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by baobaba 1300 days ago
A small neighbourhood bakery with a large diesel generator in Lviv that stayed open every day since the war in Ukraine started. Even during complete power blackouts they stayed open, brewed coffee, baked croissants, and let everyone charge their devices. Nowadays it's overrun with programmers like me as it's a reliable source of power and internet.

My small Bluetti EB70 that lets me take hot showers when Russians launch rockets at our infrastructure and disconnect whole cities from the grid.

Electrical engineers that keep fixing the grid so that my Bluetti can charge from time to time.

A friend with Starlink who's happy to share internet. Simple things!

2 comments

Hang in there, buddy.
Thank you, appreciate you reaching out from the internets!
What are you working on?
I am a backend developer (RoR stack, with some UI chops). I used to work for a well-known US company remotely, got let go a week ago. Right now I'm catching a breath and deciding what's next. I might work on my own projects + freelance for a while.