Filip Iulian Pacurar (Filipac)

Every time I walk around my neighborhood — we live in a residential area on the edge of Arad which, technically, is private land, because it doesn’t belong to the city hall yet and the streets haven’t been handed over — I see, especially in spring and sum…

I’ve written before on this blog about how the Diversity Visa process actually works in detail — steps, documents, the interview, all of it.

I’m at Auchan right now, and I thought I’d write this post from here, since it’s directly connected to what I want to say.

Recently we spent 10 days in Italy, a kind of vacation.

Lately I keep seeing it on social media, especially on Facebook: promoting your event with a poster made with AI.

A few months ago I started doing technical interviews for a developer platform that primarily accepts senior web developers.

The last redesign I did on this blog was sometime in 2020, back when COVID was still a thing and I had plenty of free time.

I thought I’d share some reflections on my weight loss journey, which I started back in April (actually, on April 11th to be precise).

Starting today, I’m trying out a simpler (and faster) way of publishing: I’ll post the text version, and at the end I’ll also leave the audio version — raw, unedited — so you can hear exactly how the ideas came out when I first said them.

Every time a new iPhone drops, the internet goes wild.

I’ll try to keep this short because, well, someone actually has to get some work done in this industry.

Here are the updates for DV2025 from CEAC for week #7 for the fiscal year 2025 (Feb 10 – Feb 16, 2025) Direct link where you can also check history.

Here are the updates for DV2025 from CEAC for week #6 for the fiscal year 2025 (Feb 3 – Feb 9, 2025) Direct link where you can also check history.

Here are the updates for DV2025 from CEAC for week #5 for the fiscal year 2025 (Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2025) Direct link where you can also check history.

Here are the updates for DV2025 from CEAC for week #4 for the fiscal year 2025 (Jan 20 – Jan 26, 2025) Direct link where you can also check history.

20 Jan 2024 Apparently, today is Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year.

Here are the updates for DV2025 from CEAC for week #3 for the fiscal year 2025 (Jan 13 – Jan 19, 2025) Direct link where you can also check history.

Since I am a data guy but also a winner of DV2025, I will start posting weekly updates on how things move for DV2025.

For every car I’ve bought, I didn’t think too much about it; I’m not the type who knows cars in detail.

It seems like lately, people are looking for all sorts of new, “free” platforms, but everyone is running away from building their own.