Recent Posts

Elliptic Curves - Bitcoin & Haskell

In this series of posts I’m solving the exercises of Programming Bitcoin1 in Haskell, I’m learning Bitcoin and Haskell in one go. To describe a point in the elliptic curve, we need four data points.
May 2, 2021 4 min read
Elliptic Curves - Bitcoin & Haskell

Finite Fields - Bitcoin & Haskell

Bitcoin’s price has gone crazy up, and now I’m really responsible for learning it. I found the book Programming Bitcoin1 by Jimmy Song, it looks good enough to give it a try.
Apr 17, 2021 4 min read
Finite Fields - Bitcoin & Haskell

Why swim in a river at 0°C?

There are plenty of reasons: Get out of your comfort zone, build character, discover your limits. There are plenty of justifications: Simply crazy, settling a bet, religious penitence/purification. All those might apply, however for me it was a CELEBRATION.
Jan 9, 2021 1 min read personal
Why swim in a river at 0°C?

Getting started with bitcoin

Bitcoin is all over the news, this time with big investors pouring money into it, a global pandemic that put the economy on hold, and governments printing money like crazy. Price raises, it is a bubble again.
Dec 16, 2020 4 min read
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Projects

I work on

Delightful Dying

An alternative take on life and dead planing. Live joyfully, leave joyfully.

Org-cv

Org-mode backend exporters for generating a Curriculum Vita using some \(\LaTeX\) templates.
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Sphinx-Gallery

Sphinx-Gallery is a Sphinx extension that builds an HTML gallery of examples from any set of Python scripts.
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Recent & Upcoming Talks

My cloud, I rule my data and I rule how I communicate

In this workshop I teach how to use the sovereign project. A set of Ansible playbooks that you use to build and maintain you own personal cloud entirely based on open source projects.
Aug 23, 2020 10:00 AM Online
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My cloud, I rule my data and I rule how I communicate

English - The torture of the conqueror

This is a short humorous speech for the Wordstock Festival. I go over the hurdles of learning English as a foreign language and all those language quirks.
Nov 16, 2019 10:00 AM EuroAkademie Nürnberg
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English - The torture of the conqueror

Monitoring bees and more

Held in German, this talk shows how to use Checkmk and about an interesting use case about it flexibility when it is configured to monitory bee colonies and their honey production.
Apr 6, 2019 3:15 PM Hochschule Augsburg, Fakultät für Informatik
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