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Jan
05

Hey There! I'm Serge

I’m a software engineer, independent contractor, and digital nomad, sharing my journey through Kazai Mazai Dot Com—a personal journal, digital garden, and blog about everything.

Jun
18

Posts

Check out my recently updated posts below or browse the full archive of longs and shorts. Curious enough? Learn a bit more about me or dive into the notes in progress or take look at what I'm doing.

Cursor for iOS Development – Installation Guide

Cursor for iOS Development – Installation Guide

Guide to integrating Cursor with Swift development workflows using Xcode & Inject hot reloading
How to pass secret env vars in Xcode and CI

How to pass secret env vars in Xcode and CI

The tutorial provides a solution for managing secrets as environment variables in Xcode and CI
Building iOS Mobile Apps with Redux-like Architecture

Building iOS Mobile Apps with Redux-like Architecture

One of the things I've been puzzling over recently. Can we benefit much from bringing redux-like architectures to iOS? How? And how can we get most of it?
Notion Task and Project Management Template

Notion Task and Project Management Template

My tasks and time management notion template that can be scaled up to handle multiple projects and users. Works best for managing to-do lists, tracking goals and prioritizing tasks.
My Portable Homelab Overview

My Portable Homelab Overview

I've finally built my portable home lab to streamline the way I deal with my media data storage, backups, archives, etc.
Network Effects in Personal Productivity

Network Effects in Personal Productivity

How to make every minute automatically reinvested in other areas of life, by creating positive feedback loops and eventually result in organic progress in all related areas.
Jan
04

Notes

It's a playground, an evolving collection of drafts, thoughts, ideas, and discoveries, all cultivated and gathered with care and curiosity: about these notes.

Software Development with AI

#AI Alignment, #Software Engineering A few thoughts on software development with AI * Now we have

English Is Not the Hottest New Programming Language

If you have a chance to spend enough time vibe-coding, you have probably faced the

How Can AI Affect Code Quality

#AI Alignment On the one hand, we get a unique chance to improve/rewrite legacy

iPad Mini 7 as a Productivity Device

#Gadgets I've been in the market for an ultimate productivity porn device for

Moving Back From Obsidian Tasks to Things App

#Obsidian, #Productivity After a few months with Obsidian tasks, I returned to the Things App.

Obsidian Plugins That I Use

#Obsidian Here is a list of all Obsidian plugins I use and why. Autolink title
Dec
11

Journal

A timeline-based journal capturing reflections on life, work, and everything in between.

2021 Jan
27
Is Paywall a Good Idea For Blog? I've Carried Out an Experiment

Is Paywall a Good Idea For Blog? I've Carried Out an Experiment

Last year I put a part of my blog behind a paywall. The price was a little bit less than a cup of coffee and started from a 1$ monthly tier.
Jan 27, 2021
2021 Jan
20
I'm Coming Back to Freelance From Early Retirement

I'm Coming Back to Freelance From Early Retirement

In December 2020 I firmly decided to start the come back process from my early retirement. Mainly for the reasons I've described in the early retirement beta test post. Anyway, retirement has never been planned to be endless.
Jan 20, 2021
2021 Jan
03
2020 Recap

2020 Recap

Happy Xmas and New Year for everyone! Now, when 2021 is finally out, it is a perfect time to make a summary of previous year, isn't it?
Jan 3, 2021
2020 Dec
24
Building in Public: Portfolius App — Dec 2020

Building in Public: Portfolius App — Dec 2020

I haven't brought any updates on Portfolius since July. Well, I should have definitely posted more often but I was way too busy! Guess why? Working on Portfolius!
Dec 24, 2020
2020 Oct
18
Is SwiftUI Production Ready? - October 2020

Is SwiftUI Production Ready? - October 2020

Four months ago I decided that it's perfect time to dive into SwiftUI entirely. How is it now?
Oct 18, 2020
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