Quick and dirty hack to automate tedious expense report task
Why spend 10 minutes doing a tedious data entry task when you can spend 15 minutes getting an LLM to do it instead? ...more
Why spend 10 minutes doing a tedious data entry task when you can spend 15 minutes getting an LLM to do it instead? ...more
Air raid alarms happen all the time in Kyiv. I've evolved a protocol for responding to them that seeks to balance safety with the need to actually live, work, and sleep. ...more
Daily life in the center of the capital is probably not what you'd expect for a country in the midst of a brutal war for survival. I wrote down a few observations from my perspective as an expat living in Kyiv. ...more
Approximately 15 years ago, I was running the engineering team at AppAssure Software, working on what was at the time a cutting-edge new feature: the ā¦ ...more
Iām shocked and horrified to realize that it was almost FIVE long years ago that I celebrated the receipt of my Ukraine temporary residence permit! Wā¦ ...more
The Rust Foundation ruffled a lot of feathers when they posted a draft Trademark Policy document that isā¦well..letās say itās heavy-handed to an extenā¦ ...more
Both of my US Senators, Scott and Rubio, do not allow their constituents to write messages longer than 3000 character (for Rubio) or 2000 characters (ā¦ ...more
Disclaimer Iām writing this post as an honest and frank description of my experience coding in Rust these last six months. Itās just, like, my opinioā¦ ...more
Official Ukraine Residency Permit Obtaining this residency permit was not complicated, and the entire process startā¦ ...more
By now the major Western media outlets will have reported on the incident in the Azov Sea in which Russian forces fired upon and captured three Ukrainā¦ ...more
Brand new, modern, efficient Passport Center in Ukraine (photo by Bogdan Gandziuk) I had heard many horror stories from eā¦ ...more
Today I awoke to a very cold fall morning. At least, cold by my standards. -3Ā° C probably isnāt a big deal to the cold-hardened locals here, but I camā¦ ...more
Freshly issued Ukrainian "D" visa. Obtaining this type "D" visa was much easier than expected, and opens the door to tempā¦ ...more
In the last episode of Adventures in De-Goggling, I laid out the principles behind my desire to reduce the amount of intrusive Google privacy violatioā¦ ...more
Itās hard to believe, but Iāve been in Kiev now for exactly one month. Time as flown by, too fast for my taste in fact. It seems like so little has bā¦ ...more
Ukrainian work permit, hot off the presses My immigration lawyer texted me this morning with a pleasant surprise: Less than two weeks ā¦ ...more
I have been an enthusiastic user of Googleās products for well over a decade. I eagerly gobbled up Gmail beta invite codes during the closed beta to ā¦ ...more
For the first time in over a decade, Iām free of all professional obligations and must answer the question āwhat next?ā. ...more