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How about that new Google login screen?

I’m unsure what to think about it. But it doesn’t seem like it was ready for Production.

March 7, 2024

Why I love London

I am recently back from my second-ever trip to London and the city is as amazing as I remember it from the first one.

February 19, 2024

Blogdynamic v2 now in Beta!

It’s time I tried some new stuff with this blog’s theme, without forgetting the original philosophies behind it.

February 18, 2024

2024 is here

And it has been so for about 2 weeks. One of my goals this year is to pick this blog up again. I have written some stuff in Medium which I have decided to move to this blog (I just haven’t gotten around to doing it), but even then it […]
January 14, 2024

Inclusion In Tech: Are We Doing Enough About Ageism?

Later this month, I’ll be turning 28. It’s strange to think now that I had started learning English when I was 8 – this means that was 20 years ago. A fifth of a century. It makes me feel… Old. See, at this point in my life I am at […]
March 12, 2023

The return of Windows Phone?

I have certainly not abandoned this blog – it’s just that the first months of 2023 were absolutely crazy to me. And in my absence, it seems like ChatGPT is the thing that everyone is talking about now. ChatGPT was released in November 2022, and it quickly has become part […]
March 5, 2023

About the FAANG layoffs

Ah yes, FAANG. Not long ago, the end goal of a programmer’s career was to work at FAANG. They had the best salaries possible, all the perks, all the ball pools, cool loopy sliders instead of boring stairs, and free food at the cafeteria. They have basically set the bar […]
January 23, 2023

Cui Bono?: No-cost Software and Equality of Opportunity

I woke up at 7AM today as it is usual. Did my morning routine and off I was to work in WordPress stuff. Shortly afterwards, P. woke up and the first thing he told me after “good morning” was: “Let’s go out and have breakfast”, he said. “I saw a […]
January 6, 2023

0395.ch Lore: why 0395?

0395, or 395 for short. Here are relevant facts about that number: It is divisible by other 4 integers: 1, 5, 79 and 395. Their sum is 480, which has all of its numerals as dividable by 2 (and is dividable by 2 itself), and 2 is my lucky number; […]
January 3, 2023

How to Hire a Programmer

Back in the 19th century, work was extremely straightforward. You enter the factory at an assigned time, then you’d spend the next 18 hours pushing a lever or putting in corkscrews or doing something mindnumbingly boring. And that was about it. If you were born in 1840 and died in […]
January 1, 2023