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Challenge Is Gone

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:08:28 +0600
All my life I have consciously and unconsciously strived for different things. Consciously, I pursued the goals society set for me: make money, be useful, have children, and so on.

My unconscious goal was always the same: to challenge myself and try to succeed. It might seem that my conscious and unconscious goals complement each other perfectly, and in part that's true. The only question is which challenges I chose for myself.

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Cloudflare Email Routing

Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:08:23 +0600
TIL that you can use Cloudflare Email Routing [1] to set up free email on your domain. It basically routes from [email protected] to your private [email protected] for free.

So you don't have to pay for Gmail for business until your business makes money :-)

Here is a step-by-step guide [2] by Gulshan Kumar.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/
[2] https://www.gulshankumar.net/create-a-free-business-email-with-cloudflare-email-routing/

Yet Another Ruby Parser

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:02:18 +0600
In the morning I thought:

> Why rubocop is so slow? Is it because of the parser? Should I look into it?

In the evening I found https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/

> Is it a sign?

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:25:48 +0600
Either this is a too simple thought that is framed too complicated, or I did not understand anything.

Most likely, I didn't understand anything.

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Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:24:57 +0600




Religious Feelings

Wed, 4 Jan 2023 15:18:28 +0500
He was a dark-haired, tall (about two meters tall) man with a loose beard. He sported black pants and a black T-shirt with an inscription that I did not remember.

He was sitting in the seat next to me on the plane. As he showed his phone to his friend across the aisle, his hand almost touched my nose. It didn't annoy me. It was either my fatigue from the events that had recently happened to me, or his athletic physique. Muscular people taller than me seem like giants to me, and I automatically try not to show them any disrespect.

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Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:16:32 +0500
> At this point I'm convinced Satoshi Nakamoto was actually a public administration professor trying to teach kids why financial institutions have the rules in place that they do.
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> Given enough time, the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place

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Mon, 7 Nov 2022 13:58:36 +0500
It seems that computers have finally learned to recommend music to people

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