I own my family name as an internet domain with several country codes. It’s not every day you get to claim your heritage in the digital world like that. However, this seemingly harmless act has turned me into an unexpected recipient of a rather peculiar type of email: the multilingual ransomware scam. My inbox, normally… Read More »
This Vlad the Impaler meme might be a dark joke, but it highlights a point LinkedIn influencers often make: it’s never too late for a new chapter. Vlad didn’t start his… unique career until his mid-30s. We see inspiring stories of people finding success later in life, proving that career paths aren’t always linear. Influencers… Read More »
It’s surprising how many people want to invest without fully understanding how banks, brokers, stock exchange, fintechs works. Let’s break down some key concepts:
I had a bit of an epiphany today. Picture this: me, sipping coffee at some decadent resort in a warm country, contemplating the great existential dread of our time – AI taking all our jobs. It’s the big scare, right? Skynet’s coming for our spreadsheets and our artisanal cheese-making gigs. But you know what? It… Read More »
When archiving a big database it is very important to free up space after that. After running the archival scripts that basically deleted old data from the production database, some extra steps were necessary to actually clean up the used space in the database. To first check how much space we still use after deleting… Read More »
Some websites require to obtain the time-zone from the client browser in order to correctly display some information. This is not always critical but in case you are using some web hosted e-mail or calendar account this is important. One day I noticed that suddenly all my tutanota.com mail calendar events were completely off by… Read More »
Sometimes you need to inspect the content of a text blob in Oracle. Yes, if the content is not a text then this does not make sense, but often times we insert in a blob field a really long text like an XML content or JSON content of a document. What we need to do… Read More »
Lately I have seen several good Twitter thread that resonated very well to my own conviction. Traditional media is dead. The printed press, the TV news, the traditional news agencies are all now just chasing the clicks, the sensational, the tabloid news. The quality of reporting is abysmal, the angle of the news is always… Read More »
I was reading lately some materials about sales in banking and it struck me that there is also a “language” specific to selling stuff to premium customers, both companies or individuals. Some of them I knew without knowing that I new them: that is called experience 🙂 Basically avoid all the words related to money,… Read More »
My only trip to Africa in 2024 came as a last minute request almost at the end of the year. As I was starting to prepare mentally for the end of the year, I got a request to help out another team. You know that kind of request you get on Thursday asking you if… Read More »