programming
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
tech
Or why I switched away from Vim. Getting into Vim At my first internship, my mentor scolded me for using RubyMine to edit a Ruby on Rails project, claiming it was too enterprisey and that Real Programmers™️️ use Vim and live in the terminal, but the lesson stopped there. I
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 will be bored by my technical posts and most of the people who reached to my blog from Google/Hacker
devops
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 well integrated with each other and they have nice integration with VS Code for example. But
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 and wrote their own blog posts about why they have a blog, including Kev Quirk, who then started the 100