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Starting a Portrait Photography Business
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get my photography side hustle off the ground. My initial assumption was simple: people are always …
Photography vs Programming: a Minimalist Perspective
As I build my photography side hustle while working full-time as a software engineer, I keep returning to one idea: minimalism. Both fields pull me in …
What Would You Do When You Retire?
We’ve all heard the classic question: “What would you do if you won a million dollars?” It’s a fun daydream, but let’s be honest, most of us know …
LLMs and an old dev
A lot of developers seem to be afraid of generative AI and LLMs because it may replace their jobs. But as an older developer who sometimes have a hard …
Photography in the age of Generative AI
Generative AI has made my job as a software engineer much easier, but it’s also a bit scary. The question everyone is asking is whether AI will …
Parenting is hard
Only when you have wrong expectations. It is so easy to know what is right action but sometimes so hard to do it. Ayden is having rough morning. Well …
How to backup Kubernetes' Config
The easiest solution seems to be following script by Stackoverflow user, Timothy Perez : <pre …
Kubernetes not passing full path to Nodejs
I spent hours troubleshooting why url path was getting stripped from requests in our Nodejs/Expressjs based app. The reason was this line in …
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
I love these kind of posts. Here are some interesting ideas for side-gig: Books. There are quite a few books there, books for babies, books about iOS …
ROI when using your primary residence as rental too
Calculating rough ROI on rentals is easy: For example, let’s say one buys $500,000 single family home and rent it out for $3000 per month. Since …
Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?
Recent thread on Hacker News, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29360119, was very interesting for me especially since I turned 40 this year. …
think hard
Other day while putting Ayden to sleep, he looked like as if he was intensely thinking. I asked him, “Are you thinking something?” …
Wealth Lab Pro Earning Play Screener
This is a quick script that I use to find options to buy or sell. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using …
Oculus Quest 2 Review
I was debating between PS5 and Quest 2 (Affiliate link), and yes it is like comparing apples and oranges, but in the end Quest 2 won. I will likely …
New Career Direction
Today Ayden said, “Jack (his friend) wants to be firetruck driver and I will be ambulance driver. Jack will put out fires. I will take people to …
What do you want to be when you grow up
Yesterday, after I picked up Ayden from his daycare, he said, he didn’t know what he wants to be. I guess they asked him this question in his …