Denis Shepelev

Denis Shepelev

Engineering across software and hardware: I design machines, equipment, and energy/automation systems, and build software in Node.js, Python, and C++. Sharing projects, notes, and practical insights.

Series

Short essays on mechanical and software engineering, programming languages, and craft.

Notes on projects, tools, and shipping software and mechanical design.

Latest writing

Notes on C++ ownership and lifetimes

Practical notes on expressing ownership and object lifetimes in modern C++ with smart pointers and references.

Building a fast static blog with Astro

Notes on building a fast, SEO-friendly static blog with Astro and Starlight, including content collections and Pagefind search.

Readable code over cleverness

A short essay on writing code that is easy to read, with small examples in TypeScript, Python, and C++.