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Hello.
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Let’s start from the beginning — my parents named me Filip Iulian Păcurar on July 21, 1993, and I’ve been going by that ever since. I’m 32 years old. I’ve been married to the girl who completely changed my life — Cătălina — since September 6, 2015.
On January 6, 2017, I also became the father of a really handsome boy: Iosua.
Then, would you look at that, another little rascal showed up on March 4, 2019 — Caleb. He was Iosua’s first official life partner until…
…until March 14, 2023, when God blessed us with our third boy: Noah. We’re still trying to figure out who he resembles more — for now, mostly Iosua, with a bit of Caleb in the mix.
And guess what, we didn’t stop at three boys — we went ahead and made it an even number of “descendants” — on December 17, 2024, Ezra was born, probably our last boy :)).
Ever since the end of high school, I’ve been working as a programmer at what’s probably the fastest-growing IT company in Arad since 2015 — Web Efficient. During my time there, I’ve built a ton of things and learned even more. I started out as a backend developer, then gradually became the “do whatever needs doing” guy, which naturally turned me into a full-stack developer. Then, starting in the fall of 2016, I became the CTO of the company. I kept writing a lot of code, but I also took on technical decision-making responsibilities.
In 2018, I decided to make a big change. After 5 years at Web Efficient, I left and chose to work on my own, from home. Most of my day is spent working for a really cool company from Canada: Meevo. Alongside that, I also take on smaller side projects. This year marked a pretty interesting phase for me: remote work and IT consulting as a freelancer.
I like having a blog. In 2017, I celebrated 9 years since I started it. I don’t primarily write for people — I write for myself. I love looking back and seeing what I was thinking 8–9 years ago… and I can only do that because of the blog. I’ve shared beautiful moments there, like when we got engaged, but I’ve also written during tougher times. I see the blog as my public personal journal, so sometimes it’s just photos, quotes, or really short posts. I’m not always in the mood to write a 200-word article, but I can easily grab my phone and post a quick update — on my blog, not on Facebook.
I’m passionate about programming in general, servers, and everything on the geeky side of things. The server running this blog was configured by me. I’ve never taken the easy route when it comes to hosting — like using free blogging platforms. I’ve always believed the blog is mine and should belong 100% to me. At one point I was tempted to move it to Medium, especially when my colleague Laurențiu Culda started blogging there. But instead, I chose to customize my theme to resemble Medium. And that’s it — I still fully own my blog.
I think I’ve rambled enough — not sure how much you actually read 😄 — but here are a few quick, easy-to-digest facts about me:
- I’m an Apple fan — especially won over by the iPhone
- I like Lenovo laptops
- My main programming language is PHP
- I love my wife, Cătălina
- I’m a proud dad of Iosua, Caleb, Noah (and Ezra!)
- I used to be CTO at a cool agency in Arad
- I like Twitter
- I like Telegram
- I enjoy managing my own servers
- I’ve gained quite a bit of weight lately and need to lose it
- I live in Arad
- I have the best family
- I’m Baptist
- I work a lot with WordPress
- I really love Laravel and October CMS
- I’ve had this blog since 2008
- I work remotely, from home and from various places
- Since 2016, I’ve been working exclusively on a MacBook
- I worked 5 years at the same company before going solo
etc. etc. (I’ll keep updating the list over time)
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