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Sharing experience, insights, and practical solutions from real projects. Architecture, performance, processes, and teams.

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·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
  • #choice
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·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
  • #balance
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·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
  • #choice
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·7 min

A Letter from Jack London: About Positivity When Your Wallet Is Empty

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.

  • #life
  • #psychology
  • #motivation
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·8 min

Summer in Crimea: Remote Work, Museums, and GitHub Sanctions

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.

  • #life
  • #crimea
  • #travel
  • #remote-work
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·15 min

I Don’t Remember Half of What I Built: The Weird Reality of Filling a Portfolio

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.

  • #life
  • #psychology
  • #career
  • #reflection
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·11 min

Changing Everything: From Corporate Developer to My Own Games and Products

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.

  • #life
  • #entrepreneurship
  • #gamedev
  • #godot
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