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Latest — 02 Feb 2026

Podcast Episode 94: A little retirement

Hello everyone. In today's episode we chat about my little retirement preview 😄. I'm spending more time with the family and less time thinking about work. We chat about some anecdotes of people saying they are losing coding skills after relying on AI too much. I also

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Podcast Episode 93: Web dev is a slog

In today's episode I complain about how web development has not been fun for a while, the excesses of modern development patterns, and cargo cults following huge enterprise patterns for a 5 person teams. We touch on the RAM/SSD crisis and how it may have the potential

Podcast Episode 92: Internet oopsies, innovation, etc...

In today's episode Mo and I talk about various oopsies that happened recently with Cloudflare and AWS. How Rust Evangelism Strike Force is on high alert after a wild .unwrap() has brought down half the internet again... From there the conversation flows into how to prevent such terrible

Adventures in upgrading Proxmox

📺Hacker News Thread Running docker inside LXC is weird. It's containers on top of other container, and there was a fairly recent issue with AppArmor that prevented some functionality from running inside a docker container with very cryptic error. I was trying to deploy coolify and/or dokploy

Podcast Episode 91: Open Source is Cooked

In today's episode I vent some of my frustrations with the open source scene. It seems like any project of note is completely overtaken by activists and agitators, and it is no longer about technical merit, but all the usual buzzwords of the 2020-ies. Sad. Also, commies turned

Setting up SAML for Kimai time tracker using Zitadel IDP

A few days ago I decided to install Kimai time tracker software onto my home lab. I'm working on a personal project that would require external paid contributors, so, naturally, I want a system to track the time, and in vein will all my other tooling - it

Podcast Episode 90: Fatherhood

Also, I have IG now for photos. Check it out... https://instagram.com/vasili.sviridov

Polyglot 2025

So, today I got a notification for Polyglot Unconference coming back in just a couple of weeks. So, catch me there! Polyglot Software Unconference 2025A day of spontaneous sharing, learning, and networking for software builders. Participants set the agenda using “open-spaces” format.Eventbrite https://www.polyglotsoftware.com/

Podcast Episode 89: OSS vs Commercial Licensing

In today's episode we chat about strategies for finding technical support for integrated libraries and more complex solutions. Do you go with a commercial vendor and be at the mercy of their capacity to solve your issues, or do you pick an open source project and put your

Podcast Episode 88

In today's episode we chat about food prices, grocery logistics, inflation and margins. We also touch upon agriculture, farming, regulation and it's impacts on the above. In the second part we talk about conceptual doomscrolling impacts our lives, the road from legacy media to social media