hiking Visiting Romania: Șuior I have to admit that I haven't seen too much of my home country. I've set foot in at most half of the counties and I've actually visited and done
boardgames Boardgames Party: Azul Last weekend I played a fun game called Azul, which has won many awards, among which the famed Spiel des Jahres in 2018. The name comes from "azulejos", Portuguese tiles
docker Getting rid of vmmem A while ago I noticed in Task Manager that there is a process called Vmmem running and it's using about 5-15% CPU constantly. A quick duckduckgoing revealed that it's a
productivity Note taking with Obsidian After starting to use spaced repetition more actively and being more consistent with my journaling, now I've tackled improving my note taking skills. Over the last couple of months, I've
reviews Battlestar Galactica I finally did it: I watched one of the best TV shows made in the last 20 years (at least according to a list made by the New York Times)
kubernetes Showing current Kubernetes cluster in Powershell prompt After nearly clearing the wrong Kubernetes cluster, I decided to add the name of the currently active cluster to my Powershell prompt. There are plenty of plugins to do this
camping Going camping I have never been camping in my life. I slept once in a tent in my aunt's backyard, with my cousins, but that doesn't count. This year I've decided it's
tech Giving code presentations I sometimes give talks at the local tech hub in the city where I live. It's not a big community, but I enjoy giving talks and they often provide a
blog An update on 100 Days to Offload It's been almost two months since I have started the #100DaysToOffload challenge. During this time I have managed to write 25 blog posts, which is more than I wrote last
reviews Pixel 3a I've been a long-time fan of Google-made/branded phones. Back in 2014, I got a Nexus 5. Then I moved on to a 5X. Then I explored the other side,
blog How Much Does It Cost To Run This Blog? The current meme/trend/fad blog post topic in my blogroll is about how much it costs to run a personal blog. So here are my costs per month: Service
tech My operating system journey Getting started with LinuxTen years ago I was writing how I'm a big fan of Windows (and Android). I would regularly get into friendly debates with Cătălin, who was a
programming Playing Codenames with Rust I love playing board games. I love machine learning. I love Rust. So why not combine them and do something really fun? So I ran a word vector analogy query
boardgames Boardgames Party: Codenames Lockdown is over, time to play some games that work well in larger groups, such as Codenames, which is a very fun game to play, but it requires language skills.
blog Happy decennial anniversary! Well, this has happened too: ten years of blogging. I feel like it's only yesterday that I wrote the 5 year anniversary post. Some things have changed in the meantime,
personal New desk setup Last week we were at my in-laws for a couple of days. We got back home late on Thursday. As I went upstairs, I took my backpack containing my work
boardgames Quarantine boardgames: Pandemic The pandemic is "over" in Romania (or at least, the most severe lockdown is over), so it means we won the game of Pandemic :) Pandemic is a game were there
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
