Delivering things – from code to product
Everything I put together all updates of different aspects of life. The year 2019 is unique as it closes the decade.
This time I feel I finished the decade's race absolutely empty. There were too many emotional blips, and several personal projects didn't even see the light, but it's all about reflection on results!
A while ago I have published post about the first skill for Alexa I developed. Personally I use it since then practically every day and I found it very useful. I didn't even bother to check analytics since, well, it does work for me and I expected people to use it as well if it's useful.
Thanks to my wife, I recently learnt London Bus Stop skill:
2019 is just around the corner - it's time to look back on this year.
This time I've got that rare feeling of partial accomplishment in 2018, although I can't say I've done everything I planned. Amusingly it could mean two very different things: I either lower my goals or actually performed well this year.
So here I am
London is the one of must to see places in the world. It has long history and always been an important economic center. Well, if you landed to that page you're already consider trip here.
UK is an island, hence there are not so many options to get here. I'm sure you are going to take a fight to London. Other options do exist but they either time consuming or quite expensive
Here is a good news: London has 5-6 airports(technically only two, other are just outside of London metropolitan area). These airports accommodate enormous flights all over the world reaching pretty much all possible countries on all continents. As a hub for many low cost carriers such as Ryanair, easyjet, Norwegian, etc it is possible to find tickets as little as £5-10+ for European destinations and £150+ for North America
Recently I had a talk at event organised by Google Developer Group community at lovely island Gran Canaria, Spain
Another year has come to end and it means it's the best time to look back and take a snapshot of things happend.
Things have changed a lot since my last update
It's been 1.5 years since I started to learn Spanish on duolingo. Unfortunately I lost my previous streaks a few times due different reasons excuses so I started it over.
I want to share some of my feelings and thoughts about that milestone.
I have already written a few posts about duolingo and how I'm happy with a way it helps me to learn new language, in me case it's Spanish. Technically I've been learning it for ~1.5 years but unfortunately I fucked up my streak a few times.
2016 год вышел сложным и судя по всему не только у меня. Вообще в конце года появился какой то тренд в этих ваших интернетах собирать что было плохого в уходящем году. Но какие-то позитивные итоги подвести все таки надо - еще один год позади как никак
Шутка для нердов про сложный 2016 год:
Вот и прошло два года.
Я чувствую что надо написать что нить про это в посте, чтоб зафиксировать текущее восприятие города и людей тут.
По началу казалось что британцы очень занощивые("posh") люди, думаю это было навеянно стереотипами об Англии. На самом деле я бы не сказал что это так. Они очень гордятся своими университетами - в любом знакомстве с чуваком из UCL/Cambridge/Oxford объязательно будет упомянуто место обучения. Причем не больше, чем выходец из МГУ гордится своим университетом. Я не знаю откуда это взялось, возможно как то частично связанно с акцентом - звучит ну очень posh и с привычкой использовать время perfect.
Лондон - арт город. Невероятное количество художников, музыканов. Они играют на улице, в метро, государство выделяет им специальные места для своих перфомансов(сходите вечером на Jubilee bridges или Southbank Centre). Тут очень много графити - но это картины, а не непонятно написанные имена, разумеется тут гадят и вандалы, но их мало.