I'm Max Zhuk
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🍒 Senior Software Engineer and a tech writer
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🏆 My favorite languages are 🐘 php, 🦀 rust, typescript and sql
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🌱 My web site: zhukmax.com
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🧑🏼💻 I have the blogs:
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I like read 📖 books 📚 and travels
🦉 My Literary Journey
- "Metro 2033" - Dmitry Glukhovsky
- "The Grapes of Wrath" - John Steinbeck
- "The Seven Who Were Hanged" - Leonid Andreyev
- "The Red Laugh" - Leonid Andreyev
- "Judas Iscariot" - Leonid Andreyev
- "How to Manage Your Slaves" - Marcus Sidonius Falx
- "Last Love in Constantinople" - Milorad Pavić
- "Fantômas" - Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre
- "The Devil’s Aspect" - Craig Russell
- "Egyptian Myths" - A. N. Nikolaeva
- "A Clash of Kings" - George R. R. Martin
- "The Magic Ring" - Andrei Platonov
- "The Miserly Knight" - Alexander Pushkin
- "The Bailiff" - Ivan Turgenev
- "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus" - Mary Shelley
- "The Settlement" - Kir Bulychev
- "The Fatal Mistake of Church Musicians" - Thomas Hardy
- "The Capture of the Redoubt" - Prosper Mérimée
- "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" - Milan Kundera
- "Under the Deck Awnings" - Jack London
- "The Innocence of Father Brown" - G. K. Chesterton
- "Tsar Fish" - Viktor Astafyev
- "Falling Old Women" - Daniil Kharms
- "Chang’s Dreams" - Ivan Bunin
- "Old Woman Izergil" - Maxim Gorky
- "The Frogling" - Edgar Allan Poe
- "The War of the Worlds" - H. G. Wells
- "Hamlet" - William Shakespeare
- "Poor Liza" - Nikolay Karamzin
- "Dwarf Nose" - Wilhelm Hauff
- "The Devil and the Deep Sea" - Rudyard Kipling
- "The Colour of Magic" - Terry Pratchett
- "The Pianist" - Alexander Kuprin
- "Caught Red-Handed" - Charles Dickens
- "The Emerald" - Alexander Kuprin
- "Dialogue About Sand" - Shūgorō Yamamoto
- "At the Bottom" - Maxim Gorky
- "Twelve" - Alexander Blok
- "Oblomov" - Ivan Goncharov
- "The Trial of Elizabeth Cree" - Peter Ackroyd
- "Lord of the Flies" - William Golding
- "The Kremlin School of Negotiation" - Igor Ryzov
- "Call and Come Over" - Anatoly Aleksin
- "Mtsyri" - Mikhail Lermontov
- "Vamireh" - J.-H. Rosny Aîné
- "The Cave Lion" - J.-H. Rosny Aîné
- "The Quest for Fire" - J.-H. Rosny Aîné
- "Ward No. 6" - Anton Chekhov
- "The Last Inch" - James Aldridge
- "Vasyutka’s Lake" - Viktor Astafyev
- "Nevsky Prospect" - Nikolai Gogol
- "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar" - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- "After the Ball" - Leo Tolstoy
- "The Theory of Castes and Roles" - Alex Krol
- "In Bad Company" - Vladimir Korolenko
- "Man and Snake" - Ambrose Bierce
- "Son of Tarzan" - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- "Tarzan and His Beasts" - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- "Return to the Jungle" - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- "The House Where Hearts Break" - George Bernard Shaw
- "How a Peasant Fed Two Generals" - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
- "A Game of Thrones" - George R. R. Martin
- "Leviticus" - Prophet Moses
- "The Time Machine" - H. G. Wells
- "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century" - George Friedman
- "Fair Margaret" - H. Rider Haggard
- "The Satanic Bible" - Anton Szandor LaVey
- "The Revolt of the Angels" - Anatole France
- "The Bronze Horseman" - Alexander Pushkin
- "The Maze Runner" - James Dashner
- "Dubrovsky" - Alexander Pushkin
- "Montezuma’s Daughter" - H. Rider Haggard
- "Bast Shoes" - Ivan Bunin
