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
blog Blogs are best served static Or there and back again. Earlier this month I moved to Ghost. I did that because I wanted to have a nice editor, I wanted to be able to write
blog Moving from Acrylamid to Ghost When I decided to move to Ghost at the beginning of the month, I realized that I needed to act quickly, because I've kept postponing this for years, so either
reviews Books of 2019 So, I have good news and bad news about my book reading habit in 2019. The good news is that I've read more Christian books than other kinds of books.
blog Moving to Ghost After about 5 years of blogging using a static site engine, I decided to move back to a normal blogging platform. I guess there really is nothing new under the
boardgames Boardgames Party: Rival Restaurants Rival Restaurants is a game I ordered on Kickstarter. When ordering from KS, it's always a bit of a gamble, but my wife loves cooking, so I figured she will
review 2019 in Review This year something happened that has not happened in a long time: no posts at all during for two months (June and July) :( Most months I also managed to post
memory Cracking the human memory I’ve never had a particularly good memory, despite what others might claim. While many times others are astonished that I remember something, often I am
reviews The Rise of Skywalker The grand finale for the Star Wars trilogy of trilogies is here. Or not so grand, because I went to see it in Oradea on the second day after it
boardgames Boardgames Party: Tokaido I've bought Tokaido about two years ago. I've opened it about a year ago, but I was quickly overruled by the others, who probably wanted to play a game they
git Git tutorial - part 3 I wrote my last Git tutorial 6 years ago, but I guess it took me quite some time to learn some new Git tricks. At work we have a mi
hiking The iron path After a half year break, the little band of hikers from our church decided to do some via ferrata routes, in the Vadu Crișului and Șuncuiuș area. I’ve wanted
conference John Lennox in Cluj This week, Edictum Dei invited another one of my favorite Christian authors, John Lennox to give a presentation in Cluj. Unlike last year, for the N.T.
TV shows Better than Us Добрый день. Меня зовут Роланд! It just happens that in the last month I’ve discovered two masterpieces of Russian art: one is the Red Army Choir, the
reviews Ad Astra Another space movie came out, so of course I went to the cinema to see it, just like I did with Gravity and Interstellar. It was a
house Digging myself a hole As I mentioned in my previous post, construction has started on my house two months ago. Things are going pretty well, despite being behind the first estimated schedule.
job Breaking Radio Silence I don't think many people noticed, but I haven't written a new post in almost three months and my last post was not too meaty (a campaign poster and a
personal Vot 26 Mai This post is about the europarlamentary vote and a referendum in Romania Și votez Da la ambele întrebări de la referendum, din motive similare cu ce
events HackTM Oradea Last weekend was HackTM Oradea, a hackathon that started in Timisoara. Last year they went to Sibiu and this year they came to Oradea. In Timisoara it's quite big (over
