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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 30/09/2026

My tremolo picking could use more work but this is the best take I've been able to get. This is the guitar solo from Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead. It's my favorite song of all time <3

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 24/09/2026

Reminder that AI agents can just ignore your suggestion to not crawl 😒 What's even more concerning is some of these paths being requested seem like malicious attempts.

"Robots.txt violations" in Cloudflare shows 27 violations for claude, 27 for CCbot, 24 for claude, 24 for claude, and 21 for claude-searchbot

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 20/09/2026

This one was fun... took more attempts than I can count. It is not a particularly difficult song but I was not used to doing pull-offs with my pinky, and since I use a pick most of the time my thumb had to get used to hitting the right bass notes.

DaVinci Resolve timeline with three tracks for different takes: one initial, one with mistakes at the end, one with mistakes at the start.

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 09/09/2026

Prompt, rabbit, prompt Ship that slop, forget the sun And when at last the work is done Don't stand up, it's time to prompt another one

Oliver Tate, the protagonist of the movie Submarine. A young boy wearing a black coat is sitting in a white porcelain bathtub in the middle of a field, staring straight ahead with a dead look in his eyes

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 02/09/2026

if the LLM was trained to talk like us, and we start to talk like the LLM, does... does that mean...

The ouroboros, a mythical symbol of a snake eating its own tail

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 01/09/2026

Behold, the ultimate barre chord workout

Chords for Andromeda by Weyes blood, as tabbed by user Fireflying on ultimateguitar. The song has 12 chords, 11 of which are all barred.

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 20/08/2026

It's especially annoying because clearly TypeScript already knows what the inferred type is there lol.

Property 'doThing' in type 'Bar' is not assignable to the same property in base type 'Foo'.
Type '(bar: number) => void' is not assignable to type '(bar: string) => void'.
Types of parameters 'bar' and 'bar' are incompatible.
Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'number'.(2416)
(method) Bar.doThing(bar: number): void

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 20/08/2026

Everything okay on the YouTube QA team? How does this even get to prod lol.

$YouTube notification that reads: "You got ${__number__| likes"$

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 27/07/2026

The only proper way to play Civ

Civilization 6 nation status bar. The player is at war with 7 rival nations.

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 22/07/2026

texas.gov requiring you to enter the state for your new address for a driver's license replacement is really funny. I dunno, take a wild guess what the state is.

https://txt.texas.gov/dpslr/verify-address form, with a state combobox with an error state saying "Please select a state"

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 11/06/2026

A new SSD now costs the same as (if not more than) a new PS5 console. Just think about that for a sec. These AI corporations are robbing us of consumer hardware just so a bunch of preteens can ask gork to make funny images and undress people. This shit is getting ridiculous.

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 30/04/2026

on the 2nd try, we are so back chat

victory achieved screen on ornstein and smough in dark souls 1

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 09/04/2026

Also what the fuck does "storing via GPU" even mean, that makes no sense. I'm tired of grifters in tech, but I'm even more tired of people not bothering to check if the people who claim to know what they're talking about are real or full of shit.

abduqodir.25 on Instagram: "Each AI processor consumes 30 liters of water per day. 12 h ago, 70 likes. millajovovich response: that's why keeping your work local is so important. And not storing everything via GPU. 12 h ago, 170 likes"

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 29/03/2026

Jumping spiders are one of the few kinds I try not to kill if I can help it. They're way too cute and intelligent imo. This lil guy had some trust issues at first but eventually agreed to jump on so I could take it outside.

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 19/03/2026

Adding this to the list of things I hate about React. The blur and focus events do not bubble in the native DOM, but they do in React because React. react.dev/reference/re...

Handling focus events

In React, focus events bubble. You can use the currentTarget and relatedTarget to differentiate if the focusing or blurring events originated from outside of the parent element. The example shows how to detect focusing a child, focusing the parent element, and how to detect focus entering or leaving the whole subtree.

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 09/03/2026

do what you must, but you better not hesitate

awww kitty, but it's afflicted with madness and its eyes are a fiery orange blaze

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 23/02/2026

Google sent me a bs DMCA claim on my site and it doesn't even make any sense. Apparently the NBA is alleging that this article I wrote is using "copyrighted NBA sports videos and images". WTF? www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/static-...

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 23/02/2026

I've been practicing alternate picking and gallops daily for the past month. Managed to hit 140 bpm today, which I could've never imagined doing a month ago. Just yesterday the max I could hit was 120.

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 11/02/2026

🎵 I think it's strange you never knew 🎵

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 08/02/2026

Restrung my electric last night and oiled the fretboard. I was skeptical, but the oil really darkens the wood and gives it a nice shine. I've only ever changed strings on an acoustic before; this one was easier imo.

ESP LTD EC-256 (les paul style guitar) with a dark red body, a dark brown mahogany fretboard, and a black strap.

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 07/02/2026

Head in the Ceiling Fan intro. I haven't learned the full song yet and my playing isn't perfect, but I just wanted to show some appreciation for it. It's such a simple riff but it perfectly captures that feeling of nostalgia for your childhood/simpler times. The bends are so satisfying.

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 03/01/2026

Name that Deftones song! (Section from today's practice session. Still a bit choppy, but getting there.)

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 27/12/2025

What fruit do I put in my oatmeal? Yes

Bowl of oatmeal with yellow opal apples, banana slices, and blueberries

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 12/12/2025

The most prescient lyrics ever written

Knights of Cydonia by Muse, verse 1

[Verse]
Come ride with me through the veins of history
I'll show you a god who falls asleep on the job
And how can we win when fools can be kings?
Don't waste your time, or time will waste you

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 11/12/2025

Also very fun to play (this is retuned in drop C#)

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 07/12/2025

Saw a S.O.A.D. cover band last night (Down with System) and they were incredible

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 05/12/2025

Paul Dano's acting was phenomenal in There Will Be Blood, and Prisoners, and so many other great films. I don't know what Tarantino is smoking.

Quentin Tarantino criticized Paul Dano's acting in the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood during a recent podcast appearance
"He is weak sauce, man. He's a weak sister. . . Austin Butler would have been wonderful in that role," Tarantino said
Dano famously costarred with Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson's historical epic, which won two Academy Awards

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 04/12/2025

Incredible sales are happening on Amazon rn

Item has decreased from $12.76 to $12.75, and another from $7.89 to $7.06

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 02/12/2025

how the past 5 years have felt

Scene from the music video for Just by Radiohead, depicting a man in a suit lying on concrete while other businessmen hunch over him and ask him what's wrong. Captions read: "I'm fine. Please, will you just let me lie here"

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 01/12/2025

Some bending and vibrato practice. Missed the timing in one spot but I'm making progress. I was struggling way more with this solo ~2 months ago. Song is Pretty When You Cry. #guitar

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 01/12/2025

In love with this chord progression (Song is "Cruel World" by Lana Del Rey)

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 26/11/2025

If you see this, QTP with FOUR games that hold special memories for you

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap on the Gameboy Advance

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 25/11/2025

Work-in-progress cover of "In Your Head" by Cloudyfield 🤘 Still gotta do the verses and clean up some of the muting and timing, but I'm getting there!

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