alex pantiukhov / blog

Yet another blog about attempts and struggles. More about me.

My modest DIY project of radically improving the TP-02RF projector screen controller used in my NothingProjector screen
One day I decided to build a new cool home theater that features a UST projector and a cool and shiny and wonderful NothingProjector Black Series Motorized Screen. I can totally recommend this screen (and huge kudos to the NothingProjector support team, which is not only proactive and quick to respond but also answers with zero chatbot-ish bullshit).
30/09/2026
Routinie: shutting down and opening its source code.
Sometimes things just don’t go according to plan. While I can say the same about the last ~7 months of my life, in this particular post I want to be very specific and talk about the product called Routinie, which I launched in January, 2022
20/09/2022
How I moved my Kubernetes project from DigitalOcean to Amazon EKS in 4 hours and why
I have to say it: DigitalOcean is fantastic. They have a nice friendly UI, they allow you to develop things in seconds, and they are very cheap. That's why I always tried to avoid Amazon AWS, and I thought of it as of something monstrous and weird.
29/08/2019
Ingress, cert-manager, and Let's Encrypt DNS-01 validation (DigitalOcean guide)
This article is going to be very specific — I will tell you a bit about how I deploy my web applications, and what strategies I find most convenient and easy.
25/08/2019
The Beauty of Go: Scalable Services
Since I moved to Amsterdam, I started writing Go code, and I was doing it quite extensively during the last year or so. Go became my primary language, and I love almost every detail of it.
21/06/2019
Verifying Paddle signature in Go
Paddle is an amazing payment solution for SaaS businesses — mostly because one can integrate it in 20 minutes (thanks to webhooks!).
11/06/2019
What is it all about?
The idea of this blog came to me all of a sudden — I love writing, I write quite a lot of texts, but most of these texts are not about the things I do daily. Moreover, it turns out, a lot of my followers and even friends don't know what exactly I do.
7/06/2019