Fabio Barbero

Last summer, after getting lost on the Monte Rosa with my dad and visiting a friend who became a shepherd in the Pyrenees, I did a bikepacking tour with two good friends of mine.

Back in 2018, I bought a second hand Kobo Aura e-ink reader, for 50 euros.

After spending a lovely week in Bretagne with Gaëlle (yes, she has a website now!)

I'm currently on a train from Berlin to Hamburg.

Well hi.

Where My Side Projects Go: ~/Download/tmp Yes, most of my side projects live in a folder named tmp inside my Downloads directory.

When checking my phone last Friday morning, I was greeted by an email (in German) informing me (after a bit of translating) that Pocket, the service I had been actively using for over 2 years to save blogposts, is shutting down.

Part 1 - an unexpected encounter By now, I have commuted from Brussels to Innsbruck quite a few times.

Introduction This short post introduces a new live visualisation that can be found here, and explains the origin of the data. ✨ Try the online demo here!

Introduction If you've been following my past blogposts, you probably figured that, for my master's thesis, I'm working on the European Passenger Rail Network.

It was a late Saturday afternoon.

Introduction As part of my master's thesis, I want to compute the optimal train route between cities during a certain period.

This is going to be a slightly long introduction, but bear with me.

Introduction 4 month ago, before starting my thesis "on trains", I had never worked in the field of "trains".

Introduction As discussed in my last blogpost, I have been exploring different General Transit Feed Specifications (GTFS) sources to build a railway map of Europe with scheduling data.

Introduction Imagine the following hypothetical scenario: you've given yourself the task to work on attempting to visualize and optimize the rail network in Europe, and now you need to find a way to get transit data.

Short context I spent quite a few months looking for a thesis topic that I'd be interested in working on, to finish my Master.

I replied to Academia SPAM ... and got a nonsensical paper published.

- What are you doing in Montreal?

Today I won a battle.

This blog section of my website has been silent for a while.

What happened this year?

There's a chance you're here after a discussion we've had about music.

Close Vegan Lasagne Recipe Introduction For some obscure reason recipe blogs always have a super long introduction telling the whole backstory of the recipe, so I feel obliged to have a short introduction.

Introduction What is Ludii?

Here is a list of cool people I've met in the past few years.

Making a Signal bot in Python (Linux) Note: This guide was last updated on 29/07/2022.

Why Good question.

I found this old document I wrote years ago, thought I might put it here.