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The most important disclaimer in this post is that I don't have any particular idiot in mind, and even the people that might come into examples sounding like idiots in the moment, surely had highs and lows, and this is just one of the lows.

Lots of disclaimers coming your way, folks, buckle up.

After 6 years, a global pandemic, 5 years in a job which resulted in having 2 mentors, 2 promotions and a redundancy, 6 months in another that resulted in another redundancy, and for the first time in my career, a month and a half break between jobs[^1],…

If you are building your homelab or you are dabbling with self-hosting, you might have come across the burden of keeping things up to date.

It sounds fairly specific, but you can abstract the takeaways.

In the limbo of waiting for what's in the cards with an upcoming re-org and the yearly planning, I've been playing with some tech, because why not.

I've been collecting songworms[^1] for a while now.

I'm a month away from the end of my current employment, and six weeks from the start of my new gig.

It took me 2 years to get a satisfying solution, but in my defense it didn't take me 2 years to figure it out, I was just too lazy to do anything about it (not sure that helps my case).

In my previous post on the topic, I went through why and how I wired up a Windmill self-hosted instance to a Postgres DB to funnel all the data powering this website from the various sources – Letterboxd, Storygraph, etc.

Since I moved to Astro, I found new pleasure in adding features to this website.

I'm having a lot of fun with Caprover.

A while back, I started writing about my pet projects.

I need to save somewhere the recipe of our homemade pizza, so here it comes: Ingredients for 4 people water 550g sourdough 150g salt 15g flour 800g Dough In a large mixing bowl, mix together 550g of water and 150g of sourdough until the sourdough is disso…

I've always perceived a tension between myself and task driven folks.

I normally don't take part in events like indie carnivals or blog challenges, but this one hits very close to home.

They say not to make it about you, which is fair if someone else is taking a shorter straw.

Don’t remember the last time I just “surfed” the web [...] it’s just googling and looking at social media now. [...]

As a person who speaks regularly 2 languages, I've always struggled a bit to find the right framing of my presence online.

I started maintaining a Today I learnt repository[^1] when I moved from tech lead to full on Engineering Manager about 5 years ago.