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Every month I publish essays, and every day I publish notes. I write about what I learned from 10 years of working in startups.

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37 from 26 Nov 2025 to 6 Oct 2026
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2026 35

  1. Account bans on Reddit
  2. Questions file
  3. How to find readers for a new blog
  4. Programming is art
  5. Developers want to write code by hand
  6. Why do developers continue to write code by hand?
  7. Balance in life
  8. Vibecoders and vibehackers
  9. What does GitHub’s security team even do?
  10. Problems with hourly and project-based pay
  11. Gurus
  12. How old are you?
  13. I discovered a large-scale malware distribution campaign on GitHub
  14. More bad advice from AI
  15. Price of dreams
  16. Reason behind a startup’s success 5th
  17. Comparison with others 4th
  18. What city do you live in? 29th
  19. I manage teams without a single call 24th
  20. I’m tired of talking to AI 22nd
  21. Saved by chance 20th
  22. Multilingualism in startups 17th
  23. Typical AI conversation 15th
  24. Millionaire 14th
  25. Urgent advice from AI 12th
  26. Apostrophe and quotes 11th
  27. Startup success probability 8th
  28. Incommunicable experience 7th
  29. I haven’t finished a single project 100% 6th
  30. The best is yet to come 4th
  31. Doubts about what I’ve done 3rd
  32. The hidden costs of gambling and adult businesses 8th
  33. AI will build your roadmap in 10 seconds 10th
  34. I live without deadlines or schedules 29th
  35. Management style doesn’t predict survival 18th

2025 2

  1. The limits of interview questions 26th
  2. Startups remember backups after the crash 22nd