Tech blog about the boring stuff.

When you cannot learn to play well - make a product to get better.

No-BS story of what worked for me to lose a lot of weight and hopefully avoid regaining it.

Disclaimer All of the thoughts below are personal opinions, they’re not sponsored ones (I’D SURELY LOVE BEING SPONSORED but this blog has somewhat like 2 readers), the AI usage here is close to 0, with the exception of the grammar and style review, as the…

Evolution of a self-hosting hobby: from clueless to amateur.

A short note on my financial tracking journey

Gunicorn timeout is not a request timeout, it's the timeout of the whole worker not being responsive.

A short story of how flexibility of langchain becomes its weak spot.

Deep dive into Prometheus graceful shutdown: analyzing the run.Group pattern, TSDB persistence, scrape manager coordination, and multi-component synchronization

Deep dive into Celery graceful shutdown and architecture with RabbitMQ/AMQP: in-depth analysis across four projects (Celery, Kombu, py-amqp, billiard)

Tracking how application shuts down within the modern kubernetes environment

Deep dive into nginx's graceful shutdown implementation: signal handling, master-worker coordination, connection cleanup, and shutdown timeouts

A summary of reading: Another Fine Myth series.

How to spend several hundred bucks on a new generation of headphones and stay unhappy due to bad engineering and UX.

A short review of the jaw-breaking hardcore sci-fi novel by Peter Watts.

Creating a Sudoku solver using neural networks having no prior on how to solve sudokus algorithmically or what to do with neural networks.

A review of a very dull and boring book.

A short exploration of what Docker, containerd, runc are today.

A deeper look into the world of graceful shutowns in Linux processes: exploration of how signals processing works.

Blog updates: 19.02.2024.

A summary of reading: Are Your Lights on.

A small review of the "Broadcast" book by Liam Brown

An exploration of how I thought to be effective, tried various systems like GTD, Zettelkasten, Pomodoro, failed in it, and what I came up with.

My framework of conducting quality code-reviews.

Issue with python multiprocessing mode, Django and its tests OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY magic variable meaning

New purchase Recently I’ve purchased a paper book.

If you’re looking for a way to spend several evenings I have something to recommend to you.

TLDR; I’ve spent 10 years trying to become good at guitar and music, failed at it almost completely, and now give a last chance before understanding, that the whole stuff is just not my cup of tea.

I did not really put a lot of effort into making this project and composed it out of scraps I literally had at home and with the help of tools I already knew and some new things I wanted to try out more in the past.

Hey there, I’m Andrew.

Really, why?