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I finally got my Permis B (driving license) in Belgium and why it was the most difficult and annoying thing I've done.

Of course I need to put my opinion on the matter out there.

NOTE: I know the cover image has nothing to do with this post, I just found it in my photos and thought it was pretty One thing I wanted to document somewhere is a finding I just while I was working on a project.

I wonder what that Jacques video is about?

TUI BSOD

A little more than two years ago, I started experiencing a very unique feeling, the sort of complex emotion that’s hard to put into words, but that I’d describe as a “bittersweet, existential, anxiety-inducing nostalgia.”

Setting up an OCI account with a minimal IAM setup that can be used with TF (IaC) Today, I will attempt to: Open a new OCI (Oracle Cloud) cloud account Create the necessary IAM resources to be used by TF Test it out All of this within 10 minutes (excluding

Setup a basic managed Kafka (message queue) on AWS: MSK Today, I will: Setup an AWS MSK (Managed Streaming for Kafka) cluster.

Setting up a new GCP account with a minimal IAM setup that can be used with TF (IaC) Today, I will attempt to: Open a new GCP cloud account Create the necessary IAM resources to be used by Terraform/OpenTofu (for this channel !)

Setup a simple storage bucket resource using IaC Today, I will: Setup a basic storage bucket through tf In less than 10 minutes Prerequisites An active AWS account: Make sure to check my previous video/post where I setup a brand new AWS account and config…

Setting up an AWS account with a minimal IAM setup that can be used with TF (IaC) Today, I will attempt to: Open a new AWS cloud account Set up their recommended IAM structure Create the necessary IAM resources to be used by TF Test it out All of this wit…

Reflections on moving to Belgium.

Basic Fit !

My journey of maintaining a 1000-day streak on Duolingo learning French

Reflections on Github outages and reliability.

A fun bash script prank using text-to-speech

Some advice for junior DevOps engineers starting their careers

It’s time to restart Dubai

Update on enabling IPv6 support for my blog.

Tragic day for gym bros

Questions I want answered by developers.

Exploring the HumanOps mantra.

Introducing whatip.info, a simple Go program.

No sync’ing for the bidding

Verify OpenSSL TLS cert <> key Added: 24-08-2026 Verify key is valid openssl rsa -in key.pem -check -noout # RSA key ok Match cert and key openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in cert.pem | openssl md5 openssl rsa -in key.pem -modulus -noout | openssl md5 # mat…

I really, REALLY, don’t want Alphonso Ads in my TV, thanks.

Someone forgot to auto-play that VLC playlist

Write a bash script to calculate the frequency of each word in a text file words.txt.

Reflections on my experience with a TIA.

Here’s a list of the main tools I use to work (2017-2026 ): ( This means I no longer use it) Currently learning (2026 ): More on Python More on React Native/Expo UPDATE (2023-2024) FastAPI: FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for b…

Hey 👋, I’m Oscar.

A guide to creating your own npm card.

My journey to obtaining the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification.

Setting up PiHole on a Raspberry Pi Zero W for network-level ad blocking

Reflections on moving from Mexico to the UK.

Implementation of the Merge Sort algorithm in Go and Javascript.

A deep dive into recursion in programming.

An incredibly short Fibonacci function in JavaScript.

By listing the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6th prime is 13.

The sum of the squares of the first ten natural numbers is, $$ 1^x1D2 + 2^2 + … + 10^2 = 385 $$ The square of the sum of the first ten natural numbers is, $$ (1 + 2 + … + 10)^2 = 552 = 3025 $$ Hence the difference between the sum of the squares of the fir…

2520 is the smallest number that can be divided by each of the numbers from 1 to 10 without any remainder.

A palindromic number reads the same both ways.

The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29.

If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9.

Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms.

Mi experiencia después de tres meses sin usar Facebook

Exploring the concept of chatbots.

Guía para crear un proxy utilizando Tor.

Exploring the concept of ICOs.

A collection of notes on Solidity programming.