Daily 447th day streak

Good problem (graphs ofc), was a bit tough for me, but still I would recommend. Has pattern.

https://leetcode.com/problems/shortest-path-with-at-most-k-consecutive-identical-characters/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-10-30

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Daily 448th day streak

Good problem again, has patterns, not hard, definitely I do recommend it.
To understand easier -> check comments under that post, hate when leetcode shows grid as just 2d array in one line without visual.

https://leetcode.com/problems/twisted-mirror-path-count/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-10-31

#daily #medium #pattern #recommend

This Czech chocolate honey cake (медовик) is sooooooo good omg.

AI WON'T REPLACE YOU, DON'T WORRY.

Meanwhile I'm checking whether I can be a boxing coach part time, just in case😁😁😁

POV: 2026

btw, I was legit considering what else I can do except engineering, cause this was the only job I had since 18 y.o, excluding 2 weeks selling cotton candies at 15.

I can be:
- not bad mentor for guitar/drums (or playing on the street)
- maybe not bad boxing coach
- make custom homemade notebooks???
- maybe do some authored media content (in case there will be non-AI internet created by and for people like me without ai slop)

I mean that's it. Otherwise I'm useless skinbag, I cannot do anything else, have no idea how cars work, how electricity works, no construction skill (ШТУКАТУР/ШПАКЛЬОВКА), no healthcare degree.

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Pls share what are your considerations for failover (work switch from IT)

Time to rewatch I guess. Btw this is my fav part. I need organ at home hahaha

My nerd period started. 8 months ago was "let's understand how civilization is getting electricity".
Now it is "let's understand how economics work" SO:

Give me pls the BEST books about economics you have read for:

- understand the fundamentals, why people stopped exchanging item1 for item2 and how we ended up with having central bank, banks, bonds, stocks all this bs around "I want to eat, here is something(money) and give me food in exchange".
- all this demand/supply thingy, how is that AN ECONOMIC LAW?, how it works on lower level with all human brain/desire uncertainty, step by step.

^^ in general I have some small understanding. But I want something like going fucking source code linux kernel to build mental model.

Daily 449th day streak

A bit bs problem, no pattern: either greedy emulation or math formula.
Wouldn't recommend.

https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-moves-to-equal-array-elements/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-11-01

#daily #medium #nopattern

People that hype over AI like: "AI is great, before I was able to deliver 1 app per year, now I can do 100500 apps in 3 days" -> do you understand that if you produce 100x more bread🥖 for your 10k people in town - it will not sell and get spoiled?

There are some legit people that are finding good opportunities and deliver niche/valuable apps (I have one such friend in CZ).
BUT THE MAJORITY of the people are just doing 100 financial/habit trackers🤡

Especially talking about B2C: the amount of people with phones essentially decreases (as birth rate is decreasing), the amount of digital time is decreasing (because there is reels, tiktok, etc).

If you need exercises to keep you back healthy.

U are welcome:

For Ukrainian speaking people: was co-interviewing Netflix engineering manager

https://youtu.be/8_jlfxdLHMc?is=t0splgBYk2vEN7W4

Btw , also the reason you must learn blind typing and use my VIM motions set up for whole OS.

Giveaway results. Congrats to @MaTasiia.
I already wrote to her and we have booked the meet. Please Anastasiia -> confirm in comment section xD

Thanks to everyone for participation!

this was the giveaway post. Now unpinning it

Daily 450th day streak

A bit BS, no pattern I would say. Not hard, the hard part is to realize one intuition trick

https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-moves-to-equal-array-elements-ii/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-11-02

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+1.
This is me and my bro when we get laid off because of AI.
Just need to learn Spanish

Someone said barista (maybe me). Sorry it is done already😢