VSKI UPDATE - CHANGING DIRECTIONS?

Getting more insights almost always means that the selected course will be adjusted or changed completely. Long story short - this is exactly what happend to my side projects. And I think this change is for the better.

HOW I DEAL WITH GATEKEEPERS

“Gatekeeper” - a person that controls access to something (c) Google.

Usally people talk about gatekeeping when it comes to their job oppotunities, but I’ve got a different topic for today. I want to talk about gatekeeping of the solutions and gatekeeping of the ideas in general.

WHAT DATA SCIENCE IS GOOD FOR?

In light of the recent ai-hype I often hear ideas to use neural networks or ML to solve problems that are better off without it. Suprisingly, those ideas often come from “the tech guys” who should’ve known better, but for some reason started to believe in silver bullets. There’s nothing “magical” about machine learning and data science and the fundamental ideas behind it are simple. Here I’ll try to explain for bussiness owners in simple words when the ML techniques shine and when to chose another approach.

WHY YOU DON'T WRITE EVERYTHING IN GOLANG?

Recently a potential client asked me why I advise to write their app in Node.JS. Why not Golang? While gathering information about different technologies the client got an impression that Golang would be the best choice for their project. Here I’ll give a couple of reasons why sometimes we choose different technologies for the task.

I AM HAPPY MICROSOFT REWRITES TS IN GO

Microsoft is rewriting TypeScript in Golang [&]. This is the best news so far this year. Another company will contribute to Go ecosystem, and I like that it’s Microsoft - I am happy.

WHAT AN OS WITHOUT APPS REALLY MEANS?

An Operation System Without Apps is a concept that people can’t wrap thier heads around when I first mention it. Patially because it is contradictory to the definition of OS hence confusing, but no one named this concept better. As confusing as it may be it only means an approach to the interface design and it doen’t mean that the system has no apps.

A SHORT UPDATE ON VSKI - DITCHING FLUTTER

I’ve spent most of my free time past month on a passion project. Re-imagining intefaces and drafting the architecture. My first goal is to create a new UI toolkit which would make it possible to interract with AI powered systems in an effective way, but with that I don’t want to break well known user experience. A challenging task but I think it’s possible.

MY PROBLEM WITH CURRENT STATE OF AI

Personally I don’t like the way most companies imagine what AI should be. For some time I didn’t have anything constructive to say on the matter, because either I didn’t care or couldn’t pick a key argument among all the things I don’t like. And I wouldn’t say I have anything constructive now, but here are my thoughts that should answer why I am usually negative when talking about AI-hype.

MY CURRENT PROJECT - VSKI

Last year I’ve had a lot of experiments with different technologies and learned a lot. I call 2024 “A year of R&D”. All my work in the past year laid ground for the project I am working on right now: VSKI (vi-ski) - interactive distilling system. Here I want to explain the idea behind VSKI in essence, while not leaking important details before the MVP is ready.

WHAT IS YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL?

First thing I usually ask about new ideas is “What is the ultimate goal?” repharasing this question for a paticular case. The “ultimate goal” in my understanding is a clear defenition of the benefits.