2025 Novemeber

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Restarting my journal fully afresh. I've been journalling for 8+ years now & have used the journal to vent my emotions and I no longer want to do that. Talk is cheap.

Every past entry from 2017 to 2025 is in archives now.

I have a rough plan (can open it with n+a) and I plan to follow it. That's it.

I also realize that I never used social networks much like X, IG, etc. and that will stop too so will start posting there more. I don't expect anyone to read this journal so for me this journal is still an act of meditation/cleansing of my mind.

Just whilst previously I vented my emotions, from now on, I will just look at things more practically and perhaps in a more cold and objective way. If I hit another failure, I will just share it & move on.

Right now the goal is to get gen.new out. I just now moved into my new apartment in Limassol, Cyprus where I have quite a nice place with 1 gigabit network connection.

My eventual goal is to get my startups fully in prod, working and delighting users, starting from gen.new. Then I plan to fundraise. Hire a great team (the team is ready, just need funding). And eventually will move to SF as soon as I have the chance. For now I don't and that's ok. I don't need to be in SF to write code.

Started changes to track changes to projects.

Decided to share my public plan here.

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Cyprus is beautiful. Genuinely should of moved earlier. The time I spent in Russia had its lessons but I was forced into it by circumstances. The times I spent at my parent's house in Spain was also forced on me too by finances.

It's crazy the impact the env can have on your mental. I genuinely feel unstoppable now that I have insane workflows setup. I can code non stop. Go do exercise or take a swim when I want.

The only thing missing is community of great devs/people. Cyprus may have that but I don't really know anyone here yet. In anyway, Cyprus is a stop gap until I get to SF.

I actually kind of got a job offer from SF for an insanely exciting company so will def be going to SF eventually. For now coding here.

It's hard to overstate just how insane my workflow has gotten over 10 years of bike shedding and optimization. Now that I have no limits in software because LLMs are just insane now too, it's genuinely scary to imagine what the workflow would like for me in 1 year from now.

Especially considering I have some very cool projects in the pipeline. This fresh page of my journal is nice. Like the past is the past. The failures are all very hard lessons I have genuinely internalized.

Also having genuine crushes on people gives me energy and purpose. The will to be better and not waste a single second is genuinely strong and I don't want to lose that momentum.

The people in companies like OpenAI etc. operate at a much higher level than me and I need to outship every single person on this planet if I want to stand a chance and get back the lost time of my 20s working on failing startups.

Back to work.

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Very close to fully automated dev flow. Cursor ext to auto commit. Fast forks. Fast switches.

Crazy fucking world we live in that this is possible.

I need to get to 100+ commits a day. Then 1000 commits a day before 2026. Always be generating tokens, commit, snapshot, RL on the failures.

10,000 commits a day is doable in 2026.

Near place I live is amazing hotel with great gym, tennis court, swimming pool, sauna. Let's fucking go.

And gen release in coming days too.

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Got this idea to have r.nikiv.dev where r stands for research. Which will be a blade side with bunch of md files and pages of tools.

I need to move much much faster. Like 10x speed every week. Whilst looking after my health and fitness still. Let's try.

Recently getting shivers more and more when coding. So nice.

One lovely thing about keeping my site closed is I can have some .mdx files that are non published by keeping draft: true in frontmatter.

Going to start to do metrics at end of each day. Thought of doing them in private but why not share them. For now I think I will track this:

- Core Habits /6
  - Nutrition: .. (smoothie, supps, no sugar, ..)
  - Exercise: .. (50 min hardcore exercise, lift or tennis) (morning/evening until fail workouts)
- Other Habits: /18
- Tasks completed:
- Posts shared:
- Releases made:
- $ earned:
- Commits:
- Live (in minutes):
- Approached great people:
- Happy:
- Not a second wasted: yes/no
- Got into YC / Working in SF: yes/no
- Moving according to plan: yes/no

Will expand more and it will move into linsa soon.

It does feel like my life only began now, everything before was more like training for what's about to happen. Some say that about 30's. It's kind of sad though that Stripe founders and many more founders already have million and some billion $ startups by my age but it's whatever.

