Yesterday our awesome tech team at HBO celebrated the end of another spectacular Game of Thrones season. It was epic, right? You probably didn’t know, but every Sunday for the past six weeks a bunch of folks, including site reliability engineers, of course, were working hard to make sure everyone across the globe could watch the premiere on the wide array of different devices and platforms. …
Month: August 2017
Day 21 – Set your goal and do the first step. How I created my first resume.
I just learned today that olive oil production date is one of the key factors affecting the quality of the product. Top notch product is also bottled into the dark glass as the sunlight can damage the oil. No wonder why the bottle I bought the other day at Whole Foods was on sale… …
Day 20 – Lets get back to the past…
It’s a rainy day today and my mood is a bit cloudy as well. Maybe cloudy is not the right word because I actually like the rain.
When I won my green card and came to the US about 12 years ago, my first job was to sell pictures on the Times Square. …
Day 19 – The Super Power of Visualization
It’s Monday 8.42pm as I write this update. I was supposed to write it in the morning, but then I went surfing and barely even made it to the train to work. Then I was thinking that I would find some time to write at the office, …
Day 18 – Get really uncomfortable before you get really comfortable
Three days in a row I went to sleep around 2am essentially destroying my 5.30am wakeup routine. Yesterday after McGregor’s fight I didn’t even set the alarm clock and let myself take as much sleep as my body needed. Does it make me a failure? …
Day 17 – Totally confused
No, Chinese people don’t eat same chines food we eat in US. People in Mexico don’t eat burritos, that’s American thing. Yes, they do! No, they don’t. Fruits are bad for you. Fruits are perfect, they contain fructose and not sugar. Bulshit, still a sugar! …
Day 16 – Just fucking breathe
Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned. Things happen, shit hits the fan – you need to be flexible and learn to live in a moment.
I was planning to go sleep around 10pm yesterday, but instead I ended up in the bed only around 1.30am. …
Day 15 – When a coder hires a coder to do the coding for him
If you’ve been following my writing, more specifically Day 13 – Writing code is easy, launching the project is not you know that I decided to hire a developer to implement WordPress plugin idea I had in mind.
There were few reasons for that. …
2 Weeks Update
Late show today guys. It’s 8.56pm as I’m writing this update. Dropped off my wife and my little boy at the airport a few hours earlier. They are flying over Atlantic ocean as I type these words which is pretty cool!
I’m truly amazed by my wife’s courage to handle 2 years old by herself on a plane for 8 hours! …
Day 13 – Writing code is easy, launching the project is not
When I started my online store about 15 years ago, I didn’t care about server configuration or performance of my code.
I think that was actually a good thing, otherwise, I would start to over engineer things and would never launch anything.
Initially, …
