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Dmitry Chestnykh ☮️
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Founder of codingrobots.com. Created iwl.me, Mémoires, BlogJet. Author of Password Authentication for Web & Mobile Apps.

📍 Montenegro
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A post on how I implemented typewriter sounds.
iwritelike.bsky.social I Write Like @iwritelike.bsky.social · 11d
"The first words I typed were not on a computer keyboard or a glass screen, but on an old mechanical typewriter."

About typewriter sounds in I Write Like:
blog.iwl.me/2025/12/13/t...

#writing #editing #app
A still-life photo focusing on a desk setup. In the foreground, a pair of white wireless headphones rests next to a clear glass mug containing a tea-colored liquid. The background is cluttered with items, including a tall green and white tumbler (possibly a Starbucks cup) on the left, candles, and what appears to be part of a plant. In the center-right, a silver MacBook Pro laptop is open, displaying text on its screen. The laptop is stacked on two books: one yellow and black titled "ABSOLUTE FREEBSD," and another red and black titled "THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FREEBSD OPERATING SYSTEM." Below the books is a black mechanical keyboard.
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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iwritelike.bsky.social
This is such an awesome new feature on I Write Like! I hate rewriting my numbers, and quotes used to be a separate stalling distraction. Not anymore!
Try it here: iwl.me/transform

#editing #writing #text
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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iwritelike.bsky.social
New versions of our I Write Like for Mac, iPhone and iPad are now available on the App Store.
apps.apple.com/app/iwl-smar...

#writing #app
A four-panel image showcasing a writing app called "A Case of Identity" available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Panel 1: Smarter writing - Focus on writing, then analyze, polish & perfect. Shows the app's main tools: Style analyzer, Markdown preview, Word count, Readability, and Edit with AI. Panel 2: Analyze your writing - Check which famous writer you write like with the iconic "I Write Like" style analyzer. Shows a screen where the analysis suggests the user writes like "Arthur Conan Doyle." Panel 3: Writer's Toolbox - The only writing app that gives you insight into your writing. Lists features like Keywords, Style analyzer, Sentence rank, Word frequency, Word count, Read aloud, Dictionary, Goals, Readability, Edit with AI, Preview, Links, Outline, Comments, and Export. Panel 4: Go all-in on Markdown - Live preview with themes. Export to Word, PDF or HTML. Shows a document titled "The Role of Urban Parks in Modern City Planning" with key insights and options for Markdown preview, Themes (Serif, Sans, Mono), and Synchronize scrolling.
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
Pirelli
"for all bicycle tires"
1960
Artist: Riccardo Manzi
Ad for bicycle tires featuring a cartoon line drawing of a man riding a bicycle; within the lines are people of all shapes and sizes, in the colors purple, green, blue, yellow, orange, and brown.
October 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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BTW, everyone should design interfaces in TextEdit, not Figma.
dchest.com Dmitry Chestnykh ☮️ @dchest.com · Oct 23
Horizontal buttons/links are superior to vertical: they use less space (if they fit on one line) because they don't need padding between them for clickability.
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Horizontal buttons/links are superior to vertical: they use less space (if they fit on one line) because they don't need padding between them for clickability.
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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This is a game changer in the named color technology! 🌈

With CSS5 color-mix() function, you can get a closer match to any sRGB color you want using only named colors.

Compare this beauty:
DarkSalmon 50%, BlanchedAlmond

to this modern horror:
oklch(0.8052 0.0723 48.25)
October 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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I still don't get why web devs use custom JS-based tooltips. Stick title="Tooltip text" into any element and it will show the native tooltip, after a proper timeout.
October 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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iwritelike.bsky.social
Let's see what happens when your writing goal is reached in I Write Like.

