I am Jeremy, I am a software engineer and this is my blog.

My Thoughts on Vanguard and Why I Won't Play LoL Anymore

1 May 2024

Today Riot Games started forcing people in my region to install Vanguard in order to play League of Legends. It has been a long time coming and I wanted to take the time to post my thoughts about the situation somewhere.

Culinary Serendipity

30 Dec 2021

Some silly culinary adventure! Sometimes the answer is closer than one would expect.

My 2020 in Review

23 Dec 2020

As for most of us, 2020 has been a very weird year for me. This is a small account of the highlights.

The Humble Pi

18 Jan 2020

I recently read a very good and inspiring book about math mistakes. In his book "Humble Pi", Matt Parker, a well known math youtuber, tells us about math mistakes and how they affected the lives of many. It inspired me to reflect on my own mistakes...

Escaping monopolies (or try)

1 Jun 2019

A few months ago, Microsoft decided to adopt chromium as a renderer for Edge. This made me reflect a bit more on how much of a monopoly Google has on the web. This post tells the story of how I tried to avoid the Google monopoly.

A sweet sweet trip!

31 Mar 2019

After having to sadly cancel our nice Venice escapade, we managed to salvage it quite efficiently with a sweet sweet trip to Bath! We saw Stonehenge and met friends the next day, we regret not going to Venice, but we were still very happy!

Things I have learned since leaving university

3 Mar 2019

When leaving university, most of my projects had been done over a relatively short amount of time and a limited scope. This post explores some of the things I have learnt by working in the industry.

HTTPS, HSTS, why I care and why you may care

24 Feb 2019

I like reading and learning about internet security and good practices. This article proposes an introduction to HTTPS and HSTS and explains why we should care about it.

Chi va piano va sano e va lontano!

23 Jul 2018

Some thoughts on taking things slowly. This is about my struggles to build new habits and just do what I want or need to do. Sometimes you just have to take it slow!

Time

13 May 2018

After a weekend camping in the south of France without any access to internet or device displaying the time, I got inspired to write this short story about my impressions. This is partially fictional.