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Back to the Basics: Why a Programmer Moved to a Farm

Maria Yanchauskayte on October 02, 2019

How a developer started an eco settlement in East Belarus. By Georgy Novik. Hi! My name is Georgy Novik, Iā€™m a back-end developer at Skyeng. My j...
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Tam Sylte

I love your post - I also just recently relocated. Our original dream was to do something with the land like you do but being close to 60 years old, my wife and I revised our goals a little. We have a small city lot with a big house in a small town, and have also left behind so much of the big city life that was toxic. We're reclaiming a small garden space on the lot, and working on building the lawn into a bee lawn. Small scale but something we can do to give back. And on top of it, I'm a better developer because of the wonderful life style!

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George Novik

Thank you and good luck!

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Maria Yanchauskayte

Thank you, Tam! It was our first experience with this kind of article on dev.to. I will look forward to your story!

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Manggala Pramuditya Wiryawan

How do you get the internet?

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George Novik

The nearest cell is about 6 km from us. So good directed antenna do the job.

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Bak3y

How challenging was it to get reliable Internet connectivity out on a farm like that? Here in the US, you can basically forget broadband coverage of any speed once you get out of town.

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George Novik

We have almost solid coverage in Belarus with HSPA and DC-HSPA+ with an external antenna of course.

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Gabriel Guzman

Very cool!

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Chris C

Maria,

if you could help me realize my dream of living on an Alpaca / llama farm , with a few honey bee hives, I would be forever grateful! ;) haha

Thanks for the post

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Maria Yanchauskayte

Chris,

Thank you! Let's keep in touch. Maybe I'll find for you a good llama farm ;)

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Chris C

That would be the dream! šŸ˜Œ I'll connect with ya.

I have a feeling that by age 40 I'll be tired of server farms and ready to retire on an actual farm...

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Kevin K. Johnson

I thought this was going to be a joke culminating in the URL: eie.io