About Me
Fullstack developer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Web applications and native macOS tools — focused on performance, clean code, and great user experience. Currently at Promova.
I research my family history — restoring connections between generations, searching for archival documents and records. I use Ukrainian archival portals to find historical parish records and census data. The deepest branch traces back 6 generations from my mother. My family tree on MyHeritage currently includes 392 people.
Resources I Use
Final Cut Pro
Video Editor & Content Creator
Vlog-documentary editing — fast-cut storytelling with a cinematic feel. From concept to final cut: color grading, sound design, motion graphics.
Inspired by CaseyNeistat
Often thinking about the world, technologies, education, human nature, and different directions life takes. From time to time, the loudest ones land on paper.
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A special feeling — to stand at night in complete darkness, far from the city, and just look at the stars, the sky black, millions of points, and this silence in which you suddenly feel the scale: the universe is infinite, you are tiny, and the stars are so beautifully visible, it's such a strange feeling. It grounds you better than any meditation. Reminds you of your place in things.
What I hear under the stars
just a couple of examples — there's plenty more where these came from
I ruthlessly dump everything into Obsidian — thoughts, notes, ideas, links, fragments of conversations. No "is this worth it" filter. Because in the moment of a thought you don't know what will grow out of it a month later. So the rule is one: it appeared — it's written down. Otherwise it dies by evening. The analogy is odd but accurate — it's like reading a book. What's the point of reading it if the knowledge doesn't sink in? In one ear, out the other. When you read, thoughts arise automatically — reflections, associations, objections. That's what you need to write down, because that is the product of your head, not the book's. The flow of information around you is enormous. If you can't integrate all of it into yourself right away — at least write it down. I recommend the same to everyone. This isn't about "productivity" or "second brain" — it's about whether your thoughts survive after you've had them. Without an external medium most of them vanish. With Obsidian each one stays and gets linked to others through [[wiki-links]] — the photo shows my current graph. Interaction with the notes goes through AI — any modern agent can search, read, add, link. For me it's Claude through an MCP server. How I set it up — I described in a separate article.
I tried many: Notion, Apple Notes, Evernote, Bear, Roam, dozens of smaller ones. Each one either has something critically missing, or something critically in the way. Obsidian is the only one that doesn't try to box me into anything: notes are just plain local Markdown files, no vendor lock-in. It's universal precisely because it's built around text, not around someone's vision of "how you should think".
Deeply fascinated by Lao Tzu. I've reread the Tao Te Ching countless times, and every time I find something new there that I hadn't noticed before. This book is one of those rare few that never runs dry. You can return to it for years, at different stages of life, and it always answers anew to what has changed within you. This is exactly the case where brief = deep.
A separate hobby — macro photography. Drawn to shooting up close: insects, plants, flower petals, tree bark, water drops — anything that looks ordinary at arm's length and turns into its own world of textures and geometries under a macro lens. A different way of seeing what's always been right there.