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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 #ceac data #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 #php
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Diversity visa 2025 – we won!!!! โœ…
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 #diversity #usa
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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...
Online Tech
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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...
Car Life
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My Stages as a Programmer
I don’t know about other programmers, but I find myself in two stages quite randomly. 1 – I love programming. It’s the stage where I feel like the world can change with my lines of code. The stage where I say, “Wow, this is cool, I can automate this because I know programming, let me...
Programare Work Life Geek Tech #work #job

For the first time since… forever, today is the first time when I left home for a few days and forgot to pack my laptop’s charger.

Luckily, this thing charges with any USB-C cable and I have a power brick that is able to charge it, slower than its original charger, but at least I can work.

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Status Update #aside #scurte

Is it just me, or anybody likes the coffee to be lukewarm or even cold? I hate hot coffee, I cannot properly feel the flavour.

So I make my cup of coffee and let it sit for 30 minutes or longer. Change my mind.

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Status Update #aside #scurte
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Why do I like to continue listening to “canceled” people
There’s an increasing trend nowadays. A person makes a mistake, or there are allegations that the person did something bad but nothing is yet proven. Guess what, I also made many mistakes but I am not famous enough and nobody cares. So why do we feel the urge to blame and cancel people for their...
Life #cancel culture

A little update to this post

I got the T-shirt on the 19th of July, a few days before my birthday.

The Romanian post used to be slow, but it arrived in a decent amount of time.

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Do you know what’s tricky when you have a blog? Keeping it updated.

It is easier to post on Twitter… but no more!

I want to control my content, so I will be more active on the blog again.

Even if no one reads my posts, this is my personal public journal.

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Status Update #aside #scurte
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 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ. We owe everything to God, He will help us until the end.

  • DV-2022 - ๐Ÿ”ด Did not win
  • DV-2023 - โŒ No luck
  • DV-2024 - ๐Ÿšจ Nope
  • DV-2025 - โœ… We were amongst the 1% selected
  • ๐Ÿ•ง Interview ETA - ๐Ÿ•ง Left: days, hours, minutes, and seconds
    • ๐ŸฅMedical
    • ๐Ÿ‘ฎ๐Ÿปโ€Interview
    • โœˆ Flight

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