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Vasili Sviridov

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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 has

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

Updated the blog to Ghost v6

Now to figure out why ActivityPub does not work... Update: Figured out ActivityPub issue... Could not run it locally because I need split DNS to run this from behind my silly domestic modem, so I ended up switching to Ghost's own AP coordinator. I'd have to

Podcast Episode 87: Age and Identity Verification, Censorship, and Authoritarianism

In today's episode we touch on topics of Age and Identity verification online, whether or not it's the job of the Government to protect people from "harmful" opinions, whether they are even capable of doing it and how these kinds of solutions might look

Podcast Episode 86: Socialization, Browser Wars, Paid social media

In today's episode we talked started chatting about making friends online through video games. I had a chance to talk about the UK situation with their Age verification guidelines (which we will be greatly expanding on in an upcoming episode, so stay tuned). Mo brought his gripes with

Podcast Episode 85: AI and Authoritarianism

Pardon the delay in releasing the episode, things have been a bit hectic with home renovations, but we should be back for the regular schedule... 🤞 In today's episode a large chunk was dedicated to a discussion about how AI can aid censorship regimes, whether the AI should be

Podcast Episode 84: Romantic notions in dev...

In this episode we discuss several (repeating) themes. I posit that there are no more romantic notions about software development. It's mostly known, and mostly trivial and/or tedious. Actual discovery is reserved for a small few, and most devs are just there in the pixel mines, chipping