After completing a PhD and working in the industry for a while, I still find it enlightening to review and read research papers. I'd like to know what the (SE/ML) research community is doing, and I may end up implementing some of their ideas at my job.

I got Canada visitor visa after 9 months. Normally, people get an eTA within minutes. 🙂 If I didn't have relatives and friends living in Canada, I wouldn’t probably bother with this processing time.

I'm traveling to Canada 🇨🇦 to catch up with relatives and friends, and I will also attend the first day of @ICSE 25 to meet some former colleagues and SE researchers. #ICSE #ICSE25

It was wonderful to catch up with some of my friends in the beautiful city of Montreal 🇨🇦 None of us would've thought that we would see each other again in North America. I'll come back to this city if given the opportunity.

The opening session of ICSE #ICSE #ICSE2025

I'm attending only the first day of ICSE'25. It is probably the last one I'm attending. 😕 I'm currently pursuing different research and business interests at work, which is different from the SE and my PhD research. #ICSE #ICSE2025

It's quite ridiculous how many subscriptions are sold for renting/buying a property in the Netherlands...

I wouldn’t personally recommend putting a picture and birth date on a CV. It may cause an unintentional prejudice against the candidate.

I've tried Copilot Agent Mode with Claude Sonnet 4. I'm satisfied with its overall results. It could easily solve some minor coding tasks for my personal project. Of course, it's far from making skilled software engineers unemployed, but it may be one step towards that direction!

I've found "pytest-xdist" quite useful to speed up integration tests. It is a plugin for pytest to run tests in parallel. I've observed several times faster test execution in a project. #pytest

I pay 50 euros for the DSL internet, 50/10 Mbit, which is a 2000s tech. It feels like a scam in 2025. People pay half of this price for a much faster fiber connection.

I've never updated a PC motherboard's BIOS more than 5 times! Well, thanks to Intel and its instability issues in its 13th-gen CPUs. Yet, random crashes are still there, like kernel-level anti-cheat software causes a BSOD randomly...

I was telling some of my friends that I'm missing my PhD days. I had a bit more "freedom" in the work I was doing. Plus, I had more control over my days off without affecting others. Now, for me, things are more serious in the business world! 😃 #PhD

I've started to like GitHub Copilot next edit suggestion. It often fixes mistakes when copy-pasting code. 😃 #copilot #AI

I wrote 1,000 lines of C++ code to command the GPU to draw only a triangle on my screen. Guess what graphics API I used? Vulkan! 😀 #vulkan

One of the things that can ruin your weekend is that your NVME SSD storage is about to fail, and you will lose your (precious) data on it. Thanks to AORUS, this is the second time their SSDs have failed for me in 3 years. 🙂

I've tried OpenAI's open-source model, gpt-oss 20B. It's like using an o3-mini model locally for "free", given a high-end consumer-grade GPU (RTX 5090). Perf. metrics for enthusiasts: - ~150-200 tok/s - 64K context (~24GB VRAM) - CUDA 12.8 runtime #LLM #GPT #OSS