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 how the name sounds, it's not a board game; it's a search
Roland Szabo
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 elementary school. I don't remember what made me start keeping a journal. It was probably the
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 every day,
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. In this room, I had only one Ethernet outlet, but I needed two connections, one for the NAS and one
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 pleasant moment of enlightenment when I figure it out. But for the last couple of days, I struggled with 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 more than 20000 kilometers every year, my feet are itching to travel again. I can'
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 to get it's child elements and do some processing on them as well. A very simplified sketch of
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 of people in the present and trying to continue their lives? Sounds full of awkward and cringy situations,
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 running across a plugin to enable searches for Ghost, I decided to do it today. It was actually
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 around me. With the popularity of open offices, even if two people are talking 20 meters away, you can still
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 be either a bacteria or a virus. Of course, in our last play-through, everyone was a (corona)virus.
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. I've done a lot more hikes in this area and seen a lot more of the great vistas