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I am using a simple Jekyll theme minimal-mistakes[0] which I customized to suit my needs.

I'm hosting my blog[1] on GitHub Pages, the repo[2] is public so you can take a look and fork it if you find it interesting.

The setup is really simple, straightforward, and no-cost.

[0] - https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes

[1] - https://www.vladsiv.com/

[2] - https://github.com/VladimirSiv/VladimirSiv.github.io


My lack of knowledge has led me to only have heard of WordPress, but it feels cumbersome to operate, so I've been writing some 'draft' blogs locally. Thank you for letting me know about this solution; I've already started my first blog.


That's awesome! I am glad I helped. If you have any questions about the setup, please feel free to reach out. Also, when you get your blog up and running, let me know, I would like to check it out.


Amazing! Recently, I've done some digital art using Piet programming language, it kinda reminds of that, just with lines and dots. Awesome, keep up the good work!


Thanks! Perhaps you would like to share a link to your art? I mean, only if you are willing to give it in public domain…


You're welcome.

Yeah sure, thanks for asking. I actually do quite a lot of traditional art. Everything is on my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vlad__siv/

Third post is done using Piet programming language. If you run the code i.e. picture, using Piet interpreter, you'll get a link to my blog.


I think many suggest that we shouldn’t define our work and identity by our employer or specific job role. Instead, focus on building your expertise in the field and career in general.

This approach allows you to avoid becoming overly dependent on a single company, unlike those who are focused solely on advancing their careers within one organization by relying on trust and loyalty. Those individuals often find themselves vulnerable, risking their positions over minor inconveniences or corporate decisions that are beyond their control.

By building your identity as an expert in the field, you create a more stable foundation for your career, regardless of the dynamics within any specific company.


> we shouldn’t define our work and identity by our employer or specific job role. > By building your identity as an expert in the field

I get your point that diversifying the points of external identity validation makes you less dependent and this is a better position.

My question is about another strategy, to stop identifying/attaching etc. at all with what you do. And that is not illuminated to me.


> There are limits to how much of a good person you can be, those limits are set by the economic system we exist in.

> you should be upset about the system that is requiring those persons to act this way in order to stay afloat.

How would you change the system or modify the current situation in order to define new limits that are more, let's say, humane?

In the article, there is an example of an ex-Google employee that got fired via email, he couldn't say "Bye" to his colleagues after 20 years of working with them. That doesn't seem like a system with reasonable limits.


> In the article, there is an example of an ex-Google employee that got fired via email, he couldn't say "Bye" to his colleagues after 20 years of working with them. That doesn't seem like a system with reasonable limits.

Until there is a system to easily weed out the people that go ballistic when being laid off, cutting off access is completely fine.

If you want to keep in touch with people outside of work, exchange personal emails.


> Until there is a system to easily weed out the people that go ballistic when being laid off, cutting off access is completely fine.

There’s literally whole continents where this isn’t an issue. If it is an issue in yours the problem is not the layoffs.


> Until there is a system to easily weed out the people that go ballistic when being laid off, cutting off access is completely fine.

Until there is a system to easily weed out the people who carry dynamite in their asses, anal cavity checks are completely fine.


That’s an oddly appropriate username.


"How would you change the system" is an above human level question. Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. The same for capitalism. It is an illusion that it is easy to change a system in which millions of people participate.

The economic forces as painted here are very real but cruelty is optional. It is not very expensive to give an employee the time to say goodbye to colleagues.


> Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sure but he had a good reason to conflate all forms of democracy as if there were no difference between them or ways to give more power to the people in, say, UK's form of democracy. Replacing first-past-the-post voting for example wouldn't require abandoning the entire system of government.

> The same for capitalism.

Sure but again there are important differences between laissez faire capitalism and a social market economy and yet this is used to justify reforming the latter into closer and closer approximations of the former. This also ignores that while the economy at large is clearly some form of "capitalism", communities otherwise operate on more non-capitalist patterns of behavior (e.g. buying rounds at the bar among friends, borrowing tools to your neighbors, BYOBs/potlucks).

Even interactions involving currency (remember markets and currency alone don't define capitalism) don't have to be transactional or profit optimized or be defined in terms of ownership and servitude. Of course things like the gig economy, consumerism and "hustle culture" are built around "capitalism"-ifying those non-capitalist interactions by reframing them as transactional or business opportunities - the most blatant example probably being the widely ridiculed genre of blog post a la "what breaking up with my partner taught me about being a hiring manager".


I recently used embedded Lua within Nginx to alter requests on a reverse proxy using Lua scripting.

It's great that Lua can be seamlessly integrated wherever we need it, allowing for the extensions and implementation of custom logic. It's also popular in gaming and often used to develop different custom game mods.


IIRC, Lua in Nginx is deprecated in favor of the NodeJS module. I see more and more Nginx extensions written in JS, for SAML authentication, HTTP ACME challenge, etc...


Do you mean njs? Or is there a really a NodeJS module?

https://nginx.org/en/docs/njs/


Yes, njs. My dumb mind expanded the "n" to "node".


It's maybe deprecated by the official Nginx support, but there are other projects and organizations that are offering Lua scripting with Nginx with all kinds of extensions and libraries.

See OpenResty website[0] and Github repo[1].

[0] - https://openresty.org/en/

[1] - https://github.com/openresty/


Great article, thanks for sharing!


https://vladsiv.com

Writing about Data Engineering, ML, and AWS solutions with some focus on numeric calculations.


Unfortunately you don’t have a rss feed to follow… can you implement it?


You're right, it's missing the RSS feed. I wanted to add it but the last couple of months were really tough personally. Hopefully, I'll get some time soon to address it. Thanks for taking the interest!


As they should. As far as I can see, the second they ban the third party services, they will start pushing ads, hard. You'll be stuck with their official app and their website will use anti ad-blocking tech like YT is testing right now. So at the end, it's all about getting more money on the back of the community.


I would also like to know :D


Thanks! This is great, I'll definitely check it out in-depth.


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