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Illya Starikov — software engineer

The workshop: ten years of dotfiles, tools, and essays — documented like it matters.

Everything I've built, kept like a wiki and wired to grow on its own — pulled from live repositories and the dotfiles theme engine at every build.

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illya@starikov.io

os: macOS + Linux
editor: neovim · 52 plugins · ~150ms
dotfiles: 116.8K lines / 770 files
themes: 57 variants / 17 families
essays: 94
latest: 4 minutes ago
theme: tokyonight/storm
built: 2026-08-27 19:56 UTC

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Dotfiles A decade of shell, tuned until one command themes every app at once. ★ 20Shellupdated 1 month ago

Eclecta A digital broadsheet for the frontier — we read the firehose so you read what matters. ★ 1Pythonupdated 16 minutes ago

MCP Servers Two Model Context Protocol servers that hand Claude my task manager and my reading library. ★ 19TypeScriptupdated 3 months ago

Academia Four bound LaTeX volumes and a media showcase from the Missouri S&T years. ★ 164C++updated 3 months ago

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GitHub Profile A neofetch-style profile card that rebuilds itself every day with live stats. projectupdated 4 minutes ago

Résumé Four LaTeX-built PDFs — résumé and CV, each in light and dark — from a private typesetting engine. projectupdated 2 months ago

pocketcasts-reset Unfollow every podcast in your Pocket Casts account, to start fresh. toolupdated 2 months ago

Artificial A shelf of AI and optimization algorithms — chess, evolution, satisfiability, search. projectupdated 3 months ago

latest essays

The Lifecycle of a Code Change AI writes most of my code now. Here's where I let it, and where I don't. AI 1 month ago

The Commit Checklist The unglamorous gate between "works on my machine" and "someone else has to read this." AI 1 month ago

Begin a Brag Doc Document the narrative before someone else drafts it. Software Engineering 1 month ago