Boise FHAT event recap. Was it really worth it?
There was some problem with the Delta plane that was supposed to take me back home to NYC. It was so bad that we had to switch planes. New plane required the new crew to fly it… Naturally, that whole process caused a few extra hours of delay at the Salt Lake City airport. …
30 days update
Wow, it’s been a month since I started my new journey. Feels like I’ve been doing it forever. The main reason why I started making changes in my pretty comfortable life was this deep feeling inside of me… feeling that I could do much more than just comfortably drifting in the 9 to 5 mediocrity. …
Unexpected turn of events. The Viral Video Party. Day 29
Running a bit late guys. In the morning I went surfing and barely had time to write anything. Probably will do the same tomorrow as the surf report looks very promising.
Yesterday we met with my brother to discuss our funnels ideas. …
Shared hosting vs VPS vs Cloud services. Which way to go? Day 28
When I started my first online business about 12 years ago, I didn’t know anything about hosting. All I wanted was to publish my tiny PHP website to the internet. At the time I was living in Brest (Belarus), a small town in eastern Europe. …
Day 27 – WordPress backup failed? My simple 3 step battle tested strategy for every website owner
“What do you mean you have no backups?? My responsibility?! But I thought it’s your responsibility as my hosting provider to do my WordPress backups?! I don’t care about your server, I just want my business to be restored as fast as possible.”
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Day 26 – A letter to my friend
His new home office was probably bigger than my entire house. There was pretty much everything in it: TV on the wall, couch with wireless keyboard, two other huge monitors in different places (I have no idea how he uses those), latest MacBook Pro with this new fancy touch sensor and another external monitor for it, …
Day 25 – Magical Chi machine finally arrived
If you’ve been following me on Twitter (make sure you do, otherwise you may miss my cutting edge stuff again!), you probably saw a box that arrived at my doors yesterday:
It finally arrived! Bonus points for those who will guess what's inside pic.twitter.com/rMPt9agwgy
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Day 24 – How can you become a web developer from scratch? Here is my story…
I was happily sleeping on my air mattress in my tiny 10x10ft room when my phone started to ring. At the time there were like 3 contacts in my address book – my brother and a few other Russian-speaking friends.
Remember I was selling pictures on the Times Square for about a year after I came to the United States and I had to get the phone so we could periodically call each other to check on cops. …
Day 23 – Simple breathing exercises that I do every morning
Good morning everyone! Observing sunrise as I type my update and looks like it’s going to be another awesome day! Today I woke up almost by myself (5.30am of course), which was a bit surprising.
Have you ever heard of Icemen or Wim Hoff? …
Day 22 – Game of Thrones end of season celebration, plus a few useful takeaways!
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. …