My profession photo taken several years ago. I'm wearing a light sweater there, I'm slightly smiling.

André Polykanine

@menelion@caneandable.social · Joined ⁨Aug⁩ ⁨2026⁩

A married and happy geek from Strasbourg, France.
Backend software engineer and accessibility specialist with 20 years of experience.
I live with my wife and our two cats, and I believe cats are the cutest, yet the most independent companions.
Pagan, worshiper of Scandinavian gods.
This account is multilingual, posts may contain strong language.
No alt text, no boost.
AI is our assistant, not our replacement, not our enemy.
Pro-European, pro-American, leaning to the right.
Opinions are my own.

Spoken languages
English, Français, Українська, Русский, Deutsch

#music

sometimes I think how this planet is big and multilayered. Accidentally (as with nearly all my musical discoveries) I've recently started to discover #Kazakh #Music. It's that very case when you have deep feelings resonating inside you but you can't really explain it, although you have enough knowledge in musical theory. Like, the main Kazakh instrument is a dombra/dombyra, which is a two-stringed lute.
What can you get from just two strings tuned in fourth or fifth?
Actually, lots of stuff. But when you try to put it into words, it becomes tasteless and colorless.
Kazakhs have a traditional form of musical art called küy, it's basically instrumental pieces for dombra, most often improvized, expressing the musician's feelings or impressions of an event, meeting or changes in his/her life.
anyway, if you want to have a very interesting listening experience you've possibly never had, try googling for Kazakh traditional songs and music. Maybe it won't resonate with you as it did with me, but it's still interesting.
#Kazakhstan #Ethnomusicology #Folk #Traditional

Okay people, new instance, new #Introduction!
I'm Andre, a (mostly) backend software engineer and accessibility specialist from Ukraine living in Strasbourg, France.
I'm married and happy, we have two cats.
My main interests are #Technology, #Books, #Music, #Languages, #Accessibility.
I'm blind from birth, if it matters (it may, because I will ask for image descriptions if you send me images without alt text).
My operating system of choice is #Windows, my AI coding assistant is #ClaudeCode, my smart speaker assistant is #AmazonAlexa.
I use my phone far more seldom than 99% of you, preferring my laptop.
I love various kinds of music, especially renaissance and traditional folk music of most peoples of the world.
I'm Pagan, but I revere Jesus christ and his Mother Mary (it might sound complicated, so ask if interested, I'm open to such discussions), so Christians won't see any blasphemy in my posts.
I like talking politics also, but in our times it becomes tougher and tougher, as many people tend to take bold actions if you disagree with them politically. Long story short: I'm pro-Occidental, pro-American, pro-European, leaning right.
I'm in the beginning of develloping our small business (together with my wife, of course). We have some smaller pieces of software and libraries, also my wife has finished a hexalogy (six-book series) of fantasy novels, for now in Russian, but I hope we'll find ways to translate at least into English and French.
That was long already, so ask for more. Oh yeah, I'm a language nerd!