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Goodbye 2025

24 days ago 7 min read 2025 sketching parenting computing personal

Baby Liz! The biggest event of 2025 was, of course, the birth of my daughter. When you welcome your second child many changes in your life are the same as they were with...

Things I recommend you watch, listen to and play

5 years ago 8 min read personal films games tv music 2020

I enjoyed the process of writing about my best purchases of 2020 [https://yakopov.me/things-i-recommend-you-buy-and-use/], and so here is another consumerist post, this time listing my top 3 films, TV shows, musicians...

Things I recommend you buy and use

5 years ago 9 min read personal 2020 stuff

(this post was inspired by other similar lists - like this [https://medium.com/@s8mb/things-i-recommend-you-buy-and-use-second-edition-457a8e7163f6] or this [https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/things-i-recommend-you-buy-and-use-rob-edition-1d7b2ce27d68] - which I also recommend you to read) This year...

Crisis at Christmas

6 years ago 6 min read homelessness personal

A few days ago I have volunteered for the first time in a day centre for homeless people - a site where everyone can have a lunch, a nap, take a shower, change...