Alex Zolotarov

Character Development

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

That’s what it’s all about.

Maybe there is no objective reason to my birth, but I was born anyway. And since I gained my reasoning, curiosity gave me a vision, and purpose. You can find purpose in life doing anything you like, as long as it makes a difference.

If I wasn’t dedicated to technology, I would be a musician, a photographer, or a professional philosopher and writer perhaps.

The thing is, it’s not really about what you do—it’s all about how you do it. Of course, if you don’t like what you do you won’t get too far with your profession. This is why character development is everything. Environment and history shaped you and me as a character, with bad and good habits, with certain talents or even disabilities. In character development, any experience matters—as long as it won’t kill you physically or mentally. So please don’t do drugs.

Careerist

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Careerist is an ed-fintech platform that trains job seekers for tech careers (in QA, Sales, Support & more), finances them and automates their job hunting.

In 2023, Careerist has raised $8 million in a Series A round from a range of investors, including Cathexis Ventures, Xploration Capital, Cold Start Ventures, Grand Park Ventures, Y Combinator, and angel investors like James Herbert from First Republic Bank and Mikita Mikado, the founder of PandaDoc.

Octoffers

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Octoffers is a modern solution to a contemporary problem. nowdays, competition in the it market is intense. when 50 candidates with similar experiences apply for the same job, hiring process becomes a pure gamble. essentially if you’re looking for a new job and you’re not a senior engineer/developer with strong connections in it, you might need a bit of luck and patience. without the former, you could end up sending thousands of applications before securing the job you desire.

Executing Podman Commands within a Toolbox Container

Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

rpm-ostree-based Operating Systems #

For users operating on rpm-ostree-based systems, where the entire system runs within containers, this guide provides a workaround to access the host’s Podman from within a toolbox container. This proves especially useful when managing containers during development tasks within the containerized environment.

In the world of containerization, the toolbox container provides a convenient and isolated environment for development and testing. By default, the toolbox command is designed to work within the toolbox container, while Podman, a container management tool, may not function as expected inside it. However, there’s a clever workaround that allows you to use Podman seamlessly from within a toolbox container.