Mar 22, 2024

vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media
Last year after talking for a while with someone during a conference they asked me for my LinkedIn to be able to connect with me, to which I answered I didn't have one. It was many years ago when I decided to leave social media. I don't miss it. Instant …

Nov 23, 2023

Collecting pins
It started innocently about one year ago as I was looking for a gift for a friend. We played a lot of League of Legends and Ragnarok Online back in the day, so I wanted to give him something to remember that. Eventually I came across these pins: Poring/Poporing …

Sep 29, 2022

Meeting the Linux community at my first ELC
This month I attended the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, which was co-located with the Open Source Summit Europe, and took place in Dublin, Ireland. This was my first time attending a Linux conference in-person as a contributor and it was a very special experience. This wasn't my first ever in-person …

Aug 29, 2022

Moving the blog to Codeberg
As someone who cares about FOSS, I'm always happy to move to a FOSS alternative when one shows up, provided there aren't any big drawbacks. Back when I was in University and starting to learn the ways of Git, I only knew about two Git hosting options: GitHub, the mainstream …

Jul 20, 2022

Using emojis in matplotlib
Last month, as I was writing the blog post with all the statistics for the blog's two year anniversary, the "Blog statistics after two years" post, I decided that I really wanted to have a plot with emojis. From the moment I thought of this I knew it couldn't simply …