This is my first published retrospective, hope it will be interesting to read in 10-years time. After all, 2021 by all means is not “just another year” with so much happened and still happening.
Category Archives: Life
Art of small steps
“Lord, I ask not about miracles, and not the mirages, and the strength of each day. Teach me the art of small steps. Make me an observant and resourceful, that the diversity of everyday life in time to dwell on the discoveries and experiences that made me excited. Teach me how to properly dispose of …
On stock market
Like it or not, stock market today works as the global ocean. It engulfs everything and affects everyone. And just as the global ocean, it can wreck havoc on entire countries, even continents. There are tsunamis, storms and killer waves. Cities can be swept away in a matter of hours. But simple grain of sand …
Turkish culture
One of my old dreams was to casually meet and have a meaningful chat with someone in a foreign country, from a completely different background. Seems easy (especially for you, extroverts!) but if you think of it, it may actually be not so simple, given our hectic lifestyle. Well, my one-year old son 🧒 does …
Life is a series of rooms
Life is a series of rooms, and who we get stuck in those rooms with, adds up to what our lives are Katheryn Winnick, House M.D. series
On influencers and social “proof”
There is one trait of modern society which really annoys me. I think it doesn’t have a name (yet) but is very close to well-known syndrome, called narcissism. But it’s not quite that. People tend to blindly believe anything from influencers with huge numbers of followers on social media. Amount of bullshit sold that way …
SCRUM
How to copy public SSH key
I found myself completely unable to remember this exact command, so let’s save it here forever: To copy public key from rsa_id.pub to clipboard To show public key from rsa_id.pub in terminal and copy it to clipboard There. No more googling this.
Difference between 54 and */54 in crontab
We’re using CLI (specifically WP CLI) a lot and this week I’ve spent a couple of days trying to find a reason for a very strange behavior. A task, scheduled to execute every 54 minutes does so, but also starts at 00 minutes every hour. I might have never found it, but that specific task …
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Snow and beauty of winter in Moscow, 2019
Today is February 14 and it’s truly beautiful outside. I mean it, this million-shades of grey landscape is awesome. I feel at home with it. Large snowflakes falling, everything is white and clean. Not freezing cold. Not brown dirty. Just white. You can see not more than 500 meters ahead of you and after that …
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