personal Yard work Spot camouflaged Roland in the above picture I've spent two Saturdays in the past month doing yard work at my grandparents house. They are still alive, but they are staying
tech DuckDuckGo Some of my more astute readers might have noticed the "word" "DuckDuckGo" appearing several times on my blog this year, both as a noun and as a verb. Contrary to
personal Four months of Bullet Journaling I'm using diary and journal as synonyms. Some people say they are the same, others say there are differences between them. I started keeping a journal when I was in
personal About time Time, or at least our perception of it, is a very interesting thing. It's not only in Einstein's relativity theory that time is relative. I believe most humans feel that days go by slowly, while years fly by. As you toil away at work
networking Bridging networks with a Synology NAS Warning: potentially bad idea ahead For various reasons, I had to reorganize my working setup at home, including moving my home office to the room where my Synology NAS is.
programming An unexpected error in Rust As I continue my journey to learn Rust, I occasionally run into various hardships and difficulties. Most of them are related to lifetimes and ownership, but they lead to a
boardgames Quarantine boardgames: Itchy Feet I haven't traveled abroad in one year. [1] I haven't travelled more than 80 km from home in two months. Considering that in the previous six years I have travelled
programming Context Variables in Python Recently I had to do some parallel processing of nested items in Python. I would read some objects from a 3rd party API, then for each object I would have
TV shows Travelers Travelers is a TV show from 2016. Netflix was promoting it at the time, but it didn't seem too interesting to me back then. Time travelers taking over the bodies
blog Adding search to a static Ghost blog When I switched over to Ghost, my new theme didn't have a search function. Due to a combination of popular demand (read: one friend who asked about it) and me
tech Productivity Tips: Pomodoros I sometimes have periods when I find it very hard to concentrate. When I was working in an office, this was made worse if there were many conversations going on
boardgames Quarantine boardgames: Plague Inc. It's time to see how a virus can spread all over the world and kill a lot of people. In Plague Inc., each players represent a different disease. You can
hiking The beauty of Șuncuiuș - part 2 Six years ago I posted how beautiful are Șuncuiuș and Vadu Crișului. In the meantime, Șuncuiuș has grown to be all the more beautiful, because my wife is from there.
tech On text editors Or why I switched away from Vim. Getting into VimAt my first internship, my mentor scolded me for using RubyMine to edit a Ruby on Rails project, claiming it was
blog Splitting up my blog Considering that I plan to write one post every day for the next 97 days, this will mean a lot of spam for my readers. Most of my personal friends
devops Connecting to Azure Python package repositories Lately I've been using the Azure DevOps platform for code repositories, issue tracking, wikis, CI/CD and for artifact hosting. It's a quite nice platform, the various tools are very
blog Why I Have a Blog In response to a thread on Hacker News, Jan-Lukas Else posted a response to common objections people had to having a blog. Quite a few people picked up the discussion
tech Moving away from GMail tl;dr: I like PurelyMail and I will slowly switch all my online accounts to use it. I've been using it for almost three months and I didn't have any
boardgames Quarantine boardgames: Travelin' Since Romania instituted a general lockdown this week, I haven't really left the house. Not that I normally leave the house too much, nor that I can really leave the
personal Reflections during COVID19 times I was checking up on Twitter and I read a thread about simulations showing that any loosening of the isolation and quarantine measures will inevitably lead to overwhelming of the
boardgames Boardgames Party: Hanabi This time I'm going to present a Hanabi, a cooperative card game. It's super small, can easily be taken on trips to be played between 2-4 players. Each player is
rust Web crawler in Rust I have heard many good things about Rust for several years now. A couple of months ago, I finally decided to start learning Rust. I skimmed through the Book and
TV shows Lost in Space As I have mentioned previously, I like sci-fi. At least I used to. I'm not sure if my tastes have changed or if they don't make them like they used
personal Interview about working from home This morning my friend David Achim, who's responsible for the Oradea Tech Hub, called me and asked me if I wanted to be interviewed about what's it like to work
boardgames Boardgames Miniparty: 7 Wonders Duel Last night, my wife and I wanted to play a boardgame by ourselves. Looking through my collection, we decided to give 7 Wonders Duel a try. The original 7 Wonders
