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Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
Today, for the first time, I had to fire someone from my infrastructure team. He was a good DevOps engineer who had worked at our company for almost three years. It was so sad that I still feel unsett…
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…
I stumbled on a quote by George Carlin: 'If all kids are special, why do they grow up to be ordinary adults?' It got me thinking, because it really does ring true. When I was in school, every class, s…
A few words about bank disputes. Yesterday Stripe sent me a very 'happy' notification: Improvy OÜ has a second open dispute from a customer who paid us $33 for a monthly subscription and used Fullyst …
Every time it sounds so nice: 'As a trusted developer' 😁 I just realized that the Improvy OÜ account will soon be in the top 'Tier 5' at OpenAI. At first it’s a bit scary to have so many p…
Earlier I wrote that Improvy OÜ was accepted into the Fullyst Alpha program. I’m really happy about it, and although Web Summit is only in November, the team is already preparing for the event. Web Su…
A few words about immigration for my small audience. I left Russia in March 2021, so at this point I have spent 3.5 years living in other countries. When I brush up against contemporary Russian cultur…
I saw this image on Reddit and I have to say something about the EU. As a guy living in the EU now, I am struggling with a lot of limitations, especially around AI. For example, I pay for ChatGPT, but…
I just realized that I can’t really put into words feelings about things that happened more than a week ago. Or, to be honest, I can, but only with my voice, not in text. So in my head, only these wor…
Another unpopular opinion. Over the last few months a strange consensus has taken shape across art communities worldwide: AI steals our paintings and will steal our jobs. This position is not unique t…
My another unpopular opinion. Last month there was a global consensus in artist communities: AI is 'stealing' our artworks and will steal our jobs. This view is not unique to artists, but they are one…
Taxes. An unpopular opinion. I think this post might be controversial because I have an unpopular view on taxes in today’s world. Let me briefly explain my position. First, I am convinced that a progr…
Second, the social tax should be abolished. The government is simply unable to provide adequate social security services. Take Mike's example again: in Germany he has to pay about €16,289 in social se…
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…
A curious thing I noticed when I started actively promoting @FullystBot directly to Telegram chats (I DM the admins of chats I personally read): Many of them already use a bot whose entire functionali…