personal
While this may seem like a New Years Resolution kind of post, I assure you, it's just a coincidence. In December I read two books about productivity. The first one is by Tim Challies, a Christian pastor and very prolific blogger,
reviews
The Christmas party organized by Google in Zurich this year was... drumroll a private Star Wars: The Force Awakens screening. They rented out half of Arena Cinemas for half a day and they invited all Zooglers to watch the movie. Normally I don't go to see movies in
reviews
Back in April, after my trip to Geneva, I realized I needed a camera. Just using my phone to take pictures wasn't going to cut it. No matter how good cameras in phones get, they still have a small sensor and a fixed lens, so in many conditions
ssl
Let's encrypt is a new Certificate Authority, started by Mozilla, EFF and University of Michigan, that will offer free SSL certificates, with an easy setup. I had an attempt previously to set up SSL for my website, from StartSSL, but I... acciden
programming
Recently I wanted to take a look at some personal data that I had been collecting for several years (Quantified Self and Lifelogging ftw :D). Until now it was sitting there write-only, with me occasionally peeking at it manually, but because it was
trips
In September I went to Belgium to work in a Google datacenter, near Mons, for two weeks. I took the opportunity and used the three weekends to wander around and visit a lot of places, including three capitals: Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris (hence the title of
presentation
Good news everyone! I will give two presentations at the Babes Bolyai University in Cluj on the 21st of October. The first talk is aimed mostly at students and I will be talking about what I do as a Site Reliability Engineer
trips
Alcatraz, where my childhood favorite movie was set, The Rock After a week in New York and another one in hot, humid Richmond, where I had a very blessed time due to who was there, I finally arrived to the official destination of my trip: Mountain View,
personal
One year ago today I was discovering, to my shock and horror, that my laptop's charger doesn't fit in the Swiss socket. My phone charger did, but the laptop plugs pins were 0.25 mm thicker, so they did not. Several hours earlier
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
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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.