I had to classify some photos based on location and date, and I wrote a simple script combining exiftool and Openstreetmap. [Read More]

Lately, I’ve been playing with Unity and I ended up exploring the world of 3D modeling in Blender. Blender is intimidating and has one of the least user-friendly interfaces I have ever encountered. It’s enough to say that it’s almost impossible to use without learning keyboard shortcuts for even the most basic tasks. However, it’s also such a fantastic tool that I decided to push myself a bit and use it. [Read More]

This blog is written with Obsidian and published with Jekyll. It’s a pretty simple setup, but sometimes the defaults are not great. For example, the feed generation is poor with short snippets, broken formatting, and so on. [Read More]

The goal is to develop an annotation that marks certain functions to execute predefined logic via an Interceptor such as adding a correlationId to the MDC. I also want to place the code in a shared library so it can be used across multiple services. [Read More]

Social networks become toxic the moment people start following each other, not due to trolls or engagement algorithms. It’s baked into the structure of these platforms. According to a study, when individuals follow others, a power imbalance emerges, leading to echo chambers, polarisation, and amplification of extremism. It happens even without algorithms because the nature of social networks inherently promotes a concentration of influence. [Read More]