Rosnovsky Park
217 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBlog by Art Rosnovsky, a software engineer, about technology, hiking, books, movies, and other things.
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Exploring Astro DB
March 13, 2024 00:00Astro 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
February 25, 2024 00:00I 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.
Building astro-mastodon library
February 25, 2024 00:00I 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
February 15, 2024 00:00I 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
February 06, 2024 00:00Being 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
January 16, 2024 00:00There'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
December 31, 2023 15:00Another 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
December 02, 2023 20:59After 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
September 17, 2023 00:00If 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
July 25, 2023 00:00I’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
July 06, 2023 00:00It's been quite a while since my last update, and I just want to post something to say that I'm alive :)
Quick life update
July 06, 2023 00:00So, it's been a while. Just wanted to let those of you interested that I'm alive and well, just a bit bored with the blog and distracted by other shiny things. Mastodon As I mentioned in the past, I'm running a small instance of Mastodon. It's been fun and educational in more ways than one, to put it mildly. I don't spend too much time running the instance, but I've been full-time, all-in on Mastodon for a while now, and I can't be happier about leaving Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Re...
2022: A Year In Review
December 31, 2022 20:59My 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
December 19, 2022 00:00I'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
November 25, 2022 00:00I joined Twitter in 2007. I had my share of concerns and complaints about it, but unlike some other social media websites, Twitter appeared to at least try and do better. Even those anemic attempts at stopping dis/misinformation and suspending a few literal Nazis seemed like huge steps in the right direction. Twitter internal culture had all signs of moving in the right direction as well. And then Elon Musk happened. And it all disappeared in just a couple of weeks. Elon Musk is an entirely...
The Walking Dead: Twitter
November 24, 2022 20:00I've deactivated my twitter account recently in favor of Mastodon. Here's why.
Lawns vs Meadows: post-summer update
November 04, 2022 20:00This year I've run an experiment: I replaced the lawn in our backyard with a meadow. And it went pretty well!
Hello and welcome
October 30, 2022 23:18Just wanted to say hi to those who found me here while rediscovering the internet outside of social media.
San Juan Island weekend
August 13, 2022 00:00It's pretty funny that for the longest time my "vacations" were exhausting. Like, after I come back home, I felt so tired that my only thought was "when would I be able to rest after this?" This time was different: I came back home refreshed, somewhat rested, relaxed, and calm. And the thing is, it was just a bit longer than a weekend. A few months ago, my wife found a farm on San Juan island that offered camping on site. We thought it was a cool idea, and we booked our 4-night stay right a...
San Juan Island Weekend
August 13, 2022 00:00For 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
July 21, 2022 00:00I 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
July 20, 2022 00:00I'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
July 05, 2022 00:00Another 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!
Father’s Day 2022
June 21, 2022 00:00I 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. We camp either at the Ilwaco KOA or at Astoria KOA. This year's camping was a bit of an oddity: normally, by mid-June, we are deep into summer with the weather being clear, sunny, and somewhere in the 80s throughout the day. This year, it was rainy, overcast, and mid to high 50s. Basically, cold and wet early-spring weather. We even considered...
Meadows > Lawns
May 31, 2022 00:00Lawns 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
May 29, 2022 00:00After our failed first hike of the season, we've managed to get one recorded yesterday.
Hiking season failed kickoff
May 22, 2022 00:00The 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 🇺🇦
May 15, 2022 00:00This 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
January 28, 2022 20:00Effective immediately, I'm protected by the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 👴🏻
2021: The Year in Review
December 28, 2021 00:002021 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
December 19, 2021 00:00It'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.
Building This Website: Meditation Through Code
December 19, 2021 00:00It'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. This fact ("I don't use my blog for, well, blogging") made me think about why do I even have this site. I mean, sure, it's been around forever, in different shapes, forms, and even domains; I used to host my podc...
CascadiaJS 2021
November 04, 2021 00:00For 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
November 01, 2021 00:00At 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
October 14, 2021 00:00I'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
September 17, 2021 00:00I've upgraded my keyboard recently. It's been a frustraring, fullfilling, and invigorating experience so far.
Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Lindsey Stirling
September 11, 2021 00:002020 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
September 04, 2021 00:00Just a few photos from the bike ride through Arlington, Washington.
Configure Twilio SIP Trunk with Unifi Talk
August 06, 2021 00:00Unifi 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
July 13, 2021 00:00The 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
July 07, 2021 00:00Let's make sure that you never miss an alt text in your image tags using Azure Computer Vision.
June 2021 Update
June 26, 2021 00:00It'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
June 05, 2021 00:00A 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 #2
April 12, 2021 00:00An exciting week, full of driving around and anticipation of change.
Weekly Update #1
April 03, 2021 00:00In order to keep myself accounatble and to develop some writing consistency, I'm going to start posting weekly updates. Here's the first one.
Auth0: 10 Years Later
March 14, 2021 00:00It's hard to believe that it's been over a year since I joined Auth0. It's time to do some reflection. Shall we?
Auth0: 10 years later
March 14, 2021 00:00I joined Auth0 in December 2019. A few months later the COVID pandemic started to take shape. Now, over a year later, I can say with confidence: it was no ordinary year. Confusion, uncertainty, adaptation to the new work paradigm, burnout, finding my routine, and just generally trying to fit this square "2020" peg into... well, into anything, really. Unknown block type "image", specify a component for it in the `components.types` option It's been a wild ride. As wild as it gets. Looking ba...
Building this website: Part 3
February 23, 2021 00:00In this installment, let’s talk about what it takes to start over and why perfect is indeed the enemy of good.
Dynamic comments for a static website
February 13, 2021 00:00For the past couple of months, I've been working on a comment feature for this blog. Now that it's almost finished, I invite you to check it out along with some implementation details.