Hi, I'm Illya Starikov.

I've used computers since I was four. I didn't know they were the future. I just loved what they let me do. When I started programming in my late teens, I could finally make anything I wanted. In 2014, I spun up a server and started writing on the internet.

What you'll find here is the sum of those years. The best way I know to learn something is to write it down, so I do. I write slowly, seldom more than once a week, and only when it's good. Mostly computer science, technology, AI, and mathematics.

My interests are simple: a good book, a warm cup of tea, somewhere new. I spend my time with my partner Taylor 🐝 and our cats Zuko 🐈, Bodie 🐈, and Mallory 🐈‍⬛.