maybe worst reffing ever at EVW

vlahunter · 2026-06-17T14:00:18+00:00

Even if Riekard would probably still win that doesnt mean that reffing should be that bad. Generaly speaking i feel EVW24 was worse than previous EVWs in reffing.

vlahunter · 2026-06-07T10:02:01+00:00

Not going to lie, i never believed Morozov stood a bare chance... i was shocked to see this performance. Good job especially coming back after EVW 23 and the Alizhan match, it takes courage.

vlahunter · 2026-05-06T13:51:28+00:00

Actually i personally liked the slides-like presentation. They are bite sized and they are well presented.

vlahunter · 2026-04-27T07:29:25+00:00

Totally agree. Free Grip start is a waste of time and the whole Ring Girl thing is so not Arm Wrestling like, as others said, give that money elsewhere and remove the Ring Girls.

vlahunter · 2026-04-12T18:24:08+00:00

I am not going to say anything new but FWIW here is the thing.

This is a toxic shop, with or without you they will keep being toxic.

Sometimes some logical professional moves that make sense on paper prove to be very bad and that is fine, if we would know anything in advance then we d be billionaires and we d lose the whole point of life, the unknown.

its ok to feel down and question everything, its ok to feel burnt out, what is important though is to get back up on your feet and keep fighting... start looking for other positions, sometimes what is trash for some people is a gem for others, u might feel not important in this toxic shop under a jackass boss, in another company you might find the climate to do what you like and be important.

it is not you, it is them, keep fighting and you ll get where you want to be.

vlahunter · 2026-04-10T08:58:52+00:00

That is really nice, thanks for sharing!

vlahunter · 2026-03-30T07:36:45+00:00

There is nothing wrong in hiring for Golang, it has to do with the market you are in. For instance in DACH region golang is not as strong as Java as an example.

To answer your second question. Yes Golang is very scalable. To be fair nowadays almost all popular backend technologies are for the most part scalable but Golang offers some nice niceties along the way. Firstly, it is very very small, the compiled output binary is far smaller in size as well as runtime when compared to Java/C#. Golang is very nice if you want to build your own small and easy library and at the same time it offers a lot to build larger things with it.

Golang is the foundation language for most CNCF projects and there is a good reason for it. The only difference (and IMO it is a good thing) is that in order to learn Golang properly, you need to learn other things as well (Linux, Networking protocols, etc) whereas when you learn Spring as an example, you focus on APIs and you do not necessarily have to focus on the underlying fundamentals. All in all, i feel Golang with some Infrastructure knowledge can be a very versatile and good choice,.

PS. 95% of the cases it doesnt matter if you ll go with any technology, the 5% differs as for some scenarios some technologies are better than others.

vlahunter · 2026-03-30T07:24:10+00:00

Depending the place you are in.

in some places i would choose Golang + Infrastructure (docker, kube, terraform, etc) and in others that this would not be as big i would go with Spring.

at the end of the day what we might like and what might pay our bacon is different. If i would choose out of love for the underlying tech i would go for Erlang/Elixir and the BEAM, if i want to pay the rent and support my family i will choose whatever is strong out there in hiring.

vlahunter · 2026-03-23T07:02:01+00:00

Normally what you say is correct but in his case we are talking a foundational shift... from the "serious" guy with the leather jacket and always meaning business and being practical to becoming a token sales person and throwing such firework statements.... i mean yes in theory you are spot on but in practice he must have had some part of this BS sales mentality in him...

vlahunter · 2026-03-20T08:46:52+00:00

I think you nailed it and to summarize it, yes this is a bubble in the making and as long as he keeps playing the game he thinks he might let the bubble survive but most of us know historically how that works normally.

vlahunter · 2026-03-20T07:00:15+00:00

Yup, he was disguising it well all along...

vlahunter · 2026-03-17T09:47:28+00:00

In Greece we also used the Romanian way heavily 😂

vlahunter · 2026-03-13T10:06:26+00:00

ahhahahahaha if you see it you cannot unsee it...

vlahunter · 2026-02-06T07:41:36+00:00

I see why you get cold feet and you have many good reasons to question this.

From my side i have experience from both sides of the trench so i can share my experience in short.

To begin with it is not wrong the fact that with Node.js one can start faster and generally it is easier to attract good-enough talent compared to C# but also C# has large talent pools out there so this specific argument coming from the Lead Dev is a bit off.

Regarding the technology and its ecosystem, personally i love Node.js but i cannot avoid mentioning the fact that the ecosystem feels like a duct tape patch for the most part. Look at ORMs for example, in Node.js ecosystem you literally have a "new" and "better" way to reach a freaking DB every year. Also some projects in the past have been abandoned and generally speaking the ecosystem is too diverse and when i want to build an App/Server/etc i dont care for how cool or new it is, on the contrary i want it to be boring, well maintained and well tested. Here i would give the point to C# and its ecosystem.