- "Russian Granny" - Vladimir Sorokin
- "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" - Patrick Süskind
- "Twilight" - Dmitry Glukhovsky
- "A Hero of Our Time" - Mikhail Lermontov
- "Moscow to the End of the Line" - Venedikt Erofeev
- "Tarzan of the Apes" - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- "The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea" - James Fenimore Cooper
- "One Day" - David Nicholls
- "The Master and Margarita" - Mikhail Bulgakov
- "Autobiography" - Branislav Nušić
- "The Twelve Chairs" - Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
- "Don Quixote" - Miguel de Cervantes
- "Exodus" - Prophet Moses
- "Christmas Poems" - Joseph Brodsky
- "Dictators of Deception" - Daniel Treisman, Sergey Guriev
- "My Pushkin" - Marina Tsvetaeva
- "Project Hail Mary" - Andy Weir
- "Childhood" - Leo Tolstoy
- "Under the Dome: Sixth Sense" - Stephen King
- "Under the Dome: Falling Pink Stars" - Stephen King
- "The Man in the Iron Mask" - Alexandre Dumas
- "Mustang-Pacer" - Ernest Seton-Thompson
- "Omon Ra" - Victor Pelevin
- "The Adventures of Krosh" - Anatoly Rybakov
- "The Kindly Ones" - Jonathan Littell
- "Lolita" - Vladimir Nabokov
- "How to Live Without Working?" - Pierre Wagonsky
- "Childhood" - Maxim Gorky
- "The Three Musketeers" - Alexandre Dumas
- "Heart of a Dog" - Mikhail Bulgakov
- "Planet of the People" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- "The Headless Horseman" - Mayne Reid
- "White Fang" - Jack London
- "The Man Who Laughs" - Victor Hugo
- "The Meshchora Side" - Konstantin Paustovsky
- "Ionych" - Anton Chekhov
- "The Black Monk" - Anton Chekhov
- "The Adventures of Kalle Blomkvist" - Astrid Lindgren
- "Numbers" - Ivan Bunin
- "The Lady with the Dog" - Anton Chekhov
- "Pepper, Wine, and Wool" - Carlo M. Cipolla
- "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" - Carlo M. Cipolla
- "Melancholy" - Anton Chekhov
- "The Ninny" - Anton Chekhov
- "The Boy in the White Shirt" - Viktor Astafyev
- "Who Can Live Well in Russia" - Nikolay Nekrasov
- "Tamango" - Prosper Mérimée
- "The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde
- "The Singers" - Ivan Turgenev
- "Vasily Tyorkin" - Alexander Tvardovsky
- "The Gold Bug" - Edgar Allan Poe
- "The Purloined Letter" - Edgar Allan Poe
- "Hadji Murat" - Leo Tolstoy
- "Woe from Wit" - Alexander Griboyedov
- "Spanish Witches" - Prosper Mérimée
- "King Solomon’s Mines" - H. Rider Haggard
- "The Dunce" - Denis Fonvizin
- "Total Recall" - Arnold Schwarzenegger
- "Makar Chudra" - Maxim Gorky
- "The Ransom of Red Chief" - O. Henry
- "The Photograph Where I’m Not" - Viktor Astafyev
- "Medical History" - Mikhail Zoshchenko
- "The Coward" - Guy de Maupassant
- "Gulliver in Lilliput" - Jonathan Swift
- "The Honest Thief" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "The Captain’s Daughter" - Alexander Pushkin
- "Lefty" - Nikolai Leskov
- "Rip Van Winkle" - Washington Irving
- "Svetlana" - Vasily Zhukovsky
- "The Gentleman from San Francisco" - Ivan Bunin
- "The Oddball from Class 6B" - Vladimir Zheleznikov
- "Mrs. Korner Pays Up" - Jerome K. Jerome
- "Simon" - Narine Abgaryan
- "The Marriage" - Nikolai Gogol
- "The Queen of Spades" - Alexander Pushkin
- "Vacancy" - Keith Laumer
- "Diaboliad" - Mikhail Bulgakov
- "Defenseless Creature" - Anton Chekhov
- "Alice" - Christina Henry
- "Genesis" - Prophet Moses
- "All Quiet on the Western Front" - Erich Maria Remarque
- "A Treatise on the History of Religions" - Mircea Eliade
- "The White Bird" - Sholem Aleichem
- "A Russian in Europe" - Arkady Averchenko
- "The Old Man and the Sea" - Ernest Hemingway
- "In a Beautiful and Furious World" - Andrei Platonov
- "Belated Flowers" - Anton Chekhov
- "Mein Kampf" - Adolf Hitler