#WritingCommunity #WriteLife #Writing
October 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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iwritelike.bsky.social
I Write Like is the place to write with no distractions. Or to distract yourself in a creative way, by comparing your writing to famous authors, or by cutting adverbs out, quite literally.
A screenshot of I Write Like text editor showing the text of the message edited via one of the tools of the editor that make all adverbs look like they are oozing red paint on the screen.
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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ericlawrence.com
The Web is the platform you are looking for. Pass it on.
October 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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peergos.org
We've been using Ed25519 in browsers for over 10 years now (every identity and writer is an Ed25519 pair in Peergos), so we really appreciate this and how much work it has been. The size of nacl.js is 30KB so not a significant benefit, but the web-crypto version is 10x faster!
August 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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WebCrypto API doesn't have ML-KEM yet, but I already want to use it because scary ⚛️ quantum computers are coming and will break everrrrrything ☠️! So I made a small one-file WASM-based implementation with an API from the future that I can switch later to crypto.subtle. github.com/dchest/mlkem...
GitHub - dchest/mlkem-wasm: ML-KEM in WebAssembly
ML-KEM in WebAssembly. Contribute to dchest/mlkem-wasm development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
dchest.com
Fun fact:

Shift+Cmd+D is a shortcut to send email in Apple Mail.
It's also a shortcut to discard email in Gmail 🤦‍♂️

Don't ask how I know.
July 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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samwho.dev
I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high.

jsdate.wtf
new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
jsdate.wtf
July 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Fifteen years ago, I launched I Write Like — a playful website that tells you which famous author your writing resembles.

What started as a weekend experiment quickly went viral, with millions of people pasting in everything from essays to fan fiction to grocery lists.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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RACHMANIN(OFF|ON)
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June 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Wrote a post on how to store web app data in the system keychain. (Kinda)
dchest.com/2025/06/17/h...
How to store web app data in the system keychain - dchest.com Blog
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June 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I was craving for an open source Bloomberg Terminal font lookalike, but there was none, so here's my amateur attempt at creating one from Source Sans 3 (on the right).

Repo: github.com/dchest/bergoom
May 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I made a *very* dark mode for I Write Like. 😁

Ooze mode, inspired by Stephen King's On Writing, helps you REALLY spot those adverbs!
May 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Tabs save money!
THE USE OF TABS The majority of terminals being used on the SHARP APL system provide a tabbing feature which, if used properly, can save connect time costs by as much as 30%. These savings are most significant when printing columnar reports or plots. When tabs are in use, the typing element skips across the blank spaces at a much faster pace than if it were merely spacing one character at a time.
May 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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You don't need types if your program fits on one screen.
May 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I've released the IWL app for iPhone and iPad! apps.apple.com/app/iwl-smar...
‎IWL: Smarter Writing
‎IWL is a beautiful Markdown text editor designed to help you write with focus, powered by a suite of intelligent tools that elevate your writing to a professional level. Whether you’re a novelist, j...
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May 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/p...
15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
In November 2022, I opened issue 99108 on Python’s GitHub repository, arguing that after a recent CVE in its implementation of SHA3, Python should embrace verified code for all of its hash-related inf...
jonathan.protzenko.fr
April 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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eprint.ing.bot
An LLM Framework For Cryptography Over Chat Channels (Danilo Gligoroski, Mayank Raikwar, Sonu Kumar Jha) ia.cr/2025/661
Abstract. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed communication, yet their role in secure messaging remains underexplored, especially in surveillance-heavy environments. At the same time, many governments all over the world are proposing legislation to detect, backdoor, or even ban encrypted communication. That emphasizes the need for alternative ways to communicate securely and covertly over open channels. We propose a novel cryptographic embedding framework that enables covert Public Key or Symmetric Key encrypted communication over public chat channels with human-like produced texts. Some unique properties of our framework are: 1. It is LLM agnostic, i.e., it allows participants to use different local LLM models independently; 2. It is pre- or post-quantum agnostic; 3. It ensures indistinguishability from human-like chat-produced texts. Thus, it offers a viable alternative where traditional encryption is detectable and restricted.
April 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM