Daniil Okhlopkov

Daniil Okhlopkov

How I failed to find a job in London 2023.

Hi! My name is Dan and I'm a 27 old ex-founder/CTO who failed to find a job in London this year. Here is my story. Quick Overview of My Career Path Back when I was a student at MIPT, I stumbled into the world of data science in 2015,

Kaggle tricks from Grandmaster & HFT Quant

Recently I came across this video from Kaggle Days Paris 2019 conference and found it very insightful. In this article, I will share all the unusual ML techniques mentioned in the video. These techniques can be immensely helpful in improving your ML model's performance for Kaggle competitions or real-world challenges

How to watch Telegram stories from Python

Masslooking, Masswatching or Mass story viewing. This was quite popular marketing strategy on Instagram couple years ago when they launched Stories. At that time, it was quite easy to watch up to million (!) stories each day. Recently, Telegram introduced the Stories feature as well. Let's write a code that will

How to get a Telegram channel subscribers list in python

Why do you need that list? If you have a Telegram channel you might want to know who follows you. Other social media platforms shows this info but not Telegram (yet). I personally have a big channel (9k subs) and noticed that a lot of cool guys & girls follows me

How to find all blockchain startups

In my latest research endeavor, I embarked on an exploration of the vast landscape of web3 companies to unveil the macro trends shaping the industry. Join me on this captivating journey as I reveal my unique process and methodology. To conduct this analysis, I utilized publicly available data from LinkedIn

How to I use my personal Domain

I lot of tech entrepreneurs has a personal domain for a blog and email. I took a step further and use this for my personal projects. In this article I share my domain okhlopkov.com DNS records and their meanings. 📝 DNS records of okhlopkov.com I use my domain mostly

On-chain USDT usage across popular blockchains

USDT is one of the most widely used stablecoins in the market, with a market share of nearly 50%. This article aims to examine the popularity of USDT across various modern blockchains, including EVM-like blockchains such as Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Fantom, Gnosis, and Avalanche, as well as

Dokku + Github Actions: automatically deploy app with push to repository

I love Heroku Github integration because it can automatically deploy my Python or Node.js app after a commit or PR is merged to master/main branch. But Dokku doesn't have this integration. In this article, I'll show you how to integrate Github CI to deploy your app instantly after

Deploy Elasticsearch & Kibana with Dokku

I really love to use Dokku as it drastically simplifies the deployment of my nodejs and python apps. I also try to deploy other popular open-source apps with it. This is my attempt to deploy ELK stack with Dokku. Enjoy. Install Dokku Install latest [https://dokku.com/docs/getting-started/installation/

Deploy database to production with official Dokku plugins

Deploy database to production with official Dokku plugins

Self-hosted prod deployment with 3 lines of code: Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Redis, MariaDB, Elastic, Clickhouse, RabbitMQ, Rethink, CouchDB and more

How to parse any website

How to parse any website

I'll share my approach which helps me to build reliable parsers of any website. I'm not going to show here actual scripts but I'll describe how I extract the data from any website. It should be useful when you need to decide how and what part of the website should

Run Metabase with Dokku

Run Metabase with Dokku

How to deploy Metabase [https://metabase.com] (open-source BI tool) to production using Dokku [https://dokku.com] PaaS (open-source Heroku alternative). Step-by-step guide Install Dokku Imagine that you have already rent a server for your project. I use Digital Ocean droplets (this is my referral link [https://m.do.co/

Integrate Amplitude with Telegram bot

Integrate Amplitude with Telegram bot

Want to know how your bots are used? Want to measure DAU, retention and build funnels? I'll show you how, with as low code as possible. The problem Websites have Google Analytics, mobile apps have Firebase. Both are really useful to understand how your service is being used and to

Deploy MeiliSearch with Dokku for production

Deploy MeiliSearch with Dokku for production

Run open-source, fast and typo-tolerant search-engine with modern open-source PaaS

Cloudflare certificates + Dokku

Cloudflare certificates + Dokku

How to create and install Cloudflare SSL / TLS encryption for your Dokku app (instead of Letsencrypt).

Measure texts similarity with Sentence Transformers (embeddings)

Measure texts similarity with Sentence Transformers (embeddings)

Imagine you have a lot of objects with text descriptions (users and their bios, tweets, comments) and you need to somehow cluster them: find groups of similar objects.

Deploy Ghost blog with Dokku

Deploy Ghost blog with Dokku

Step-by-step guide on how to deploy production-ready & scalable Ghost.io blog with Dokku PaaS (free & open-source Heroku alternative) on any server. This is how I run the blog you are reading right now.