Nikolay Konovalov

Stop doing this, people. The working tactic is this: - Find 2-3 companies that more or less always hire or at least hire during year - Spend 4-12 weeks preparing project / demo / anything that can prove you spent all this time and effort that they can use, a useful work that everyone from their team can understand and accept as valuable - Before application you should be already friends with some people in the company, go figure out - Application + proof of work they must see / expect - IF you don’t get job at this point then clearly you’re in the wrong business Sending resumes are dead. Send proof of work.

Thank you @Snowden This is such a great ending not just to the talk (youtube.com/watch?v=zMG6aRZh…) but also to my own personal story, which was being afraid to make mistakes... for 17 years. Once I realized mistakes are inherently human, I was finally able to tell myself: "You have done well today, Nik. You can rest. Come again tomorrow." Not being able to rest for 17 years because nobody told you that you did a good job and you can rest and come tomorrow. Because you lost most of your family and you thought there is nobody to support you, and you have to carry on. So you made this promise to them that you will continue on living and experience things they couldn't no matter what. And all of this was just me making a mistake. A promise I could not keep. And even responding to a private message from a stranger back in 2015 was a mistake. That mistake is now the most important human on the entire planet for me. My spouse. The realization that the most important decision I made in my life — typing on a keyboard and pressing "Enter" as a response — was essentially a mistake I made along the way. And it was the best thing that could ever happen to me. To finally experience mutual love, when I almost gave up on it. Trying to find it in Moscow for two years, only to find disappointment. And to think I could have just ignored it back then and continue living alone, searching for that perfect person to come into my life, trying to avoid making a mistake... It just makes me emotional for some reason, I can't explain it. > "There are no mistakes, only happy accidents." I was making mistakes all these years while thinking I was not. And it also kept my mind in a cage I designed myself. Not able to relax after work, stopped playing video games, watching anime, practicing guitar. I was consumed by greed, by career, by making more and more money to "retire early and play video games all day", by getting better and better as a developer, and solving all the problems life kept throwing at me. I am the literal Rambo. Go watch it. There isn't a problem I couldn't possibly solve. I had to survive no matter the cost. But in the end, I realized I am no different than John. He lost pretty much everyone, like myself. He only had Mayor by the side. And so at the end of the movie, cornered, devastated — he finally admits he is only but a human, and then cries like a kid. And that's exactly what happened to me this May 2026, but instead of a movie, it was my spouse's birthday. And yes, we watched the movie together afterwards☺️ My present to her was a timelapse of a drawing I made — our first contact on Web, with her message seen on my laptop. I attached it to the post. You can see how many mistakes I made before sketch is complete. This was my first time ever drawing a complete image entirely out of my head. "It is the best birthday gift I ever received", — she said. 2026 is also the year I bought MIDI keyboard. My dad always wanted to play one but mistakes he made in the past prevented him to ever try. He was a great dad but made a lot of terrible decisions. Fortunately, I learned a lot from them. I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs. Honestly, if I did with my health condition and 24/7 sitting at home, I'd be long gone. I am not gonna make same mistakes I've seen happen in my family. I will make my own mistakes☺️ And I am going to share them all with you, so everyone can learn from it. Thank you. For understanding.

You don’t ever ask LLM how to prevent a mistake by adding an instruction to prompt. It’s like asking people to not push code to prod on Friday. You just don’t. What actually works? Ruby script. Python script. Rust script. TypeScript. ClojureScript. Haskell. Kotlin. Lisp. Lua. Brainfuck. X86_64 assembly. PHP. Ada. Prolog. Elixir. Golang. Matlab. C. D. F#. AutoHotkey. Bash. Make. Strudel. Java. Perl. Scala. Bend2. Fortran. Smalltalk. SQL. Microsoft Excel. Visual Basic. Pascal. Verilog. Zig. If you can measure the problem, you can describe it. The process is known as programming. The result of that process is a set of states and state transitions. Or, simply, The code🔥✍️

For all the Engineers, aspiring to become Big in Data… Remember the humble beginnings. Remember… The small data. youtu.be/eDr6_cMtfdA?is=CTi3… ☺️ 🔥✍️ (thanks @krazamtv )

People are finding some malware in popular packages. And yet we have this sitting for I don’t know how many years… github.com/aws-solutions github.com/aws Who should I ping? @awscloud ?

What do you think is going on here? I'm a bit tired to expose AI bullshit on the internet, but this one is interesting because it talks about anti-AI stuff, which I'm seeing first time ever🤣 I don't believe this character "House of El" is real. Here are my red flags: - The "character" lives exclusively on Tiktok, YouTube, own website - If you do just a tiny bit of research using Web Archive, Reddit, Google, you can see something interesting, but I'm not gonna hint you what exactly should you look at, you should do your own research and make your own conclusions - What is "she" selling? Assume it's a genuine human recording actual footage. Why bother spreading this info, why bother at all? PhDs + finance background have nothing to do these days except make YT videos and write books? Where are the papers? Why bother? Why? - Why? - Again, why? - What is the point of uploading 4K video upscaled from 1080p? Yes, I know you can do this magic trick with YT where you upscale 1080p->1440p, and your 1080p gets a better av1/vp9 encode, but 4K is overkill to do that. Try switching 1080p/4K, and see if you can spot difference. Then go to LTT and try doing same there. Notice difference. - If there are comments under video telling you something is off, is this to gaslight you, or is something genuinely wrong with the material? Why bother commenting about this at all? (Apparently Deepseek found those commments even though I didn't ask for it specifically☺️) - What is going on with timestamps on YT? When you download it with yt-dlp, it says April 2026. On a video dated June 2025... I've seen few cases like this and I don't understand why would youtube re-encode video almost 1 year later, do they just throw around compute like that? Why? Any YT experts? - See WebArchive calendar, this is THE pattern I see all the time with AI-generated content / synthetic personas My agent is currently doing some crazy shit around detecting 1080p->4K upscales, I'll post everything we can figure out. For science☺️