Alex Rezvov Unscripted

What tl;dv Gave Me This week I connected my meeting recorder (tl;dv) to Claude and gave it one job: go through every call I'd had in the last month, around eighteen of them, and find every promise I'd made to someone that never made it into a single plan…

A Prediction, One Month Later This month Apollo confirmed a forecast I made a month ago.

"99% were 1 idea stretched across 300 pages.

The Scene "Find me marathon shoes for the next race.

"He will not bring in any plan of his own.

I added a fourth platform to the blog's publishing pipeline today.

Everyone uses AI coding agents differently.

A year ago I would have praised a project with a 200-page wiki, detailed onboarding guides, and architecture docs covering every microservice.

On February 15 I published Migrating from Ghost to Next.js: A Journey with Claude and Cursor.

I recently wrote about why my team chose Rust for LLM-assisted development.

A thread on the CTO Lunches mailing list a few weeks ago.

This is what I learned running a Rust team that builds with AI coding tools daily.

This article serves two purposes.

I wrote about the principle of parsimony in context engineering a week ago.

After deploying OpenClaw and documenting 16 incidents in one day, I kept getting questions about specific errors.

Alex: Write an article for my blog — your authored piece, I won't edit it.

We were building an analytics system for a large product.

The Principle of Parsimony in Context Engineering is a design rule: every element in the context, and every level of detail within each element, exists because it contributes to unambiguous task interpretation, enforceability of constraints, or result qua…

This post is for developers who already use LLM-based tools daily and have started noticing that "just write a better prompt" doesn't always scale.

Opus, Gemini, and ChatGPT walk into a bar.

In Migrating from Ghost to Next.js: A Journey with Claude and Cursor, I showed how I migrated my blog to Next.js Static Site Generation (SSG).

I've recently noticed a strange change in my workflow: I'm reluctant to build anything without Cursor.

On my ASUS ExpertBook B3404CVA running Kubuntu 24.04 (KDE Plasma 5.27.11, X11, Kernel 6.8.0-52-generic), I set the usual keyboard layout switcher via: /etc/default/keyboard: XKBLAYOUT="us,ru" XKBOPTIONS="grp:menu_toggle" Normally I set up layout switching…

On April 6, I ran the Belgrade Marathon, and I decided to record the experience as it happened — from a first-person perspective.

Recently, I received a Serbian residence permit smart card and wanted to explore its contents.

Visited Istanbul: Basilica Cistern, Hagia Sophia, a Bosphorus cruise, and other landmarks.

When I explore a specialized tool in a field where I am new, I expect it to be designed by experts with a deeper understanding than I could ever have.

Not every conflict is inherently bad.

In the world of development, there are times when professional collaboration crosses unacceptable boundaries.

During the negotiation process for your software development project, you managed to halve the proposed cost.

Founder mode is a trendy term that describes an approach where the founder remains deeply involved in the company’s management at every stage, even as it scales.

11 min read 213K views Development Management The Team Lead: A Versatile Role A team lead (aka senior developer or team leader) is one of those “specialists” whose responsibilities are often viewed differently.

3 min read 19K views Git GitHub Development Management Sometimes, you need to review the overall state of a repository’s code, such as when accepting code from other developers or joining a new project.

When working with a time & materials (T&M) payment model (i.e., payment based on actual work performed and resources used) in small development teams, several questions arise: how to track labor costs and other resources, calculate the payment amount for…

Recently, there was a discussion about how to deal with imposter syndrome.

Recently, a client asked how effective the proposed conceptual solution architecture was.

Recently, there was a discussion about how to act when doubts arise after making a decision.

A remarkable parable from ancient China tells the story of three physician brothers: the youngest, most renowned, treated visible illnesses; the middle brother addressed issues in their early stages; and the eldest, unknown to society, focused on preventi…

Ecodomen.ru is a volunteer-driven project with open-source code.

I saw several announcements in Belgrade asking for blood donors.

Amid the flood of articles like “How I Completed a 30-Day Course and Became a Programmer,” I’ve decided to share my experience: how I became a programmer after five years of dedicated learning—not counting school and university training.

In the middle of the January holidays, we took a short family trip to a small town.

7 min read 13K views Human Resource Management Project Management Development Management Lately, there’s been a lot of discussion about companies' mandatory remote work policies.

4 min read 7.7K views Last weekend marked the third Python developers’ conference in St.

5 min read 15K views Everything started when the Ministry of Communications allowed the use of the State Services Portal (Gosuslugi) for identifying and authenticating users on non-governmental websites.

2 min read 85K views Web Development Today, PyCharm suggested upgrading to IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition, which surprised me, to say the least.

Many Django tutorials explain how to quickly get a working debug server running (python manage.py runserver), but deployment in a production environment is often left unexplored or described using unnecessarily complex methods.