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“If it breaks…” – our new car
For every car I’ve bought, I didn’t think too much about it; I’m not the type who knows cars in detail. I only know that it has to take me from point A to point B, and that’s it. Cătălina is the same as me when it comes to this: you see something, you like...
Life #car
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Your own platform is the safest bet
It seems like lately, people are looking for all sorts of new, “free” platforms, but everyone is running away from building their own. There’s something “unique” about social platforms that makes you feel good: followers. I don’t care about the people who follow me, or more precisely, their numbers. I care about having a place...
Blog #social media #platforms
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The Refrigerator Story
An alternative title would be: How not to rush into throwing money away. One day about two weeks ago, an error appeared on our refrigerator and it stopped cooling at all. It had never done this before, and the error code wasn’t even listed in the instruction manual. To make matters worse, it had just...
Family & Personal

I might be old fashioned, but I think bringing your Bible to the church is important. The Bible is our guidebook, our standard.

If you can carry your phone and wallet to the church or everytime you leave the house, you can bring your Bible as well.

The digital version helps but it is not the same thing, not the same feeling.

Later edit: And yes, my oldest son Joshua reads Romanian and English and he takes his Bible to the Church as well.

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Status Update #aside #scurte
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DV2024 statistics update – 30th of June, 2024
Since the last update on 2024-06-22, here are the things that changed regarding DV2024 cases. Statistics since 2024-06-22 [latest https://dvcharts.xarthisius.xyz data publish] (Generated 2024-06-29 20:12:03.520754 UTC) New 2NLs The 70 2nls on the last report remained unchanged. +---------+----+----+----+----+----+| Con | AF | AS | EU | OC | SA |+---------+----+----+----+----+----+| - | - | -...
Diversity Visa #ceac data #statistics
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DV2024 statistics update – 25th of June, 2024
Since I wrote here that I built a scraper for CEAC data to get statistics more quickly than once a week that Xarthisius publishes here, I will start posting updated statistics in between the “official” ones on Xarthisius’ page. I will try to keep the same format every time I post, but as I perfect...
Diversity Visa #statistics #dv2024
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PHP vs Python – personal experience
I’m a PHP programmer *most of the time*. I started learning PHP first, at the same time as HTML and CSS, and almost daily since then I coded in PHP. The syntax is elegant, you write code fast and it just works, especially if it is paired with a great framework like Laravel. But the...
Geek #python
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Diversity visa 2025 – we won!!!! ✅
It’s May 4th. May the force be with you day. I came back from a round of board games with our friends, and I tried to check if we won the diversity visa. Of course, the website is stuck from the thousands of visits per second, but after a few minutes, I can check. I...
Family Life Life #usa #immigration
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Facebook videos – bad UX?
I absolutely hate the Facebook videos UX. Everywhere you go on the internet, clicking a video pauses the video itself. Not on Facebook. Here, you click the video and it expands and goes to the dedicated video page. Ok, maybe sometimes I want that. But even in those cases, the UX is bad. That’s because...
Tech Online
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A thing that I am working on
No, this is not another side project or something regarding my professional life, it is about something personal. I am working on getting more patience in the traffic, both as a driver and as the right-seat passenger. This morning I was driving back from school and kindergarten and I was really relaxed knowing that I...
Life Car
Diversity Visa

We started timidly, with low hopes but confident that if it's God's will, one day we will move to the United States of America. We participated in the visa lottery for 4 consecutive years and on May 4th, 2024 we found out that we were selected for a possible immigrant visa in 🇺🇸. We owe everything to God, He will help us until the end.

  • DV-2022 - 🔴 Did not win
  • DV-2023 - ❌ No luck
  • DV-2024 - 🚨 Nope
  • DV-2025 - ✅ We were amongst the 1% selected
  • 🕧 Interview ETA - 🕧 Left: days, hours, minutes, and seconds
    • 🏥Medical
    • 👮🏻‍Interview
    • ✈ Flight

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