https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/web, windows, iradi letters and talas internet Kündölük 3.4.2enhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2017/04/moving.html Sun, 02 Apr 2017 21:15:00 +0600bloghttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2017/04/moving.html I'm moving my blog to my own domain soon, so this is the last post here. Kündölük was good to me. Thanks to whoever still runs it; the servers have not gone down once this year, which is more than I can say for mine.https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2017/03/handing-over-my-clients.html Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:40:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2017/03/handing-over-my-clients.html I gave the sites of my freelance clients to a former classmate who now has the time. 22 sites, each with a one-page note: the host, the login (paper only, handed in an envelope), who the owner is, what the owner likes, what the owner hates. The note about the toikana owner says only "Do not take…https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2017/01/fourteen-small-things-i-learned.html Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:20:00 +0600webhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2017/01/fourteen-small-things-i-learned.html A list, because it is January and I have time, the snow is deep, the bus is late. The client's "small change" is never small. A photograph by the owner's nephew is a photograph by the owner's nephew. Try gently. Always ask who will write the texts, before the price. Empty page "Coming soon" is…https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/12/first-two-months-at-toylo.html Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:30:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/12/first-two-months-at-toylo.html It is a real office, on the second floor above a dentist. Eleven people. The coffee machine is better than the one in the shop, and the router is better than the router at my house. The best change: I work on one product, not on twelve sites with twelve uncles. The hardest thing: the daily meeting…https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/09/an-offer.html Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:00:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/09/an-offer.html I had a conversation this week with a startup in Talas. The name is Toylo, and they make an online booking for toikanas and wedding halls: you choose the date, the size of the hall, the menu, and pay the deposit. The founder, Meder Kasymov, found me by my old site for the wedding hall (the one…https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/06/please-do-not-use-your-phone-number-as-the-passw.html Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:15:00 +0600webhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/06/please-do-not-use-your-phone-number-as-the-passw.html Three sites I fixed this month had the same weak point: the admin password was the owner's phone number. The number is on the shop sign. A person walking past can open the control panel. Rules in the simple Iradi style: Not a number, not a birthday, not your child's name. Three random words you…https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/05/backups.html Sun, 15 May 2016 22:00:00 +0600webhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/05/backups.html A client's hard drive died. Three years of photos of weddings. No backup. We got 60% back. Please: two copies, two places. Your cousin's flash drive is not a place.https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/02/a-year-with-invoices.html Sun, 14 Feb 2016 21:50:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2016/02/a-year-with-invoices.html It is a year since I stopped being the "man who knows computers" and became the "man who sends invoices". Numbers, for the record: 14 sites built, 9 redesigned (the toikana is on its third design), 31 emergency calls for "the site is down" (24 times it was the client's router), 2 clients who paid…https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2015/10/three-clients-moved-to-com.html Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:40:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2015/10/three-clients-moved-to-com.html Done this month: the guesthouse (Alatau Heights road), the language centre and the shop for school uniforms. Steps are always the same: Buy the .com with a card (the owner's cousin in Almaty has the card; this is an honest sentence about real life). Copy the site. Check every link, because 40% of…https://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2015/08/my-iradi-spellcheck-list.html Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:00:00 +0600windowshttps://blog.attelkom.net/nurlan/2015/08/my-iradi-spellcheck-list.html I collected 1,400 Iradi words that Word underlines in red. Uploaded the list for everyone. Add it to your custom dictionary and Word will stop shouting at you. Corrections welcome in comments.