Andrei Zmievski

Once again, Kara, Marie, and Terry are running the Photo Advent project this year: 25 days, 25 photos from various photographers. They’ve been kind enough to ask me to contribute, and I did...

https://zmievski.org/2011/12/photoadvent-2011/

This year I’m turning 35 years old, and I’m giving up my birthday for water. What does this mean? There is a water crisis in the world. I was vaguely aware of it, but as with many causes and ...

https://zmievski.org/2011/10/birthday-for-water/

As I mentioned on Twitter recently, duplicate detection (or de-duping) is one of the most unappreciated problems that the developers of certain types of applications face sooner or later. The app...

https://zmievski.org/2011/03/duplicates-detection-with-elasticsearch/

I miss blogging and the conversations that used to go with it. My friend Chris Shiflett probably feels the same way, because he is trying to start a blog revival with his Ideas of March post. I u...

https://zmievski.org/2011/03/ideas-of-march/

Becoming an American citizen a couple of years ago greatly eased travel-related headaches for me – no more visas to worry about (in general), way faster processing at the passport control, and ...

https://zmievski.org/2011/02/php-uk-2011/

I love San Francisco and I love to walk. So I started a new Tumblr blog called 42 Hills that tracks my progress through doing all the 27 walks in the Stairway Walks of San Francisco book. Check i...

https://zmievski.org/2011/01/42-hills/

My friends Kara, Marie, and Terry started a new project called Photo Advent this year based on a very simple idea: 25 days, 25 photos. In the spirit of Christmas, they’ve asked 25 photographer...

https://zmievski.org/2010/12/photo-advent-is-here/

I haven’t yet compiled a list of my top 10 beers, but if I did, Lost Abbey Angel’s Share would definitely be on it. I first tasted it at the 2010 Barleywine Festival at Toronado, and it was l...

https://zmievski.org/2010/08/angels-share-experiment/

I’ve seen a lot of problems solved with regular expressions, but last Friday, thanks to Chris and Sean, I found out that one can use them to determine whether a given integer is a prime number....

https://zmievski.org/2010/08/the-prime-that-wasnt/

About a year ago, I finally wisened up to the obvious: 1) losing data sucks, and 2) doing daily (or frequent) backups manually are a pain in the ass, especially for portables. 2) is why most peop...

https://zmievski.org/2010/07/time-machine-forensics/