2026-07-07
Schrödinger's IIN: How My Kazakhstan Plan Went Sideways
How getting a Kazakhstan IIN turned into a week of quantum bureaucracy: a system outage, a reasonless rejection, and a sudden "you already have one".
2026-06-30
Kazakhstan Banking Setup: SIM, IIN, Freedom Bank, and Kaspi
A practical field report on getting a Kazakhstan SIM, IIN, Freedom Bank, and Kaspi cards in Almaty.
2026-06-29
Kazakhstan Banking Setup: Why It Started
Why I needed a foreign banking setup and why Kazakhstan became the first practical route.
2026-06-17
Belgrade trip
Trip to Belgrade for Encuentro tango marathon
2026-05-27
Almaty: greenery, mountains, and dinners with a Kazakh accent
A short set of impressions from Almaty: a very green city, snowy mountains, local food, and a friendly tango community.
2026-07-31
The Durak game that outgrew its simple plan
How a small exercise in publishing a mobile app gradually turned into a project of its own.
2026-06-23
Today’s Pearl of Wisdom
It’s not the size of your context window that matters — it’s how you use it.
2026-05-19
A breath before the answer
Sometimes the more mature act is not a stronger argument, but a single calm breath before it.
2026-05-19
The empty cup
It is hard to hear anything new when the mind is already full of the need to confirm itself.
2026-05-19
Gentle steps
Not every kind of strength needs to sound loud. Sometimes real steadiness enters a room almost silently.
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