Home networking has been my passion and obsession ever since I realized that the default all-in-one boxes that ISPs are loaning to us for low, low $10 or so per month don’t meet even the most basic geek needs. I mean, if you try to squeeze functionality of a firewall…

My key productivity grunt at home is Windows machine; a beast that has more memory than my MacBook Pro has disk space, configured to do everything just the way I like it. I tinker with OS settings so much, which leads to too frequent wiping and re-installation of my base…

Everyone’s Mac is configured differently, but my Mac is — of course — configured the best for me. Through a process of trying to forget Windows and learn Mac, I streamlined my way of working on macOS and customized this monster by installing and configuring tons of stuff that doesn’t…

Just to warn my innocent and happily naive readers, this post is not nice. It will make you feel hollow on the inside, angry at the situation and hopeless in the absence of any positive outcome. You have been warned. Remember how I got into social-network-building and twitter-manipulating craft with…

I recently learned how vanity and herd mentality drive human behavior and how we all are suspects to incredible — and aggressive — behavior manipulation. Are you ready for a tin-foil conspiracy story that will make you hate your online presence forever? Fasten your seat belt as this story is…

The other day I got into a squabble with a colleague about some obscure detail of Azure storage. I knew I was right as I experienced a “unique” behavior of Azure Page Blobs just a few days earlier, but nooo, I absolutely cannot be correct as I do not have…

Picture yourself in this situation: you are leading a stalled project, and you’re analyzing key issues preventing the team from performing. The issue might be a “cross-team collaboration.” You are not sure, though; it could also be a “recognizing excellence,” a “positive work environment” or even an “encouragement.” You just…