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Andrei Sviridov
Staff engineer, Warsaw
Notes, observations, projects. Whatever interests me.
Deep dives into Linux, containers and Python internals, a homelab, and reviews of the technical books I read - plus the occasional personal story.
LATEST
10 of 42Building a Software Factory draft
Fifteen days, 1453 commits, and almost none of them typed by me: how a Polish learning app got built by a pipeline of agents.
On quitting the nicotine addiction draft
My head hurts badly, I have a migraine. I know it’s because I’ve been upper-decking the whole day and ran through the whole pack of what’s intended to last a couple of days in less than one. I want to feel the high, but I know that it’s the point where I will feel nothing, maybe due to my blood vessels constricted too much to deliver the poison, or maybe due to a biological limitation of how much the stymulus neurons may have. It doesn’t matter, I feel terrible, I long for what will make me feel even worse.
Good Agentic Development Seems Slow draft
Getting a reliable pipeline with coding agents is not fast and not really fun.
Building a Self-Hosted Chess Blunder Trainer
When you cannot learn to play well - make a product to get better.
How I Lost 30 Kgs in a Year
No-BS story of what worked for me to lose a lot of weight and hopefully avoid regaining it.
My Stance on AI in Programming
Disclaimer All of the thoughts below are personal opinions, they’re not sponsored ones (I’D SURELY LOVE BEING SPONSORED but this blog has somewhat like 2 readers), the AI usage here is close to 0, with the exception of the grammar and style review, as the author can’t type 4 words without making a grammatical mistake. A lengthy intro AI is polarizing. People are in love-hate relationship with it and there are obvious reasons for that: fear of jobs being taken away from humans, enormous amount of AI-slop in every media format possible, endless AI-first solutions for non-existing problems, VCs pouring billions into AI solutions, endless AI-written linkedin posts about the bright future of AI, you all know it, it’s fatiguing.
State of Homelab 2026
Evolution of a self-hosting hobby: from clueless to amateur.
A Bit on Personal Finance and Python
A short note on my financial tracking journey
Gunicorn Timeout Is Not What You Think It Is
Gunicorn timeout is not a request timeout, it's the timeout of the whole worker not being responsive.
SERIES
Anatomy of Graceful Shutdown
5 parts · 2024–2025
A comprehensive series exploring graceful shutdown patterns across different technologies and platforms, from Linux signals to Kubernetes orchestration.