Just found out that in 2013 I used Redis as a main database for all of my side projects (of highly varying type). Planning for a rewrite with SQLAlchemy/Postgres I always ended up passing a python distionary to hmset (pairing it with json.encode/decode).

That reminds me of trying to put Design Patterns to good use in Perl programs after reading GoF book. Steve Yegge gets it:

The only people who routinely get excited about Design Patterns are programmers, and only programmers who use certain languages. Perl programmers were, by and large, not very impressed with Design Patterns. However, Java programmers misattributed this; they concluded that Perl programmers must be slovenly, no good bachelors who pile laundry in their closests up to the ceiling.

Lately I’ve been crafting a small one-page app (job board) with all kinds of filters / faceted search. Inspired by this great talk with a nice Italian accent (slides and video) I took Flask / MongoDB and backbone.js for frontend. And was fully content with it until I found ElasticSearch that completely eliminated the need for api calls while filtering/searching: backbone can talk directly to elasticsearch server. ElasticSearch is awesome, can’t wait to tinker with it again on the next project.

me: our landing got the whole one signup, let’s come up with another idea dev: ((( landing doesn’t work, let’s make an mvp!

Save yourself some time, don’t use Google Analytics.

For those like me failing to properly configure ANAME records for Heroku here are some ip addresses digged from Heroku docs that can be used to configure CNAME:

@ A 174.129.212.2 @ A 75.101.145.87 @ A 75.101.163.44 www CNAME yourapp.herokuapp.com.

Sure, it’s a bad practice and should be used only in despair.

In March I luckily converted into a Founders Institute applicant from a crappy banner on a local startup community site. FI is an American startup accelerator franchisee that takes $1000 and 3.5% of your business in exchange for some solid startup advice packed into a four months course (weekly 2h+ lectures and huge home assignments).

The program fully met my expectations: lots of networking, lulz and a decent kick-in-the-ass. I teamed with some great guys and we are ready to drop our next bomb that will shutter the internet. The course was really tough (only 30% of applicants got to the end) but I managed to outsource some home assignmens to my cofounder and happily graduated.

Adeo (FI CEO) turned out as cocky as we expected him to be from his lectures dropping our dream team for not meeting his stupid legal requirements (the details are too boring to get into). Anyway (thanx Dima Rockityanski superhero efforts) we won the battle and luckily graduated.

The event took place this weekeend at Danylovskie Manufaktury, Moscow which is where the DM new office is located. Opening was held by DM CEO who’s name I forgot. The spectacular elevation of Duckie’s Friend, Russian writer Dmitry Evgenyevich Galkovsky was accompanied with tragical music that symbolised his hard path to SUCCESS.