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From Pacific Northwest to the World...
In just under a week, I've been to LP shows in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, Canada. Still can't believe all of it actually did, in fact...
I've been trying to think about the good sides of 'AI', but the more I think about, the more I realize that it will only worsen existing ine...
What a local installment of the No Kings Day parade looked like in a small(ish) town in WA.
🐻 with me, I'm trying something here.
Some videos, songs, pictures and such. Presented without comments.
Another year is in the books, it's time for the latest installment of my "Year in Review" series. This year sucked in so many ways, but ther...
Since I've moved out of Russia in 2011, I've been to dozens of concerts. Just wanted to have a record of the shows I liked, mostly for my ow...
After 7 long years, Linkin Park is back with their new lead singer Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara, new song "Emptiness Machine", new album "Fr...
The summer is almost over, time to reflect on how it all went. I hiked a bit, worked a lot, read even more, went to a couple of concerts, tr...
New job, new games, new projects. Everything is new, but somehow it all feels the same.
Astro just released Astro DB, a fully managed database integrated with the framework itself. I created a views counter for my blog, and love...
I really wanted to embed some of my Mastodon posts right into my blog posts, but there were no good options to do so. Well, I've built one.
I run a small Mastodon instance, and recently I've migrated it from a Docker container in Digital Ocean to my own Kubernetes cluster on Host...
Being recently laid off, I expect to send out hundreds of job applications in coming weeks and months. Why not make working with resume upda...
There's this popular practice among engineers to talk through problems out loud. When there's nobody around (or you don't want to interrupt...
Another year is coming to an end. This one didn't feel like it was too long, which is good, I guess. Time to count the chickens (or somethin...
After years and years of hosting this blog on Vercel, I'm moving away to my own Kubernetes cluster. Here's how (and why).
If you trying to build a Node 20 image with Docker on Apple Silicon while upgrading from an older Node versions, you may get stuck on the `n...
I’ve been toying with this side project for a couple of months, and I’m pretty happy about how it’s been going so far.
It's been quite a while since my last update, and I just want to post something to say that I'm alive :)
My expectations for 2022 were really low, but holly hell, it managed to not live up even to these abysmally low expectations.
I'm often angry at Amazon, but this time it's for a reason not directly related to their terrible business practices.
I've deactivated my twitter account recently in favor of Mastodon. Here's why.
This year I've run an experiment: I replaced the lawn in our backyard with a meadow. And it went pretty well!
Just wanted to say hi to those who found me here while rediscovering the internet outside of social media.
For the first time in a while, a trip felt truly like a proper vacation. The one that doesn't require another vacation to recover from it :)...
I can't remember how this tradition started exactly, but every year since, like, 2015 we've been doing this camping thing right around Fathe...
I've managed to squeeze quite a few vacation days into this weird summer, and just over a week ago my wife and I went camping at the foothil...
Another week, another hike. I almost forgot how rewarding it is to spend a few hours just walking through a forest, alone with my own though...
Lawns are bad. Bad for the environment, bad for local wildlife, they are useless, thirsty, and require a lot of maintenance just to keep the...
After our failed first hike of the season, we've managed to get one recorded yesterday.
The 2022 hiking season is off to a rough start: out of two hikes we attempted as a family, one ended with an impassable road about two miles...
This is unspeakable: Russia is bombing Ukraine. I'm Russian-American, and most of my family remains in Russia. I love Ukraine with all my he...
Effective immediately, I'm protected by the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 👴🏻
2021 was a very long year. In part because we didn't get to decompress after 2020, in part because a lot of 2020 stayed with us through the...
It's funny how I spend a lot of my free time on tweaking this website, improving this or that, adding a random feature, or falling down a ra...
For years I wanted to attend CascadiaJS 2021, a PNW-native JavaScript conference. And for a while, I either couldn’t afford it, didn’t have...
At the bottom of this page you can find the latest song I've listened to on Apple Music. Here's how I made it works.
I've been writing stuff that nobody reads for a long time. Now I not only do it here but also in a private paper-based journal. And it's bee...
I've upgraded my keyboard recently. It's been a frustraring, fullfilling, and invigorating experience so far.
2020 was a year of, among other things, missed concerts. I missed live music so much that as soon as I got a chance to go to concerts again,...
Just a few photos from the bike ride through Arlington, Washington.
Unifi Talk by Ubiquity is a very promising service. However, so far it's been lacking documentation. Here's how to configure Twilio SIP Trun...
The summer is different this year. Let's take a look at what's going on this time around.
Let's make sure that you never miss an alt text in your image tags using Azure Computer Vision.
It's been such an exhausting yet exciting month. The new house stuff is coming along, moving out is on track, work is buzzing. I'm tired, pu...
A a lot had happend in the past month. We closed on the house, got fully vaccinated, I won a hackathon at work, and once again updated this...
This one is short: house hunting is over & family is in town!
An exciting week, full of driving around and anticipation of change.
In order to keep myself accounatble and to develop some writing consistency, I'm going to start posting weekly updates. Here's the first one...