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Vasili Sviridov

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Going paperless with Paperless-NGX and a document scanner

I'm getting quite tired of the reams of paper that everyone is trying to send to my mailbox on any random occasion. Did you know, that you can put a red dot sticker on the inside of your mailbox to stop receiving all mail that is not explicitly

Bots signing up

In the last week a bunch of blog signups have happened, but they are extremely suspicious. I've switched the sign up to paid only to prevent that, but if you want to subscribe - let me know and I'll give you an invite.

Podcast Episode 97: Startups

Hello everyone, in today's episode we are talking primarily about startups. My information is fairly outdated, since I've not really been a part of one in a while, but it should still be mostly correct, I would hope. Check it out. P.S. As the kid

Zigbee Groups in HomeAssistant

Finally figured out how Zigbee groups work in home assistant. If you have multiple devices (e.g. smart bulbs) and you want to control them all at once, you could add them directly to your automations, but you may notice, that they do not turn on simultaneously and sometimes some

Podcast Episode 96: Incentives and Conspiracies

After much wait and not being able to connect, we have finally managed to do so. 5 weeks of not talking means there's a lot to cover and it shows. This episode has the longest run time so far, and it could've gone on for even

Podcast Episode 95: The black pill

In today's episode we talk about how the simulation we all inhabit was likely updated in 2010, after which everything kinda went to shit, so we demand a roll-back...

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

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