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 very spontaneous decision, seeing an article about it at 7 PM, watching a trailer at 7:10 and
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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. But that is something that everyone told me to expect, that initial estimates are wrong. That is possibly the only
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 call to action). Was ist los mit Roland? The biggest thing that happened was that con
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 expune Adrian Papahagi.
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 700 participants last year). Here in Oradea it's smaller, around 100 people, most
hiking
Old Man's Cave
The next target for our hikes was Peștera Bătrânului (Old Man’s Cave)1, which is close to where my parents-in-law live. We knew the cave was closed to tourists, but the views on the way there were supposed to be pretty. We left on foot on a Saturday morning
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Backing up 3: Syncthing
A while ago, I mentioned how I back up my valuable data to my NAS. In the mean time, I added one more thing to it: a UPS[1] so even if the power goes out, it still says up and more importantly, it can shut down safely. This is
boardgames
Boardgames Party: Splendor
One of the games that we recently played a lot is Splendor, a game with some really neat tokens, representing precious stones, and where the rich get richer (almost like in real life xD). The objective of the game is to get 15 prestige points. You get
programming
NAS Outage #1
Incident scope: NAS user not able to access Web Interface for NAS Incident duration: At least 30 hours, up to 72 hours Incident resolution: Change router port Last weekend I was not at home. Some time on Saturday afternoon, I wanted to access some of the self hosted services I
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Books of 2018
Inspired by many of the posts I saw on the blogosphere about how people did in their reading challenge in 2018, I decided to do a short recap as well. I started 12 books in 2018 and I finished 10 of them. This is unusual for me,
hiking
Man (and car) versus nature 2
Almost a year later, I went again on a winter hike, with the same group of friends, to the "Biserica Moțului" Peak, close to Padiș. This time I was one of the drivers, so I went with our little Skoda, with 3 other guys. Because this hike was
blog
2018 in Review
In 2018 I finally managed to buck the trend of writing fewer and fewer posts: I wrote 22 posts, just like in the previous year! That's a bit less than what I would have liked (at least two a month), but personal life keeps getting busier and busier.