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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.

2019 Jan
23
Why I Moved From Medium to Self-Hosted Ghost Blog

Why I Moved From Medium to Self-Hosted Ghost Blog

What can blogging platforms give to online writers? Reasons to move from medium to a standalone blog.
Jan 23, 2019
2018 Nov
12
What I've Learned After 1.5 Years as a Freelance iOS Developer

What I've Learned After 1.5 Years as a Freelance iOS Developer

Now it’s about 1.5 years since I started freelancing and I can say that it seized me completely. It’s like being and an entrepreneur and developer at the same time and it seems to make a perfect fit for me personally.
Nov 12, 2018
2017 Dec
07
How I Struggled With Usergrid, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch

How I Struggled With Usergrid, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch

Not a tutorial, but more like a set of comments and log of my adventures with that thing.
Dec 7, 2017
2017 Jul
18
I Gave up iOS Development For 1.5 Years and Managed to Come Back

I Gave up iOS Development For 1.5 Years and Managed to Come Back

I gave up iOS development in the middle of 2015. I run away from there like a witch with an aftertaste of the dark medieval ages. Probably many of you have already forgotten these times, but I’ll remind you about the state of things in iOS in the middle of 2015.
Jul 18, 2017
2017 Jun
17
iOS Developer, Data Scientist, Quantitative Researcher. What Happened to Me Before June 2017

iOS Developer, Data Scientist, Quantitative Researcher. What Happened to Me Before June 2017

Before we start the new season of blogging story, let’s dive into the previous season a little bit. My old blog had more than 800 posts and represented a period of almost 7 years of my life.
Jun 17, 2017
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