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How I Donated Blood for the Military for the First Time
Found a Telegram channel looking for blood donors for the military, signed up one evening - and by the next day I was sitting in line for tests at a military hospital.
OpenAI Released GPT-5.6: Three Models, Programmatic Tool Calling, and a Repeat of the Government Clearance Story
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 as three capability tiers at once, Sol, Terra, Luna. A breakdown of the new caching mechanics, Programmatic Tool Calling, and where the model genuinely beats competitors, and where it doesn't.
Grok 4.5 Is Out - and This Might Be the First Release Where the Vendor Shows Where It Loses
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 and honestly showed in the announcement where the model loses to competitors - an unusual level of candor for an industry that typically only publishes favorable benchmark slices.
Why I Took Ukraine's ЄВІ 2026 Entrance Exam for a Master's Degree
10 years in IT, and it turns out I'd forgotten half of computer architecture. A story about Ukraine's ЄВІ 2026 and a master's degree that seemed like a formality.
How I Adapted to Claude's 5-Hour Usage Limit
Claude resets its usage limit 5 hours after your first message, so I learned to start that timer before breakfast instead of whenever I happen to sit down to work.
How Chess Helps Me Think Like a Developer
How a lunch-break chess game turned into a bullet habit - and why thinking fast at the board directly helps with the day-to-day job of a developer, especially now that AI writes the routine code.
How I Almost Became a Bone Marrow Donor
My wife signed me up for a bone marrow donor registry, I forgot all about it - and a few months later I get a call saying I might be a match for someone.