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Nebula is a scalable overlay networking tool by Slack that creates a private mesh VPN between your devices — no central server, no complex IPsec configuration. This guide walks through generating a certificate authority, setting up a Lighthouse node on Linux, and connecting Mac and iPhone clients. By the end, you'll have an encrypted 192.168.100.0/24 network your devices can reach each other on,…
The post of Mark Watson encouraged me to try running LLMs locally on my MacBook Pro M1 Max 64 for coding with Claude Code. I experimented running the following models with ollama: deepseek-coder-v2:16b-lite-instruct , qwen2.5-coder:14b-base , nemotron-3-nano , devstral-small-2 , glm-4.7-flash - and I was disappointed: only with one of the models (don't remeber which one) did I manage to have a…
why Time to time I practice on platforms like Leetcode, Codewars, and others. I needed a simple way of organizing the tasks and solutions, a possibility to edit codes in an IDE, running tests. The problem with default approach is that typically you need to "create a project", - so for Java it would be pom.xml and all that stuff; it works while you have just a few tasks, but it all dies when it is…
why Most people are bad at keeping in touch, some (like me) are even worse. The folowing system can help with keeping networking and staying in touch with people. what I met this idea first at Jakob Greenfeld's and then found it at Derek Sivers' website. The idea is simple: you label contacts on fourth categories: a: very important, contact every three weeks b: important, contact every two months…
Updated: March 1st 2026, Stockholm Life is suffering. Even the darkest regions have even darker corners. Updated: November 30th 2025, Stockholm Reading "This is marketing" by Seth Godin. Still reading. Every few pages I have an insight and need to think about it. Seth is really a guru in marketing. Learning I ordered ZSA Voyager. Still practicing with blind typing. Waiting for the keys. Working on…
I just started reading a book, " Consciousness explained ", by Daniel C. Dennett; the author discusses hallucinations and possibility of a full symulation of someone's brain sensors. This is an old idea, typically called 'brain in a vat', and I was familiar with it. But reading its descipion in the book, it restored some old flashbacks in my memory. Brain in a vat is a well-known thought…
This is not a book with ready-to-use solutions. It is mostly about ideas and mindset. Many thoughts in the book are relevant and/or specific only for US citizens/residents. Some of the information is obviously outdated, but the author also often says this directly. Andrew mentions russia and belorus as examples of emerging markets with huge potential. I don't know how close did he look at these…
I remember the times when C++ was the only "serious" language that was used to write software. There also things like Tcl/Tk and Perl. But only C++ was considered the true language that had the potential to take over teh future. Then, Java appeared. I remember that magazines were split on two sides: one side was saying that Java is the language of the future, and the other side was saying that…
Last winter, I had pneumonia for around four months. That was a sort of a disaster for my health: I could not sleep because of the coughing, and I had issues with breathing. But even after it ended, I still experienced consequences - e.g., my VO2max metric dropped to 18.