For quite some time I had a desire to switch to Mac / OSX, due to several reasons. Mainly, the *nix environment always attracted me, Apple’s hardware quality and the general feeling of OSX. Lots of friends (developers) around me had Macs, and the tutorials from developers I enjoy watching were mostly recorded on Macs. Yes, there’s GNU/Linux, and I used it occasionally, but for reasons mentioned later, I couldn’t switch to only using it. Half a year ago I switched jobs, moved from Windows to Mac only, being forced to relearn many things about my daily computer usage. Read more

I’m a huge fan of Hugo - not only as a Gopher but because I feel quite comfortable working with it - even though I work full-time as a backend developer and I’ve got no working experience with frontend - just some basic html/css/js. After deciding to start a blog, I searched for the simplest theme possible and decided to go with Hemingway. Unfortunately, Tanksuzuki, the developer of Hemingway, abandoned the theme and doesn’t respond to issues and pull requests for nearly a year, even though he’s being active on Github. I did plenty of changes on this theme and decided to share it with the community. Read more

There are many Android power users out there thinking of switching to iPhone. Or at least how would the switch affect them and their daily phone usage. What’s better in the Apple ecosystem and what’s worse? As a power user, I’ve taken the step myself to see whether I could use an iPhone as a daily driver for some time. Below are my observations and experiences of this switch. Read more

I wanted to start my blog, again, for quite some time. I used to run few blogs of mine quite successfully several years ago, but I stopped blogging once I started working full-time. My previous employer wasn’t very supportive of working from home (things like blogging, working on OSS or for profit), so I slowly complied with that and lived on, even though I never agreed with that policy for so many reasons. Read more