Have you ever found an anonymous letter in your mailbox, with a riddle leading you into your own home? Here's a true story...
It was the end of November, a cold but uneventful day in the quiet French countryside. My parents had arrived at their country house, the kind of place where time slows...
Continue reading...Have you ever needed a simple, thread-safe scripting language for your application—one that looks like Python but is safe and easy to embed? I’d suggest Starlark.
If you’re looking for a broader overview of the language, check out my previous post: An Overview of Starlark. Here, I’ll explain how...
Continue reading...January 2023 was a chaotic month inside Google. Without warning, the company announced 12,000 layoffs—roughly 6% of its global workforce. Panic set in as employees woke up to find their access suddenly revoked. There were stories of people discovering their fate while on parental leave, others mid-p...
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This blog post is part of a series about my travel stories. Sorry for the delays. This was in November 2023.
After exploring the Republic of Cyprus, I felt an itch to see the other side—Northern Cyprus. This "country" exists in a peculiar limbo, only recognized by Turkey.
Legally, you're suppo...
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After finishing my first half marathon in 2 hours last year, I took a long break from running. Between traveling and taking time off, I didn't train much for a couple of months. But by January, I started to wonder: could I push myself to do a full marathon in the spring? The idea seemed feasible...
Continue reading...I’ve spent over a decade working on developer infrastructure at Google, contributing to areas like the build system, IDE, refactoring tools, and linters. Contributing to the evolution of one of the world’s largest codebases was a challenging task. What might seem like a tiny change can ripple across...
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