Creative Articulation

As I’ve been working with SOTA models from Anthropic and OpenAI practically all day every day for the last ~2.5 years now, the idiom “to make hay while the sun shines” has repeatedly come to my mind, seemingly of its own accord.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than ten months since I posted my 2025 summer GenAI tool review.

It’s been just eight months since my 2024 year-end GenAI tool review, and the landscape already feels unrecognizable.

Like most everyone in my company (and, if you’re reading this, probably yours as well), my colleagues and I have been enthusiastically adopting AI tech, particularly LLMs, since ChatGPT 3.5 first showed us what was possible with next-token prediction and…

The American political Left and Right are full of takes on the recent public takedown of Zelenskyy by Trump and Vance in the White House.

I don’t normally spend any time on navel-gazing posts about tools that I use, to say nothing of year-end predictions.

Not long ago I resumed posting stuff on 𝕏.

Prince Volodymyr's statue has watched Ukraine's enemies attack Kyiv for well over 150 years.

My earlier post about my air raid response protocols prompted some interest in what specifically is in my “alarm suitcase” (тривожний чемодан in Ukrainian), or what English-speaking preppers would typically call a “bug-out bag” or “BoB”.

I really dislike business travel, but I really REALLY dislike expense reports.

In a previous post I made mention of the air raid alarms that we have all become accustomed to hearing in Ukrainian cities almost daily.

Today, 24 August, is the day when Ukraine celebrates her independence.

Approximately 15 years ago, I was running the engineering team at AppAssure Software, working on what was at the time a cutting-edge new feature: the ability to restore our backups of your physical servers, to a VMWare virtual machine!

I’m shocked and horrified to realize that it was almost FIVE long years ago that I celebrated the receipt of my Ukraine temporary residence permit!

The Rust Foundation ruffled a lot of feathers when they posted a draft Trademark Policy document that is…well..let’s say it’s heavy-handed to an extent that seems far out of proportion to the necessary protection of a legal trademark.

Both of my US Senators, Scott and Rubio, do not allow their constituents to write messages longer than 3000 character (for Rubio) or 2000 characters (for Scott).

Disclaimer I’m writing this post as an honest and frank description of my experience coding in Rust these last six months.

Official Ukraine Residency Permit Obtaining this residency permit was not complicated, and the entire process start to finish was well under three months.

By now the major Western media outlets will have reported on the incident in the Azov Sea in which Russian forces fired upon and captured three Ukrainian Navy craft conducting FONOPS in what is apparently now disputed waters.

Brand new, modern, efficient Passport Center in Ukraine (photo by Bogdan Gandziuk) I had heard many horror stories from expats and Ukrainians about the nightmarish Soviet-style bureaucracy involved in obtaining immigration documents.

Today I awoke to a very cold fall morning.

Freshly issued Ukrainian "D" visa.

In the last episode of Adventures in De-Goggling, I laid out the principles behind my desire to reduce the amount of intrusive Google privacy violations in my life.

It’s hard to believe, but I’ve been in Kiev now for exactly one month.

Ukrainian work permit, hot off the presses My immigration lawyer texted me this morning with a pleasant surprise: Less than two weeks after the initial work permit application was filed, my Ukraine work permit has been issued!

I have been an enthusiastic user of Google’s products for well over a decade.

For the first time in over a decade, I’m free of all professional obligations and must answer the question “what next?”.