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About the guy who's doin' all the postin'

I'm Stas, a software practitioner and researcher. I'm interested in software technologies, programming languages, development methodologies, and basically all that's between.

I've had the opportunity to explore the software engineering domain from different angles throughout the past 15 years and thought it's time I shared some insights. Hopefully I'll get some new ones in the process. 

 If things pan out I'm definitely getting a German shepherd one day.

 But hey, enough about me.

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