- "The Smell of Thought" - Robert Sheckley
- "A Tale of the Sea" - Fazil Iskander
- "Cold Autumn" - Ivan Bunin
- "The Wig-Maker" - Nikolai Leskov
- "Fat and Thin" - Anton Chekhov
- "Three Rubles" - Ivan Bunin
- "Robinson Crusoe" - Daniel Defoe
- "Breakfast" - W. Somerset Maugham
- "Pines" - Ivan Bunin
- "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" - Richard Bach
- "The Master of Ballantrae" - Robert Louis Stevenson
- "By the Sea" - Anna Akhmatova
- "Legends and Myths of Ancient Greece" - Nikolay Kuhn
- "Mother of Monsters" - Guy de Maupassant
- "The Sleeping Princess" - Vasily Zhukovsky
- "Resurrection of All the Dead" - Leonid Andreyev
- "Agafya" - Anton Chekhov
- "The Overcoat" - Nikolai Gogol
- "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "The Half-Hour Theory" - David Abramson
- "The Ghost Story" - James Fenimore Cooper
- "The Final Test" - Robert Sheckley
- "The Nightingale and the Rose" - Oscar Wilde
- "Great Travelers" - Mikhail Zoshchenko
- "On the Benefits of Alcoholism" - Mikhail Bulgakov
- "I Am the Door" - Stephen King
- "Neighbors" - Anton Chekhov
- "Mumu" - Ivan Turgenev
- "Treasure Island" - Robert Louis Stevenson
- "Taras Bulba" - Nikolai Gogol
- "Scarlet Sails" - Alexander Grin
- "The Belkin Tales" - Alexander Pushkin
- "The Last of the Mohicans" - James Fenimore Cooper
- "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" - David D. Burns
- "Khor and Kalinych" - Ivan Turgenev
- "Where the Paths Diverge" - Jack London
- "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" - Nikolai Gogol
- "The Eve of St. John" - Nikolai Gogol
- "Satanism for the Intelligentsia: Religion Without God" - Andrey Kuraev
- "The Sentry" - Nikolai Leskov
- "The Oval Portrait" - Edgar Allan Poe
- "The Cat That Walked by Herself" - Rudyard Kipling
- "May Night, or The Drowned Maiden" - Nikolai Gogol
- "The Wonderful Doctor" - Alexander Kuprin
- "A Christmas Adventure" - Agatha Christie
- "Aristotle" - Paul Strathern
- "Christmas" - Vladimir Nabokov
- "A Christmas Carol" - Charles Dickens
- "Bicentennial Man" - Isaac Asimov
- "Peasant Women" - Anton Chekhov
- "Guaranteed Pleasure" - Isaac Asimov
- "The Man in the High Castle" - Philip K. Dick
- "The Suitcase" - Sergei Dovlatov
- "War and the Bible" - Saint Nicholas of Serbia
- "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- "There Will Come Soft Rains" - Ray Bradbury
- "Beasts in the Pit" - Russian Folk Tale
- "The Turkish Gambit" - Boris Akunin
- "Azazel" - Boris Akunin
- "Day of the Oprichnik" - Vladimir Sorokin
- "The Good Soldier Švejk" - Jaroslav Hašek
- "Go to the Ant" - John Wyndham
- "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" - J.R.R. Tolkien
- "The Twelfth Statue" - Stanley Ellin
- "ZOV 56" - Pavel Filatyev
- "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" - J.R.R. Tolkien
- "The Man in the Case" - Anton Chekhov
- "About Love" - Anton Chekhov
- "Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns" - Gitta Jacob
- "Tales for Idiots" - Boris Akunin
- "And Then There Were None" - Agatha Christie
- "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" - J.R.R. Tolkien
- "A Brief History of Time" - Stephen Hawking
- "Monkey King: Journey to the West" - Wu Cheng’en
- "Post. Part 2" - Dmitry Glukhovsky
- "Post" - Dmitry Glukhovsky
- "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" - Suzanne Collins
- "Mockingjay" - Suzanne Collins
- "We'll Defeat Barmaley" - Korney Chukovsky
- "Catching Fire" - Suzanne Collins
- "The Hunger Games" - Suzanne Collins
- "The Richest Man in Babylon" - George S. Clason
- "The Sorcerer Ignat and the People" - Victor Pelevin
- "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry" - Fredrik Backman
