Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL 14 Jun 2025 on Peter Vernigorov’s blog A couple months ago I noticed that LinkedIn now has a few simple games . They’re not much to write home about, but I really enjoy playing Queens. This week I saw two posts about solving the Queens game programmatically. Both were quite interesting to me, so I thought this was a good opportunity to also solve the game in my…
Contributing to Gemini ecosystem 29 May 2021 on Peter Vernigorov’s blog About a year ago I found out about Gemini protocol . For those who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a new Internet protocol (which together with its accompanying gemtext format) aims to build an alternative “web, stripped right back to its essence”. It appealed to my love for minimalism and I built a few things for its ecosystem.…
Spot instances for personal servers 23 May 2021 on Peter Vernigorov’s blog 2023 Update I have since moved from AWS to Hetzner as it is significantly cheaper than spot instances on AWS, at least for the workload that I have. 2 instances ( t3.nano and t3.medium ) with an EBS volumes were replaced by a single CAX11 (2x arm64, 4GB RAM). Summary Use spot instances for personal projects to save ~70%…