. Heh, Soviet short stories? What will they do? Sell...
How I try not to inject binge-watching virus into The Kid. Surprised that I hate even more things about the current thing? Well. I hate binge-watching. For sure, I've been there. 3 episodes in a raw? I have been there. An hour later in...
How I try not to inject binge-watching virus into The Kid Surprised that I hate even more things about the current thing? Well. I hate binge-watching. For sure, I've been there. 3 episodes in a raw? I have been there. An hour later in...
It's been 4 months since I've made a break with Trek. Heck, it's final time to return! This marks it the first episode I've seen in my post-smartphone era, and it shows. We start with most of the Borg-children leaving the crew. It's the...
I really want to get to know and to like Zelazny's works. So, when I found Dilvish in the Little Library, I was excited. So, how was it? Not great, Bob. Not great. Dilvish, after fight with Jelerak, is locked in hell. Now he has escaped...
I really want to get to know, and to like, Zelazny's works. So, when I found Dilvish in the Little Library, I was excited. So, how was it? Not great, Bob. Not great. Dilvish, after a fight with Jelerak, is locked in hell. Now he has...
After the (quite terrible) Black Tulip I was ready for more Dumas. Therefore: Three Musketeers. It's (as I've been told) more accessible than Count de Monte Christo . As a bonus: I've seen the movies a few decades ago, but I don't...
Let's try something new - quarterly update. I found great joy from reading ones from マリウス , so why not? I don't want it to be a week-note type of list, as prose is from humans and lists are from machines. I want such updates (name may be...