Underworlds Scriptorium fabula.

Around 90% of recruiters who called me are useless for industry.

My greetings. It is 00:26 February 23th 2026th CST. And I have been thinking about publishing this article for a long time, but was involved into edits of newly introduced statistics page and it postponed this publication.

I have been trying to find job since around june 2023 and I have been receiving from 5 to 15 calls per day. Most (95%) of callers have Indian accent and they keep asking the same questions again and again. Questions like:

  • What is your email?
  • How many years of professional experience do you have?
  • What is your work authorization?
  • What is your current location?
  • What is your interview availability?
  • Are you currently on a project?

And many, many other questions answers to which I have listed on this page. You may follow and see almost full list of those questions. Initially I was answering those questions and it was taking around 15 minutes of my time and usually after the "quiz" was completed they were telling me that they are going to send me email with "Rights to represent" and they asked me to confirm that email and then after they have sent me an email requesting my driver license copy (with "important" information covered) and my passport number and my green card copy. And eventually I came to decision to in... continue reading.


How you can be accused of anything in the USA and get banned. Second story. How I got Banned from "Epoch Coffee" 221 W N Loop Blvd, Austin, TX 78751.

Hello. It is 02:45 February 8th 2026th CST. After first article about similar subject this would be second occasion I touch it. It has happened 19:24 on August 6th of 2025th. I know this because I have recorded conversation between me and one of the "bosses" (or at least that is how he introduced himself) by name "Zack" of "Epoch coffee" of "221 W N Loop Blvd, Austin, TX 78751" location.

There was a time when one my good friend has shoved me this place somewhere, I believe, in January of 2025th. I liked atmosphere of that place, little area with trees and benches near by, and big opened space of cemetery.

I started coming to this place almost every night to work on my project while being around people. It is nice feeling to at least feel that there are alive people around you, see them and hear. And with time I made new friends there. One of them were couple of young guy and his girlfriend, Evan and Lia. :) I enjoyed their company and we played alot of card game "Set". Even is smart, motivated to learn and respectful guy. I could write a whole separate story on how we met. :) I probably should do that...

One time on August 6th I came to this location of Epoch Coffee around 8pm and stayed working till about 7am. Somewhere at 4am (or around that time) barista's shift h... continue reading.


How you can be accused of anything in the USA and get banned just because you are being yourself. First story.

Hello. It is 20:32 January 8th 2026th CST and I have been postponing publishing this fabula for a long time. It would be very different from all previous fabulas that you may find published on this resource so far. Everything I published previously was related to my iCoup project, or updates related to this resource. This on is going to be different and might attract your attention in some specific way. :) This story is about how men are treated in the USA and a little about how google review operates. You will get my perspective on these events and how I interpret them. Events followed would scar you forever.

I became a member of the "Anytime Fitness" on march 11 of 2025 and was visiting the location at 2525 W Anderson Ln., Austin, TX 78757. I was banned from that location on Jun 19 2025. And I left the google review related to the events that lead to the ban and the details of how it happened. But my review was never available to the public. If I open google review from under my account under which I have left the review - then I am able to see my review, but if I open google reviews from under anonymous or another account - then review is not visible.

First I will present you with content of my review and after that I shall turn to tell you about my communication with google review support team because it des... continue reading.


Behold - Minor improvements were introduced.

It is 22:02 CST 3 january 2026 and I just finished fixing minor unexpected behavior which showed itself in case when you would have 2 influences of the same type and would loose influence and pick the influence ON THE RIGHT side - you would see that the influence on the LEFT side would become revealed. Also the same behavior could be observed if you lost influence on the right side, and later performed EXCHANGE action then you would see that the revealed influence (the one that was on the right side) would move to the left. Now behavior is more correlated to expected in such situations.

Also about 4 days ago added glare on the influences during "influence loos".

Animated gif which shows glare on cards during influence loose event.

And added same glare to influences to EXCHANGE dialogue during EXCHANGE action.

Animated gif which shows glare on cards during the EXCHANGE dialogue.

Changed visual behavior of EXCHANGE dialogue from picked cards to become smaller to picked cards to become larger. Such behavior feels more natural.

Animated gif which shows how picked cards zoom in during the EXCHANGE dialogue.

So far these are all the updates. Have not decided on the next step, have some options.

Happy New Year Everyone! By the way... ^_^

The Emperor Protects.


Pavel Sapronov CV

Welcome. Feel free to download my resume here.

As a result of having to waste a lot of time on interviews that lead to nothing since the time I was laid off from the Pearson project, I do not have the motivation to participate in interviews without financial encouragement. It seems to me that recruiters/outsource companies do not value the time and effort that I put into participating in interviews with them. As a result of that I may provide you with recordings of my previous technical interviews. You may watch this one free of charge. Remember you are not allowed to copy or anyhow else save this video to your computer/phone or any other device. You have allowance to watch it strictly for purposes of estimation my professional and technical fit to position you are looking to fill as a recruiter or company representative. If you would like to see more video recordings of previously recorded interviews you may buy them at a price $20/hour if you would like to watch them instead of financially encouraging me to participate in technical/non technical interviews with you to determine fit the position you are looking to fill.

I believe that my personal project https://programmer-underworlds.dev and it’s source code (which is available for public access) contains enough examples of how I write code and demonstrates my level as a software developer, which means that ... continue reading.