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Illya Starikov — software engineer. This is the workshop: ten years of dotfiles, tools, coursework, 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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os: macOS + Linux
editor: neovim · 52 plugins · ~150ms
dotfiles: 90.8K lines / 770 files
themes: 57 variants / 17 families
essays: 94
latest: 12 hours ago
theme: tokyonight/storm
built: 2026-07-19 10:45 UTC

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Dotfiles A decade of shell, tuned until one command themes every app at once. ★ 19Shellupdated 17 hours ago

Eclecta A digital broadsheet for the frontier — we read the firehose so you read what matters. Pythonupdated 12 hours ago

MCP Servers Two Model Context Protocol servers that hand Claude my task manager and my reading library. ★ 13TypeScriptupdated 2 months ago

Academia Four bound LaTeX volumes and a media showcase from the Missouri S&T years. ★ 164C++updated 2 months ago

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Eclecta A digital broadsheet for the frontier — we read the firehose so you read what matters. projectupdated 12 hours ago

Dotfiles A decade of shell, tuned until one command themes every app at once. projectupdated 17 hours ago

GitHub Profile A neofetch-style profile card that rebuilds itself every day with live stats. projectupdated 1 day ago

The Lifecycle of a Code Change AI writes most of my code now. Here's where I let it, and where I don't. essayupdated 4 days ago

The Commit Checklist The unglamorous gate between "works on my machine" and "someone else has to read this." essayupdated 4 days ago

Begin a Brag Doc Document the narrative before someone else drafts it. essayupdated 11 days ago

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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 4 days ago

The Commit Checklist The unglamorous gate between "works on my machine" and "someone else has to read this." AI 4 days ago

Begin a Brag Doc Document the narrative before someone else drafts it. Software Engineering 11 days ago