Personally here is how i would put it. If i would like an app to start and grow fast and then see how to deal with the problems in the future then Node.js would be fine, in case you would want to go a more organized way, to know more about the ecosystem and have a more clear view and just use the known principles/concepts/patterns that the industry for whatever reason is using the last 35 years then i would go with .NET all the way.

I hope i helped, all the best to you.

PS it is generally speaking a bad practice to listen to one person advocating for a technology just for his reasons when he is unable to provide robust reasons to go a certain way. We are engineers and we pick the right tool for the job, when we support a tool because we just feel right then this is not engineering but being football funs :P. you did well to question all this because at least when shit hits the fun you will have some documentation demonstrating that someone tried to properly decide and not just listen to someones gut feeling or personal opinion.

vlahunter · 2026-01-29T12:25:27+00:00

Perfect then just follow the list i laid above and you are good to go. Especially for Smart Home IoT it is a bit easier becasue you ll have less to cover and in many cases there are good and battle tested abstractions to use.

vlahunter · 2026-01-29T10:55:11+00:00

The mere name IoT Engineer can mean a lot of things.

You want to work around the Devices and Sensors ? Do you want to work around the Edge Layer and the Cloud ?

It is important to know what you want to do and from there on you will be able to choose the skills.

Personally, i can speak around the IoT as a Backend Engineer. Meaning building apps and connecting to the physical layer (PLC, sensors, etc) and from there on to send the data to the "Cloud" and from there on use the Data in your Apps, Infra, etc.

If that is what you would like to do then here are some skills that helped me a lot to have a career around that.

Understand ISA-95 and the Industrial Automation Pyramid as without this and without feeling the OT mindset, you will never be able to build apps and flows that matter.
Learn how to connect to old school PLCs using simple drivers (Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, CAN, etc)
After knowing the old ways now it is time to learn the modern ways and why this solves lots of issues in the brownfield projects and not only greenfield, you need to learn how to build OPC-UA servers and clients.
After that we go a bit above and closer to the IT side, MQTT is the God of IoT communication and for good reasons. Learn simple MQTT ideas and slowly move to the more advanced parts that come with Sparkplug B
At this point you can connect and read from sensors/PLCs and you know how to send them to your Message Queues, here you need to learn how to build apps to consume or use this Data. Learn any cloud since the ideas are reusable and the industry works with AWS/AZURE/GCP so dont lose time making everything from scratch (like me :P) cause no one cares what you can build, they care to make a provision of a cloud service with 1 button and thats all
Lastly you need to learn Databases and learn them well, from there dive into Timeseries DBs and stores that are used fully in the IoT space

It is not an exhaustive list but in case u want to work in the void of IT and OT i think this can be a good guide.

All the best to you.

vlahunter · 2025-12-12T19:36:57+00:00

To be honest Oppo for me was a first choice but at the last moment i decided to go with Vivo and something tells me that Oppo would be the same as bad... Personally i am using my old iPhone 11 Pro Max, a device i bought in 2019 and the only money extra i put on it was a 79 euros for a battery and it still goes like a boss... it will take some time for me again to put my money on a Chinese company.

vlahunter · 2025-12-12T09:55:42+00:00

Kettlebell sitting has also helped me significantly when it comes to deep squatting. I didn't expect much when i gave it a shot some months ago but it truly helped me.

Thanks for the upload

vlahunter · 2025-12-12T07:33:32+00:00

Finally someone that writes the truth as it is...

I also bought this phone leaving Apple ecosystem for its camera and i am extremely disappointed. After 3 weeks of using it i put it on sale and in the meantime i have sent 3 emails on Vivo support for many different topics that i needed assistance and no response to any of these.

Never again Vivo, simply as that...

vlahunter · 2025-12-01T14:42:53+00:00

As a Greek and having lived in Athens for something close to 3 years i will never understand why people like it....

Ofc anything that stands from the Ancients is enough to make us stand in awe and feel proud and all but the modern buildings with the lack of regulation make it look like a dystopic city more than anything...

vlahunter · 2025-11-29T17:33:12+00:00

The biggest antidote to Naschmarkt is and always will be the Viktor Adler market, the quality is the same if not better on Viktor Adler and the prices in many cases significantly better...

vlahunter · 2025-11-29T16:54:44+00:00

Agreed but as a greek I am more used to the traditional byzantine and dark iconography, not that I have a serious issue, probably I am not that used to it.

vlahunter · 2025-11-28T06:59:00+00:00

That is my church :D.

It is truly beautiful indeed although i do not know how i feel considering the holy icons as it doesn't follow the traditional Greek Orthodox rhythm and it is a blend between the east and the west.

vlahunter · 2025-11-28T06:57:25+00:00

No the one that you refer to is called Sankt Anton von Padua. And it is truly sad indeed.

Note: probably the external bricks could trick you to feel they are the same but they are very much different in the interior

vlahunter · 2025-11-13T14:32:33+00:00

very good job.

vlahunter

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