Learning music and the guitar as the never-ending failure.

TLDR; I’ve spent 10 years trying to become good at guitar and music, failed at it almost completely, and now give a last chance before understanding, that the whole stuff is just not my cup of tea. Preface I strongly believe that people nowadays do not share enough the ways they fail in life. Everywhere you look you will see the history of success, social media feeds will make you feel bad for sitting the evenings in front of your TV watching that new anime series. ...

January 1, 2024 · 11 min · 2329 words · Andrei Sviridov

How This Blog Is Built

I did not really put a lot of effort into making this project and composed it out of scraps I literally had at home and with the help of tools I already knew and some new things I wanted to try out more in the past. Hardware I have a server rack under my TV with a terabyte of storage, 8-core ARM CPU, a neural processing unit, and the network switch. ...

December 28, 2023 · 4 min · 837 words · Andrei Sviridov

Why yet another blog?

Really, why? Hey there. It’s been a long time (as of this moment in Dec. 2023 ~10 years) I’ve been a software developer and throughout these 10 years I’ve been wanting to have my own blog and website. The biggest problem for me was always the thought that there’s nothing for me to write about that can be of interest to the people outside of my life. Everything’s been written and for every minor and major topic there’s already an expert in it, writing lengthy explainatory posts or large tech company blogs having enough resources for their articles to be professionally written, polished and reviewed. ...

December 26, 2023 · 2 min · 419 words · Andrei Sviridov