Life is not technically a race although it's nice to make it a race sometimes. I am going at the speed I can go with and let's see where that gets me. The amount of mistakes I've done though is just mind boggling. So many unoptimized seconds.

Less hype/words though. I am nearly done with auth in blade, chat works and all. I also do quite a bit of yak shaving still because it brings me immense joy to have fully ironed out workflow. I hope to offload more of the yak shaving to agents, I mean it kind of already is. I have multiple workspces open, I just write prompts into each of the workspaces.

This journal is going into linsa most likely quite soon as I can render out things there nicely. But need to get editor in and many more things. Currently writing this in Cursor and it is hard to beat it.

Considering it does do autocomplete incredibly well. Not that I use it for writing the journal but sometimes it is useful to have.

Whatever the solution that will move this journal of Cursor will have to either intgrate fully with .mdx in file system and have incredible error prone sync system or the editor needs to be on the level of Cursor here but better.

Lots of code to write till then.

I also do wonder, like there is Telegram channel I have and I might be dumping day updates in there after a bit of time just because Telegram distribution is unmatched. For now though the updates are still not as high signal as I want them to be.

Refining things. But will get there. I really need linsa to exist soon. gen.new first.

This guy is cool.

its happening 🖤

Going to spend some time to aggregating content from diff networks into here. So I can snapshot posts into TG, X etc. instead of just writing here and moving it.

Gotta use distribution networks for what they are good at.

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Going to start streaming. I want to up the live streamed minutes a day but will start slowly.

Need this fixed first though. So I can just stream/live all the time at no risk. Right now there is risk of leaking personal details with streaming, I need to avoid this. Streaming will move to Linsa soon though which is very exciting. And I will try solve that problem for good there.

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Feels nice to be able to stream so easily now. Linsa should come sooner though because the amount of things you wouild be able to do there will be sick.

Full preserve of audio played without messing with copyright. Separate streams by project worked on so can ref to streams from GitHub projects themselves.

Will be great. Ok going to finish billing and try get prod deploy out. Some issues with blade and containers. 😿

Ok it happened, I just got Forbidden to stream from YouTube, most likely due to streaming music..

Ok from now on, no music on streams, until I move streaming to Linsa.

Interestingly, learn anything will essentially be Linsa project now. Already made the switch repo wise. It just makes more sense.

I want to focus on 3 projects only essentially:

• gen.new
• linsa.io
• 1focus.ai

Ok there is no sound in streams now. Will still stream.

I wonder how to go even faster (aside from moving to SF ofc). Need to be very specific in what tasks and automations I go after from now on.

It's already the case but now need this even more so.

Also the streams as they are now are so boring because there is no sound. That's like half the charm of a coding stream imo

Once first linsa release is out, I am straight up jumping to get streams up in linsa.

Ok interesting apparently streams still receive sound but OBS does not have audio output set. Weird but cool. I get no loss on audio quality too this way somehow.

This setup is basically close to ideal in what I want in Linsa. There is ofc the VODs being wiped of sound down the line, that I can solve.

But as far as pure stream + how easy it is to go live, pause stream etc. It's just wonderful. There is actually no cost perf wise to keep stream running too.

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Going to try do thing where I actually stream most of the time even as starting on mac.

Had this insane thought and going to start building out on the side. You can legit build a programmable SDK for the OS itself.

And on the fly generate scripts/code to exec against it. Just have some secure sandbox, MCP etc. that can expose all kinds of functionality to an agent that can actually generate and execute the code on the fly.

There is path there for full automation of my workflow. Fully autonomous. Actually insane future.

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Not streaming until it's on Linsa itself. OBS add latency after all and I can't afford latency drop now. Have to build custom streaming software.

Codex makes you much more ambitious in what you can do.

Doing everything from first principles all the time now. No matter how hard the problem is. I am rebuilding the software stack, it's insane how more simple things can get if you abstract better.

What flow will be is huge for devs. Would not be able to do this without AI as I can just write rust code with english, it's insane.

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So many good ideas recently. So as I changed LA into Linsa more or less. LA will still exist. Currently building it as a hub and ingestor of knowledge from the internet etc.

Not having pages be part of scope of LA, makes releasing new version of LA doable even this month.

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Getting faster. There is an actual chance I will be in SF already in December. Insane if that's the case.