Sharing experience, insights, and practical solutions from real projects. Architecture, performance, processes, and teams.
Complete guide to using pandas in backend development: log analysis, Excel/ERP integration, ETL pipelines, data validation, and report generation. Practical use cases with code and real-world stories.
Honest breakdown of migrating to Pydantic v2: 6 weeks of spare time, 3 production issues, -75% latency, and a bunch of gotchas discovered. No marketing, just practice.
An expert Cassandra deep dive for Python/backend engineers: from the masterless architecture to a production-ready cluster with monitoring.
Expert guide to Apache Kafka for Python developers: from concepts to production-ready FastAPI integration. Practical examples, pitfalls, and testing.
Complete guide to testing business hypotheses in practice: how to gather feedback when you have no customers, why interviews lie, and how to properly launch an MVP using a mobile app example.
Step-by-step guide to implementing Husky and automating code quality through git hooks. Complete configs for JavaScript/TypeScript and Python projects.
Step-by-step guide to creating a REST API for motivational quotes using FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and Pydantic. From basic structure to production-ready solution with validation, migrations, and documentation.
Complete guide to Python generators: from basic concepts to advanced patterns. Understanding yield mechanics, iterator protocol, coroutines, and practical interview cases.
Deep dive into deferred annotations (PEP 649), template strings (PEP 750), and JIT compiler for architects and tech leads.
Proven methodology for building a personal brand: from your first post to a steady flow of inbound requests. No fluff, no abstractions.
You're selling a promise of a product that doesn't exist. It works, but carries legal, ethical, and methodological risks. Analysis of the method for those who will try it anyway.
Packed 20 years of experience into a practical testing course. 11 lessons without fluff, real bugs, ready-to-use templates, and measurable results — all free.
Yesterday at an HR conference, I heard again: 'Young people don't want to work, everyone leaves after a month'. Here's a 2013 case study of how we reduced early attrition from 42% to 14%. Spoiler: it's not about 'young people', it's about the system.
Spent two days preparing educational materials and realized: nobody will pay for this. So I'm paying with my time. If you're paying — calculate ROI. There's none in a quarter horizon, but this is how you capture territory.
Methodology and algorithm: how to calculate costs under load, choose tools, and turn results into decisions.
Building the core team for a new educational project — a closed club for developers and tech leads. First month is free. Inviting those ready to grow together.
I mastered Wagtail CMS — great architecture, convenient admin, Django under the hood. The problem is different: corporate websites are dead. The lower segment went to Tilda, the upper — to specialized tools. And developers are left with questions: what to offer clients now?
RSS seemed like a dying technology, but the emergence of RSS-to-Telegram bridges opened new opportunities for business. We analyze how to use the RSS + Telegram combo for content marketing, analytics, and automation.
When you know why you're alive, the technical part gets solved. That's why I ditched long-term job interviews and went to make money as an entrepreneur. My goal is a new level of vitality and impact on the world.
When MDX files in your repo work better than Contentful or Strapi. Exploring type-safe content, custom components, and content layer architecture — without unnecessary abstractions and monthly bills.
Interview in a few hours. They'll ask about binary trees I've never used. But in my head — a different optimization problem: how to fit work, Godot startups, health, and people into 24 hours. The math doesn't add up.
Complete guide to setting up automated Next.js deployment to your own server via GitLab CI/CD. PM2 for zero-downtime, Nginx Proxy Manager for domain management, secrets management, and multi-environment setup.
How the advice 'why drink when you can smoke' turned into a detention cell, two years with a narcologist, and the understanding that problems need to be solved, not suppressed. No morals—just facts and consequences.
An imaginary conversation with my psychological archetype about how strength of spirit and positivity are not innate qualities but muscles that need training. Even when nerves are frayed and the wallet is empty.
A story from 2015 when two certification companies—Russian Register and ProffExpert—approached me simultaneously. A lesson about why working with clients who pinch pennies is a bad idea.
An honest story about developer self-deception: 32,600 lines of code, 196 tests, 11 completed MVP stages, CI/CD, monitoring — and zero real users. Turns out, I was writing code not for business, but for self-validation.
Three months of remote work in Crimea: how I balanced projects with exploration, what I managed to see — from the submarine museum to paragliding, and why GitHub became an unexpected problem.
How a simple translation turned into rethinking navigation. Why “I Make Projects The Right Way” doesn’t work in English, and how I arrived at “Me → Craft → Work → Way → Right.”
Reflections on the nature of software architecture, the cemetery of projects, and the cost of transitions. Written in 2017 — still relevant.
What happens when you try to assemble a portfolio after 20 years? Whole projects, periods, achievements vanish from memory. 20+ cases in 2 days — and half felt new to me. Honest notes on amnesia, mental health, and accepting my path.
An honest post about leaving a stable career for a childhood dream. Why after 20 years in web dev I’m moving to Godot and mobile games, past attempts, and why now is the time.
Own data center cheaper than cloud: with Proxmox VE and an old server I run 15+ VMs for development, save ~$500/month, and have full control over the stack.
Building a safe password generator and lightweight vault with client‑side encryption, offline mode, and Supabase sync. Architecture choices, PWA, i18n, and Telegram integration notes.
Real‑world experience migrating production Supabase to my own server: why I did it, what went wrong, what I saved, and a pragmatic checklist.
My top favorite in frontend architecture. Explaining how FSD layers — from shared to pages — transform a mess into a structured system that scales painlessly. Speaking from experience after implementing it in a dozen projects.