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15+ years of software engineering, and the last three spent shipping my own SaaS, browser extensions, and games. These notes cover the engineering, the growth, and the honest trade-offs.

Artyom Shimanski – Entrepreneur & Software Developer Written by Artyom Shimanski Last updated August 2, 2026 RSS

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How LinkedIn Text Formatting Really Works (It's Not a Font)

Every “LinkedIn font” you've ever seen is the same trick wearing a different hat: Unicode characters that merely look bold or italic. After building a formatter myself, here is exactly how the trick works, what it costs you in accessibility and search, and the formatting rules I actually follow.

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Artyom Shimanski – Entrepreneur & Software Developer

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Artyom Shimanski

Entrepreneur & Software Developer

I spent more than a decade in software engineering before going all in on my own products three years ago. That turned into 8 products so far, from SaaS platforms to browser extensions and games. Everything here comes from shipping them: no theory I haven't paid for myself.

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