Work Notes

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Professional2025-11-18 · 12 min

Wagtail CMS: A Beautiful Product from 2012 That No Longer Has a Place

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?

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2025-11-16·10 min

If You Have an Answer to 'Why', You'll Handle Any 'How'

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.

#life
#entrepreneurship
#honesty

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2025-11-14·12 min

Life Tetris on Nightmare: Work, Startups, People, and Job Hunting

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.

#life
#work
#honesty

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2025-11-12·9 min

Three Days in Solitary: The Price of a San Francisco Life Hack

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.

#life
#honesty
#mistakes

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2025-11-09·10 min

Code Therapy: How I Built Two Startups for 0 Users

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.

#startups
#mvp
#self-development

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