Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Canceled my booking

As of January 1st I’m no longer employed by Booking.com and surely have some mixed feeling about that. But as the saying goes – “every cloud has a silver lining” so I’m looking in to the future with a strong optimism. New Year – New Beginnings. ;-)

Posted on January 10, 2021 at 12:04 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · One Comment
In: Life

Advent of Code 2020 experience

This year was the very first one when I was able to follow along with the daily Advent of Code 2020 small programming puzzles. “Small” is certainly a subjective word as I still have yet to finish part 2 of days 19 and 20 but overall it has been an exciting journey that gave me […]

Posted on December 26, 2020 at 9:59 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Christmas gifts 2020 already in house

It all started with a long awaited book by Brendan Gregg “BPF Performance Tools” that I decided to purchase directly from www.informit.com since amazon.de didn’t have it in store and it wasn’t clear at all when they would have one. Then another day I found this in my mail box: With a couple of cute […]

Posted on March 1, 2020 at 1:37 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Finished “Permanent Record”

Just turned the final page of Permanent Record and, not taking into account that I haven’t read a real physical book for quite a while, must say this one was thrillingly riveting. The world would’ve been undoubtedly a better place had we had more Snowdens among us.

Posted on February 1, 2020 at 5:25 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Thumbs up to creators of algoexpert.io

First of all – I’m not a shill but just an ordinary satisfied user of the service. Wonder if all stoogy sponsored testimonial starts like this ;-) Anyway, recently, I’ve been trying to improve my coding skills and found that just doing exercises on leetcode.com was not enough for me. I was definitely missing some […]

Posted on January 4, 2020 at 4:12 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Clawfinger memories 2018

This is from 25 years DDB show in Alkmaar, Netherlands.

Posted on December 25, 2018 at 8:57 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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When the past meets the future

The subject says it all.

Posted on June 9, 2018 at 6:24 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Yandex internal CTF 2017

This year CTF at Yandex brought not only the excitement and sleepless nights but a bunch of awesome swag.

Posted on December 6, 2017 at 7:40 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Linux, Security

No video during the flight

Don’t know what version of Linux they were running but looks like one of the following code paths triggered the issue: static int pca953x_read_regs(struct pca953x_chip *chip, int reg, u8 *val) { int ret; ret = chip->read_regs(chip, reg, val); if (ret < 0) { dev_err(&chip->client->dev, “failed reading register\n”); return ret; } return 0; } static int […]

Posted on November 13, 2017 at 10:09 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Linux

Another FreeBSD drop into the Digital Ocean

After several happy years with FreeBSD running in AWS I finally have switched to Digital Ocean. That happened a few days ago and was driven mainly by the lack of the console support which “aws ec2 get-console-output”, in my opinion, is certainly not. After the upgrade to FreeBSD 11 I found my instance unreachable and […]

Posted on November 9, 2016 at 7:30 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: FreeBSD, Life