Alexander Solovyov

@asolovyov
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House elf of simplicity and practicality.
Sitehttps://solovyov.net
Telegramhttps://t.me/bitethebyte
Githubhttps://github.com/piranha
Github has updated interface some time ago and now "Download file" button is not a link! It's a freaking button, so you can't easily copy a link and then download it in a terminal somewhere. 🤦‍♂️
Just got an email from Livejournal saying I've registered there back in 2004. First thought: wow that was long ago. Second thought: wtf, what took me so long? 🤣
Ahhh and Bluesky… not particularly enjoying that one though.

Oky, I’ve removed Apollo today (let the reddit go already). Along with twitter not having a client on my phone this means that only Mastodon is present for text procrastination on my phone.

Idk if this will result in at least some posts here but we will see. :)

I tried Ice Cubes and it doesn't want to connect my account. Mammoth sucks at tracking "read" position. Ivory seems good, but I'm hesitant of adding yet another subscription. :(

https://mastodon.social/@hynek/109930843713021835

@isagalaev btw, it's funny, but I have to tell you: it was your blog that got me started on Django and then it was your post about Clojure that made me think "ok I can try another Lisp" after being disappointed with elisp and common lisp. Now I made whole company write Clojure. :)

Your writing shaped my career quite a bit it seems. :)

Interesting thing, obvious in retrospect, but absolutely unexpected just a week ago: we were doing selects with "distinct on" from pg. This week we've cleaned duplicates from the db and distinct is now unnecessary. This lowered 99% API response time from 2.2s to 0.2s. Median time is almost the same, but the long tail is now much shorter. :)
So I'm trying to get my notes/docs/whatever under control, because I have Apple Notes, Evernote, Quip, Notion.so and Todoist. Failing pretty hard so far. :\