I smoke it. It's fun, entertaining and makes me want to write this blog real well. Of course I'm not actually writing this well since I'm high, but at least I get some good ideas to read and laugh about in the morning. Anyway

I'm writing a language learning program to learn Japanese. For a client. It's a really cool project since learning languages has this strange rearranging effect on the brain. And the project that teach you something about the world are always best! So here's a

For a long time I was programming on a 1280x1024 ThinkPad laptop. Looking back that seems crazy.. totally insane.. I could see pixels. Why didn't I invest in the main tool I use to make money? Why not make myself more productive? What a

I liked Gnome 3 since it launched. Yet it didn't provide a lot of customizability. Plus it was buggy and extensions lost support fast due to the changing API. A week back my "new" used laptop ThinkPad T470 started crashing with Xfce. It just

Paul Graham has famously said "Startup == Growth" . But why is it so important? And by "growth" I don't mean everyone has to be Uber - score billions of investmend, scale across the world, fight governments and finally potentially go bankrupt since the only thing

Spent a whole day researching how video streaming works and all I needed was to play a rather large video in the browser (400mb). There are Nginx tutorials, Node.js tutorials, whole media servers and npm packages. None of them are easy solutions. But

I know how to code, but I don't go deeper than I have to. I specialize in understanding what the client needs and then fulfilling those needs. Problem arises when deep technical knowledge is necessary for a deeply technical task. I don't have it.

I decided to start blogging again. Just for the kick of writing - I love doing it. Yet once I've written something I'd love for people to see it. My first article I shared on HN and didn't get any votes, which was totally

So what are you going to do with your life? Great question. Bad timing. At least for a graduate student. We're used to thinking of a career as a profession. Yet here I am - a thinker, programmer, "startupper", teacher, entrepreneur. I wouldn't say

I very much dislike sayings like "Do what you love" and "Follow you passion", because they lead you down the path of seeking pleasure and not taking on serious challenges. Or perhaps it leads you down the path of feeling sorry for yourself, because

Learning Elixir is quite a joy. Yet some simple things take a looong time to figure out. Here's one written out to help others like me. Our task is basically to convert a conf line like info_fields: %{custom_field: :string} to a UI

This form will be embeddable to multiple static websites! So you're only doing this once. Disclaimer: Once you've got this set up you need to figure out how to send emails yourself. Check the ending before you start this. The finished product will be

Okay so I'm trying to publish data on the bitcoin blockchain from bash using createrawtransaction and decoderawtransaction and here's what I've learned. Hopefully this will save someone from suffering. How to encode and decode hex strings and decimals in Node.js String to hex

I've copy-pasted some random parts of this awesome article. Everything is taken out of context and probably don't make sense to you if you don't read the original. It's just me writing down notes for myself. All proposed PoW-alternatives could be relabeled “obscured proof

So here's my reasoning for the design. Sharp corners are actually painful to reach for in the pocket. The corners are too round, but all I had to do was say "100 cards with rounded corners with my domain on it please"

This is what I call a startup! You gather your team and take 3 days to validate your idea. No code. No marketing. Nothing but interviews and Running Lean. Today is the second day. Our idea was a Manschool. Our hypothesis was that men

Disclaimer: I'm writing this to my friends who have no idea what a blockchain is so don't give me shit about how wrong the technicalities are. So yeah, bitcoin's price is super high at the moment with $10000 for just a single BTC. You're

I'm in Riga, enjoying my time with the lovely lady my friends don't see very often :) It's getting to the end of the first month of being unemployed. Cash is running out. The part of my last salary that I put into cryptocurrency has

Tallinn is noisy and it stinks. Loads of people everywhere. It's just like NYC. Except there people are actually friendly and frank. Couldn't get any sleep tonight. Not sure if it's the cars going by or the light shining into the window. Not used

There's a bunch of stories that we tell ourselves in the city. Stories we would like to believe are not true, but we go by them anyway. Feeling down? It's the winter darkness. Just take vitamin D and work out more. Darkness still getting

Today I dug a ditch. For drying out parts of this piece of land. The plan was to do computer work, but that seemed like a waste with such beautiful weather outside. There was a short term job offer for 50€/h in my

Leaving Tallinn was a great choice. I'll be returning every week to do koodikool.ee (it's a free code school). Anyway I was tying up loose ends in the city and every day was more stressful than the last. Somehow the tension builds up

As expected the novelty of freedom is wearing off. There is some anxiety attached to feeling like I have to do something. Perhaps it's just an Estonian thing. Planning to go to the countryside tomorrow. That should ease off the strange feelings. There's a

The day is over and I couldn't be more happy. Delayed a meeting I've been looking forward to tomorrow, but otherwise did a lot of stuff and that included going to the shop happy and spending too much like a true unemployed person. Well