Trailer: Linkin Park Week 2025
In just under a week, I've been to LP shows in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, Canada. Still can't believe all of it actually did, in fact, happened for real (no kidding!).
Rosnovsky Park™
Blog by Art Rosnovsky, a software engineer, about technology, hiking, books, movies, and other things.
Latest posts
The AI Chasm is Widening
I've been trying to think about the good sides of 'AI', but the more I think about, the more I realize that it will only worsen existing inequities.
No Kings Day 2025
What a local installment of the No Kings Day parade looked like in a small(ish) town in WA.
Is this journaling?
🐻 with me, I'm trying something here.
Session #3
Some videos, songs, pictures and such. Presented without comments.
2024: a Year in Review
Another year is in the books, it's time for the latest installment of my "Year in Review" series. This year sucked in so many ways, but there were a few bright spots as well.
Live music in my life
Since I've moved out of Russia in 2011, I've been to dozens of concerts. Just wanted to have a record of the shows I liked, mostly for my own reference.
Linkin Park is BACK! 🤘👨🎤🎸
After 7 long years, Linkin Park is back with their new lead singer Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara, new song "Emptiness Machine", new album "From Zero" (out on November 15), and a new tour.
Life Update September 2024
The summer is almost over, time to reflect on how it all went. I hiked a bit, worked a lot, read even more, went to a couple of concerts, traveled a bit. All in all, it wasn't a bad summer.
Life Update June 2024
New job, new games, new projects. Everything is new, but somehow it all feels the same.
Exploring Astro DB
Astro just released Astro DB, a fully managed database integrated with the framework itself. I created a views counter for my blog, and loved the experience.
Building astro-mastodon library
I really wanted to embed some of my Mastodon posts right into my blog posts, but there were no good options to do so. Well, I've built one.
Migrating Mastodon instance to Kubernetes
I run a small Mastodon instance, and recently I've migrated it from a Docker container in Digital Ocean to my own Kubernetes cluster on Hostinger VPS. Here's how I did it.
Resume automation
Being recently laid off, I expect to send out hundreds of job applications in coming weeks and months. Why not make working with resume updates as convenient as possible?
Using GPT as a rubber ducky
There's this popular practice among engineers to talk through problems out loud. When there's nobody around (or you don't want to interrupt others), this practice calls for talking to a rubber duck toy. Well, I found a great rubber ducky in ✨sparkling autocomplete✨ AKA generative pre-trained transformers.
2023: a Year in Review
Another year is coming to an end. This one didn't feel like it was too long, which is good, I guess. Time to count the chickens (or something like that).
Moving away from Vercel to Kubernetes
After years and years of hosting this blog on Vercel, I'm moving away to my own Kubernetes cluster. Here's how (and why).
Docker and Node 20 on M1 Macs
If you trying to build a Node 20 image with Docker on Apple Silicon while upgrading from an older Node versions, you may get stuck on the `npm install` step. There's an easy fix for it.
Fun with OpenAI, GPT, and Notion
I’ve been toying with this side project for a couple of months, and I’m pretty happy about how it’s been going so far.
Quick Life Update
It's been quite a while since my last update, and I just want to post something to say that I'm alive :)
2022: A Year In Review
My expectations for 2022 were really low, but holly hell, it managed to not live up even to these abysmally low expectations.
Amazon's The Peripheral: I'm angry
I'm often angry at Amazon, but this time it's for a reason not directly related to their terrible business practices.
The Walking Dead: Twitter
I've deactivated my twitter account recently in favor of Mastodon. Here's why.
Lawns vs Meadows: post-summer update
This year I've run an experiment: I replaced the lawn in our backyard with a meadow. And it went pretty well!
Hello and welcome
Just wanted to say hi to those who found me here while rediscovering the internet outside of social media.
San Juan Island Weekend
For the first time in a while, a trip felt truly like a proper vacation. The one that doesn't require another vacation to recover from it :))
Fathers Day 2022
I can't remember how this tradition started exactly, but every year since, like, 2015 we've been doing this camping thing right around Father's Day.
Weekend in Port Angeles and the Olympic mountains
I've managed to squeeze quite a few vacation days into this weird summer, and just over a week ago my wife and I went camping at the foothills of the Olympic mountains in Western Washington.
Oyster Dome and Lily Lake Hike
Another week, another hike. I almost forgot how rewarding it is to spend a few hours just walking through a forest, alone with my own thoughts!
Meadows > Lawns
Lawns are bad. Bad for the environment, bad for local wildlife, they are useless, thirsty, and require a lot of maintenance just to keep them useless.
Boulder river hike
After our failed first hike of the season, we've managed to get one recorded yesterday.
Hiking season failed kickoff
The 2022 hiking season is off to a rough start: out of two hikes we attempted as a family, one ended with an impassable road about two miles prior to the trailhead, and the second one… well, let’s just say that we had to turn back sooner than expected.
Все буде Україна 🇺🇦
This is unspeakable: Russia is bombing Ukraine. I'm Russian-American, and most of my family remains in Russia. I love Ukraine with all my heart, and most of my friends are Ukrainian.
Old Man Yells at Cloud
Effective immediately, I'm protected by the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 👴🏻
2021: The Year in Review
2021 was a very long year. In part because we didn't get to decompress after 2020, in part because a lot of 2020 stayed with us through the entire 2021, and in part because of a bunch of personal stuff that happened.
Building this website: meditation through code
It's funny how I spend a lot of my free time on tweaking this website, improving this or that, adding a random feature, or falling down a rabbit hole of some technology I may eventually want to use here. Yet its main purpose - it's a blog, damn it! - happens to be mostly neglected.
CascadiaJS 2021
For years I wanted to attend CascadiaJS 2021, a PNW-native JavaScript conference. And for a while, I either couldn’t afford it, didn’t have the time, or had more immediate priorities.
Listening now: Apple Music
At the bottom of this page you can find the latest song I've listened to on Apple Music. Here's how I made it works.
Journaling
I've been writing stuff that nobody reads for a long time. Now I not only do it here but also in a private paper-based journal. And it's been a game-changer in the past few months.
Moonlander Keyboard
I've upgraded my keyboard recently. It's been a frustraring, fullfilling, and invigorating experience so far.
Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Lindsey Stirling
2020 was a year of, among other things, missed concerts. I missed live music so much that as soon as I got a chance to go to concerts again, I went nuts.
Arlington: bike ride
Just a few photos from the bike ride through Arlington, Washington.
Configure Twilio SIP Trunk with Unifi Talk
Unifi Talk by Ubiquity is a very promising service. However, so far it's been lacking documentation. Here's how to configure Twilio SIP Trunk with Unifi Talk.
Summer Time
The summer is different this year. Let's take a look at what's going on this time around.
Using AI vision to generate alt text for images
Let's make sure that you never miss an alt text in your image tags using Azure Computer Vision.
June 2021 Update
It's been such an exhausting yet exciting month. The new house stuff is coming along, moving out is on track, work is buzzing. I'm tired, pumped up, sleepy, and on fire!
Weekly Update #4
A a lot had happend in the past month. We closed on the house, got fully vaccinated, I won a hackathon at work, and once again updated this website.
Weekly Update #3
This one is short: house hunting is over & family is in town!
Weekly Update #2
An exciting week, full of driving around and anticipation of change.
Weekly Update #1
In order to keep myself accounatble and to develop some writing consistency, I'm going to start posting weekly updates. Here's the first one.