https://www.jrabasco.me Technology, fiction and life in general 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. 2024-05-01T22:09:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/15 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/15 Some silly culinary adventure! Sometimes the answer is closer than one would expect. 2021-12-30T15:43:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/14 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/14 As for most of us, 2020 has been a very weird year for me. This is a small account of the highlights. 2020-12-23T12:11:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/13 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/13 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... 2020-01-18T20:24:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/12 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/12 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. 2019-06-01T17:54:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/11 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/11 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! 2019-03-31T20:36:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/10 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/10 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. 2019-03-03T13:09:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/9 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/9 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. 2019-02-24T22:46:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/8 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/8 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! 2018-07-23T02:07:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/7 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/7 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. 2018-05-13T21:25:00+0000 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/6 https://www.jrabasco.me/posts/6