Ukrainian Online Stores

General Purpose https://yevshan.com/ https://kootaooma.com/ http://ukrainianorbitstore.com/ https://soyuzivka.com/shop/ Clothing, Jewelry, Accessories https://www.ukiestyle.com/ https://ukieology.com/ https://kelowna-kozak.square.site/ Tantsi https://thedancestore.ca/product/mens-ukrainian-dance-boot/  (Men’s red Boots) https://thedancestore.ca/product/womens-ukrainian-dance-boot/ (Women’s red boots) https://www.postmarkukraine.com/dance-footwear (Men’s and Women’s red boots & shoes) http://www.costumesbypaul.com/Ukrainian_Dance_Costumes_By_Paul/Boots_and_Footwear.html (Men’s and Women’s red boots, black boots, & Postoly) Knicknacks https://ptashkamarket.ca/ https://uaartsy.com/ Pysanky See https://danielcentore.com/pysanky/ Ceramics https://ukreations.ca/

Bandura Resources

Learning to Play Mishalow’s Resource Handbook Shtokalko Kharkiv-style handbook Shtokalko bandura songbook Recordings of Shtokalko playing Bandura magazine parts 3-4 (including Introduction to Bandura Part II) Technical Resources Changing a Chernihiv string String gauges (Chernihiv, baby Vetzal, Vetzal Poltavka, Honcharenko Poltavka) Manufacturing Vetzal construction video One of the last Chernihiv manufacturers Banduramaker Old-world manufacturing Skliar […]

My PHP Dev Environment

Howdy! Most of the sites I build are in PHP, built on top of WordPress or MediaWiki, as I can build these fairly quickly and host them cheaply, requiring minimal maintenance. It took me a while to come up with a comprehensive setup, so I hope this helps someone in the future! CodeAnywhere (Starting at $8/month) […]

Pysanky

I’m frequently asked about pysankarstvo resources. I’ve tried a number of suppliers and outlined my recommendations below: Traditional Kistky Best: Wax Art Supplies – Hot Tipz Almost Electric Best for Children: Ukrainian Gift Shop – Delrin Handles Budget: The wood-handled ones almost every supplier sells Electric Kistky Most comfortable: Ukrainian Gift Shop – Luba’s Electric […]

Recovering FreeNAS Corrupt Flash Drive

This is rough documentation from when I was recovering a FreeNAS server. I could not access the ZFS filesystem, as per most instructions, because some of the sectors were bad and it wouldn’t load. Extracting the config file Used DDRescue-GUI to dump an image of the drive Wrote a very quick and dirty script to […]