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Welcome to the personal homepage of Alex Yatskov, a Seattle-based game programmer. My goal for this site is to provide an way to share my interests and projects with others and to show what I have accomplished professionally as a software developer over the years.

News and Updates

December 26, 2012

My return to Arch Linux as my primary operating system from Debian has prompted me to finally update Yomichan to work with the latest version of Anki. This isn't really a feature release, but rather just some reshuffling to make the plugin be compatible with the version 2 interface.

May 17, 2012

I recently moved both my site and domains away from Dreamhost, hopefully not breaking anything in the process. Despite being a bit on the expensive side for entry-level shared hosting, they seem to have a fair share of stability issues... I've also switched to using Git for managing my website's content, it's super neat.

November 11, 2011

My site was was hacked by someone from Estonia. This incident actually took place three days earlier, but because my site didn't appear any different I didn't immediately realize this. I guess one of the problems with running a CMS instead of simply having static content is that you end up relying on a fairly large software stack to be secure. When an exploit is discovered it takes a while for all the updates to propagate up the chain; it's possible to get hacked despite having the latest version of whatever CMS you are using.

October 30, 2011

New version of Mangle (2.3) is released. Thanks go to Marek Kubica for contributing features and improvements to this version of Mangle!