Upgrading to Django 6: Everything That Went Wrong
Six months, 500+ containers, one brutal outage, and a WebSocket migration that nearly broke everything. A war story about upgrading a massive telehealth platform from Django 3 to Django 6.
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Articles by Ian Gabaraev on software engineering, full stack development, bioacoustics, DSP, machine learning, React, Python, and cloud architecture.
Jordan for Digital Nomads: Holy, Expensive, and Worth Every Dinar
From sleepless nights in Amman to 25km walks through Petra — Jordan is not cheap, not easy, and not for everyone. But it has something most nomad destinations do not: soul.
The Tale of an Unknown Bat: Field Recording in Vietnamese Caves
Hunting for bat calls with a 256kHz ultrasonic microphone — from neighborhood parks to pitch-black caves in the Marble Mountains.
My First 200ft Dive Was My First Close Call
Side mount diving gave me confidence, redundancy, and perfect trim. It also gave me the audacity to solo-descend to 60 meters — and learn why the ocean does not care about your gear.
The Bat Sonar Project: Hearing What We Cannot
Introducing an open-source ultrasonic bat detection system — where math, physics, programming, and machine learning collide.
Beautiful, Brutal, Honest — The Other Side of Nepal
Nepal is stunning. It is also dangerous, polluted, heartbreaking, and boring after dark. Five reasons remote work in Nepal will never go mainstream.
The Himalayas Called — And I Answered with a Laptop
Remote work in Nepal sounds insane — until you try it. Affordable, connected, serene, and utterly unlike any digital nomad destination you have been to.
Why Bats? A Scuba Diver's Path to Bioacoustics
From hunting in darkness underwater to building ultrasonic bat detectors in Vietnamese caves — the science of echolocation.
Building NomadAtlas: A Finance Dashboard for Digital Nomads
How I built a personal finance and lifestyle dashboard using React 19, Vite, and real-time APIs.
Building a Real-Time Ultrasonic Bat Detector with Python
Capturing bat calls at 192kHz and using DSP techniques for species identification.