trips
The Big Apple. New York. The greatest city in the world, as every tour guide in the city will tell you every 5 minutes. I went for a business trip to the USA, to Mountain View, California, but before that I took two weeks of vacation: one in New York
cooking
After spending a long time in the fatty, sugary, GMO, antibiotic-ladden land of the USA, the little daco-hungarian decided to make himself some gulyas, for the first time ever. Here is his step-by-step recipe, with way too many pictures and details about all the mistakes he made. Ingredi
photos
A month ago there was the first ever SRECon in Europe. It got together lots of SRE-like engineers (basically the people who are responsible for the software that is live, running in production) from Google (the host of the event), Facebook, Etsy, Splunk, SoundCloud and others. Because
blog
5 years ago, on this day, I started this blog on Wordpress.com. And here I am, half a decade later, 2^8 posts later. Let me tell you how it all started. I had been planning for a long time to start a blog. I actually even started one
plants
About two months ago, we had a TetraPak gardening class at work. During this class we learned how to seed and care for spinach (left in the above picture) and salad (right) plants in a 1L milk box. But these were just short term "gardening" ex
photos
I was oncall the week that ended in the long weekend of the 1st of May. It was a rainy weekend and I had to stay inside the house, during my shift, but because it was rainy, it wasn't very tempting to go outside even after it. So
cardboard
Google Cardboard is a low cost virtual reality headset made out of cardboard, obviously, two lenses, a small magnet and some velcro. Instructions on how to make one yourself are available online. I was quite skeptical when it came out last year. I'm not a big
trips
On my second day in Geneva, after waking up quite late, Cipri, Alexandra and I went to the Geneva International Inventions Exhibition. It is quite large exhibition, having 790 inventions, from 45 countries, displayed on 8900 m^2 surface. It wasn't entirely what I
trips
Last weekend I went to Geneva, to visit Ciprian, a friend who is doing an internship at CERN. He also happens to be a frequent reader of my blog :D. Before joining the dark computer science side, I was a wannabe physicist. I went to lots of physics compe
zurich
Every year in Zurich there is a holiday called Sechseläuten, that celebrates the end of winter and the coming of summer. It is held on the Monday that follows Easter, so this year it was on the 13th of April (last year it was on the ~30th of April,
trips
During the Catholic Easter holidays, I went to Romania for a one week visit. Initially the plan was that my parents would come and visit me, but I had more days off, so I ended up coming to my homeland. After having been in Switzerland for 7 months now,
blog
New old feature readded to my blog: the ability to subscribe to my posts via email. If you enter your email adress in the form at the bottom of any page, you will get an email whenever I post something new. There is still RSS, but who am I kidding,