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Hey, UTS! I wanted to tell something...

Not sure if it has been mentioned before on blog, however - I graduated from University of Technology, Sydney a couple of years ago. My study path was very bizarre, which included diploma

adventure

Royal National Park in July

Every month I try to have a getaway in a bush: either Blue Mountains, Manly, Cronulla, or somewhere else. And this time I decided to make another escape to Royal National Park.A

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Jiu Jitsu

I tried a lot of martial arts in my early ages: karate, aikido, kick-boxing(not a martial art, but still) even a little bit of capoeira. But it never actually stuck for a

android

VERTEP - our new start-up.

Those who know me well enough understand that I can't live without doing some side projects 😊 It is my drug and addiction.You've probably seen couple of stories from me mentioning couple of

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What am I working on now

Technology and programming is my addiction. Like for real. End of day, weekends, holidays - I'm trying to spend at least 2 hours a day developing/researching something.Currently I'm working on a

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I'm back from Hong Kong 💡

Well, I was smart enough to forget automatic renewal of my old blog instance, and it shut down erasing all my data (Luckily enough I backed up my old posts and ported to

dev.to

[dev.to] Explaining RecyclerView for Android with Kotlin!

Alright, I've been casually developing Android  apps for a while, and looks like some people were still confused on how to create a RecyclerView for their projects.This late evening I decided to

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Deep thought extravaganza: change call

We've been all programmed. From the day two.When I joined my school for the first time, our primary teacher used to say: "You need to study hard to be able to find

dev.to

[dev.to] New article about my experience with SSH tunnels on dev.to is live!

Recently I had a very interesting experience with SSH tunnels on my project, which was quite an exciting experience. Thanks to my colleagues we were able to solve all issues, and I thought

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[dev.to] How to build Web App project + CI/CD pipeline in a Hammer Way 🛠

Happy Good Friday everyone!I got some free time which I wanted to spend by sharing some technical experience.There were many ideas ranging from functional programming to TDD, however decided to write

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Let's connect!

After a recent Google Analytics check, I found out that my blog visibility improves every day!It is amazing to see people from different countries visiting this place and reading my small updates

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Fresh unprotected SSH port opened for an hour 🤪

Following my previous article about simple Web Camera surveillance project, here is an update.As you may know, I used NAT (Network Addressing Translation) to my Raspberry Pi (SSH connection only), which means

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[dev.to] Check out how to build your own primitive surveillance system with Raspberry Pi in less than one hour 🔥

One of my recent articles on `dev.to` describing how I managed to build a very easy surveillance system using web camera and Raspberry Pi 3 B+!Check it out here => https:

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Our BIG project.

There has been always a strive for some project. In a life of a Software Engineer, doing side projects is sometimes a breath of fresh air. It often happens when in the middle

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[from dev.to] My brief path of being a Software Engineer 🔥

Original post here: https://dev.to/nickitax/my-brief-path-of-being-a-software-engineer-e93My career path was very interesting: while I was studying in a high school in Europe, there was absolutely nothing pushing myself to go towards Software

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Which projects have I worked in a last 2 years???

Soon it is going to be 2 years since I joined my awesome company - OCTO Australia!🎉 Yaay!I still remember a time when I arrived as a super fresh graduate with no

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I purchased a Switch!

Handheld consoles was a part of my life starting from a middle school. I was lucky enough to have a Nokia N-Gage QD, followed by PSP and then PSVita. But for some reason

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Last 5 years: travel statistics

During the last 5 years I visited some countries, transfer, long or short stay:UAEEnglandAustriaMontenegroPhillipinesQatarThailandIndonesiaHong KongSingaporeAustralia (of course)Ukraine+ before:TurkeyRussiaGreeceMy future hot list contains: China, Japan, Fiji, New Zealand, New Caledonia, France,

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Finally: Blue Swimmer crab found @ Manly

Just came back from Manly, and was lucky enough to spot a giant blue swimmer crab! One of my most favourite things is to take my diving mask, fins and Sony Action Cam

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Higher and higher. And higher!

What I found out in recent couple of years is that people tend to go through particular loop: have some particular aim -> achieve it -> get comfortable -> lose

Momentum of sense.

It's been a while my mind has been wandering about a question: does what I do every day make any sense? Something I'm spending five days a week from nine o'clock to six?

Adventures in Bali

New Year 2019 has been projected to be celebrated in Sydney, or at least somewhere in Australia. But no! I decided to experience Indonesian "God's island", and TLDR: it has been a great

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My life in TDD: Love and... love?

Test-driven Development (TDD): You write an empty suite, then you write a test for that suite, then you fail a test, then you refactor until test passes. Done. Here is emoji version of

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[ Part 1 ] TensorFlow: A to Z model training.

I had a chance to play with TensorFlow for one of the projects. I've never had any machine learning experience before, as well as Python itself (🔥). In this article I will explain how

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Corporate world: drawbacks

As a consultant, my main responsibility is to be on premises of a client and commit to particular project objectives... And most of the clients belong to a big enterprise group. Considering my