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Learning A New Programming Language per Year in the Age of AI

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

People don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a new programming language every year, no matter what, and thus here comes yet another update in my lifelong obsession to learn more and more programming languages.

Translating the Formula for Primes to C++ with AI

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Some of you might remember an article I published more or less a year ago, called “Mathematical Curiosities”. In that article I showed an indeed curious formula: the 1964 “Formula for Primes” by C. P. Willans.

Mathematical Curiosities

Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

This post contains some interesting mathematical curiosities I’ve recently learned about.

Hugo in DevOps Mode

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200

As I explained last week I have been updating this website in various ways; I removed the downloadable PDFs, then added privacy-friendly analytics, and finally, I set up a scheduled pipeline in GitLab to automatically build and deploy this website every Friday morning.

Yup, Still Learning a New Programming Language Every Year

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

I gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.

Reusing Apps Between Teams and Environments Through Containers

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0200

This was my speech for the WeAreDevelopers Container Day on February 3rd, 2021. The talk will feature a live demo showing how to build, optimize, and distribute containers to be reused in as many environments as possible, 100% based on the experience of the VSHN team.

Fortune Apps

Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200

As part of my work in VSHN, I lately prepared a set of demo applications ready to be containerized and deployed in our new product APPUiO Cloud.

Polyglot Conway

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100

My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.

Password Hashing in Django

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

This technique can be useful when migrating applications from Django to ASP.NET or PHP, keeping usernames and passwords intact.

COVID-19 Vaccination Progress

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200

The (low) speed of the COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland is infuriating. The current graphs show almost a linear progression. Linear, not quadratic, not exponential. Linear. Fucking linear. They say it’s going to accelerate from now on, well, we’ll see about that.