Stories tagged “productivity”
Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
What could be better than summing up the existential results of the year? In fact, a lot of things (almost everything). But I honestly believe that sometimes, to actually change something, you have to…
I never liked writing email templates. They always broke my sense of beauty (the same way their responsiveness breaks in different clients): 1. Monstrous inline CSS 2. Lots of restrictions on which CS…
While it rains outside almost every day, I’ve gone back to working on the project (the same one I first planned to launch in August, then in September). Here is what is already done: 1. A solid MVP th…
Yesterday OpenAI introduced GPT-5, and the new model is already leading in most benchmarks. My subjective take after a few conversations with GPT-5: it is so good that I honestly cannot imagine how we…
Here is the funny part: I sometimes write about AI, I keep up with almost all the updates from major players like OpenAI and Anthropic, yet yesterday I was complaining about a task that was routine an…
Sometimes you get stuck on the same thing for several days, not because you ran into something difficult, but rather the opposite: the task is routine and boring, yet it still demands a meticulous app…
Yesterday I had one of the most interesting interviews of my career: I was interviewing a candidate for a DevOps Engineer role, and the most curious part was that the candidate was a representative of…
As I’ve said before, summer is work season. So here we go. If anyone thought that once Fullyst launched I would stop building good projects, those people were very wrong. Over time, Fullyst has grown …
Yesterday, along with the new models, OpenAI released Codex CLI, a full-fledged coding agent you can use right from the terminal. To me it looks like a perfect complement and, in some ways, a replacem…
Holiday week is the best time to launch new features :) While everyone is slowing down, you can quietly ship updates, test ideas, and polish the experience without extra noise. It is a great moment to…
AI has quietly broken into our lives over just a couple of years. It has not replaced life as we know it, but it has greatly augmented it. At this point someone is guaranteed to say something like 'la…
On Monday I had a textbook experience of ‘adult’ work: a quarterly report. But let me start from the beginning. In July I was given a new position, Head of Infrastructure at a large blockchain company…
To be honest, last Friday I decided to write a new post here every Friday to bring some order to these chaotic days. So, here it is. This week was all about order and dealing with entropy in the futur…
I could write about my new position as Head of Infrastructure, but instead… Well, I will write about it. Just over two weeks ago, I got promoted and now I am the Head of Infrastructure, managing a lar…
I recently decided to hire a junior-level backend developer, junior-level frontend developer, and junior-level marketing specialist for just $20 per month, and I opted for GPT-4. After using it for a …