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Roman Imankulov 🇺🇦

@rdotpy

Stop the war

Promised a quick and dirty solution. Delivered on dirty. Failed on quick.


My customers asked for a faster horse. Instead, I created them a GPT interface app.


Monday procrastination trick — when creating @NotionHQ page, spend more time choosing emoji than writing content


If it hurts, do it more often. How we introduced feature flags at @BuildingRadar and what have we learned so far. Special thanks to @DevCycleHQ, the feature management provider of our choice. roman.pt/posts/feature-…


That fear of a connection timeout on the last step of a purchase while the browser is still loading the page.


Following the most exciting opportunity works well if you are an expert in a regular environment. Otherwise, you enthusiastically follow a random choice. Thinking aloud why HELL YEAH strategy may not be the best move and what to do about it. roman.pt/posts/say-mayb…


I wrote about my most popular posts of 2022. As I expected, "Don't Let Dicts Spoil Your Code," featured on Hacker News, was the top post. Surprisingly, my random notes on SQLAlchemy and Alembic came in second place. Check it out: roman.pt/posts/most-pop…


Just wrote a new blog post about my challenges of staying awake and sociable late at night. I wonder if it's just me, or you can relate. roman.pt/posts/survivin…


Finished "Come and see," a 1985 anti-war film on the Nazi occupation of Belarus. Frightening and realistic. No guts to watch it again. youtube.com/watch?v=zjIiAp…


Thanks for everything, @heroku. Removed my last app from the platform.


Current status: eating yogurt that my son brought back from school. According to my wife, yogurt kept in a warm backpack all day can hurt his stomach, and I work from home anyway.


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After using AWS for ~14 years, I've internalised a handful of design patterns that I try to apply to my own software. I'm keen to know if it's the same for other folks. Roughly: tags, IDs (thrice), limits, pagination. (I'm not going to use the thread emoji)


The best part about the Portuguese language and culture is that you don't say, "I drink coffee." Instead, you "take it" as you take medicine. Makes total sense.


Google's code review guide for authors and reviewers google.github.io/eng-practices/…


Treat unresolved comments in your tech and product specifications as tech debt. roman.pt/posts/resolve-…


Subtweeting a friend who's always sending links to chats without annotations. Even when you're confident of the quality and relevance of the content, please add a few words on what you found helpful. Personal touch brings 10x value.


Your feed may give you the impression that the war is over, but it is not. Luckily the missile was intercepted this time.

Одесса... Вокзал.... Страх...



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“I tell him to walk forward. He walks forward. I tell him, ‘On your knees.’ And I just shoot him in the head.” A Russian soldier spoke with a reporter from @istories_media — and confessed to murdering a Ukrainian civilian. occrp.org/en/investigati…


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