- "Machiavelli" - Paul Strathern
- "Man’s Search for Meaning" - Viktor E. Frankl
- "Around the World in Eighty Days" - Jules Verne
- "Vlad III Dracula" - A. Kurilko
- "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- "Paris in the Twentieth Century" - Jules Verne
- "Dune" - Frank Herbert
- "No One Writes to the Colonel" - Gabriel García Márquez
- "Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ" - Daniel Goleman
- "The Mysterious Island" - Jules Verne
- "The Tale of the Origin of Man" - Alexander Men
- "The Templars and Other Secret Societies of the Middle Ages" - Thomas Keightley
- "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court" - Mark Twain
- "The Love for Three Oranges" - Leonid Filatov
- "The Cherry Orchard" - Anton Chekhov
- "Living Space" - Isaac Asimov
- "The Nose" - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- "Kurt Cobain" - A. Kurilko
- "Ariadne" - Anton Chekhov
- "The Rose of Jericho" - Ivan Bunin
- "The Government Inspector" - Nikolai Gogol
- "The Triumph of Diplomacy" - Arthur Conan Doyle
- "15 Steps Away from Panic and Fear" - I. Kachay, P. Fedorenko
- "Venerable Paisios of Mount Athos" - [Author not specified]
- "The Fiery God of the Marrans" - Alexander Volkov
- "The Culture Map" - Erin Meyer
- "The Poison Belt" - Arthur Conan Doyle
- "Anxious People" - Fredrik Backman
- "Morphology of the Folktale" - Vladimir Propp
- "Journey to the Center of the Earth" - Jules Verne
- "Factfulness" - Hans Rosling
- "Gelsomino in the Land of Liars" - Gianni Rodari
- "The Lost World" - Arthur Conan Doyle
- "Reinventing Organizations" - Frédéric Laloux
- "F**k You Money" - Babaykin
- "A Dog Called Money" - Bodo Schäfer
- "Monday Begins on Saturday" - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- "Retire at 35" - Babaykin
- "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" - J.R.R. Tolkien
- "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" - Gaston Leroux
- "Seven Underground Kings" - Alexander Volkov
- "Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers" - Alexander Volkov
- "The Wizard of the Emerald City" - Alexander Volkov
- "Happiness in Tough Times" - Andrew Matthews
- "Paper Towns" - John Green
- "Sonnets" - William Shakespeare
- "On the Country and the World" - Andrei Sakharov
- "The Man's Rules" - Mark Manson
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" - Richard Feynman
- "Are the Rich Happy?" - Stephen Leacock
- "Poems" - Joseph Brodsky
- "Animal Farm" - George Orwell
- "Utopia for Realists" - Rutger Bregman
- "Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley
- "Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook" - Christina Henry
- "The Happiness Hormones" - Loretta Graziano Breuning
- "The Purple Dress" - O. Henry
- "Memorabilia" - Xenophon
- "The Life of Our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt" - Saint Sophronius
- "The Analects" - Confucius
- "The Secret Garden" - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- "The Mystery of Manor Hall" - Jane Cammack
- "Missing in Sydney" - Andrea M. Hutchinson
- "The Path of a Programmer: From 100 to 10,000 a Month" - A. Nikitin, D. Lyapin
- "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" - Mark Twain
- "Online Store Without Startup Capital" - T. Shakov
- "The 4-Hour Workweek" - Tim Ferriss
- "On Introducing Uniformity in Russia" - Kozma Prutkov
- "How to Become a Blogger with a Million Followers" - Marina Mogilko
- "Rich Dad Poor Dad" - Robert Kiyosaki
- "Invasion: A Brief History of Russian Hackers" - Daniil Turovsky
- "Memoirs of Stalin’s Former Secretary" - Boris Bazhanov
- "Learn English: 300% Faster" - Archer
🔭 I'm currently working on a "OOP Patterns Unlocked" book
📫 How to reach me: [email protected]