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A foggy morning in the countryside

The morning laid a mist over the land, shrouding everything in a mystical veil. The perfect backdrop for an undisturbed and witchy session with my girlfriend.

Sturmsucht's Blog & Community · EN

A new social me

How the Fediverse has influenced the way I live my (online) social life now.

Sturmsucht's Blog & Community · EN

Some Tips on Building Business Central Reports

I’ve noticed that many of my colleagues don’t enjoy creating Business Central reports, which is a shame because building a good, non-trivial report can be very interesting and requires more skill the some would admit. Here, I’ve listed a few things I’ve noticed others often overlook when creating reports (whether out of a lack of knowledge or interest). Some tips are straightforward, some are opinionated, but most are not sufficiently explained in books or blogs.

Index on Blog · EN

The Second Dumbest Way to Solve a Maze

You’re probably familiar with The Dumbest Way To Solve A Maze : a method involving the simulation of gas diffusion through the maze’s hallways. I’d like to introduce what is likely the second dumbest way to solve a maze. While this method isn’t inherently dumb (in fact, it involves math that is far from ‘dumb’), it’s so impractical for actual use that it’s simply ‘dumb’ to apply it to maze-solving. The Riemann mapping theorem The Riemann mapping theorem states that for a non-empty, simply connected open subset $U \subset \mathbb {C}$ there exists a biholomorphic f

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Windows sucks

Microsoft Windows operating system sucks. Unfortunately, I am forced to use it at work. It sucks as a day-to-day operating system, and it sucks as a development environment. Every day, it sucks more and more. It takes me at least twice as long to compile the same Go code on Windows as on Linux. My Github actions run 8 times slower on Windows runners than Linux runners . It takes 30 seconds for Outlook to open (my 6 year iPhone can open the Mail application in second or less). Excel startup is equally slow.

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CV Tips from Someone Who Actually Reads Them

Our team was recently looking for a new developer, and I was tasked with reviewing CVs and conducting technical interviews. I’ve done technical interviews before, but this time I first had to go through around 100 CVs and pick the most promising ones. As we are working with fairly unknown technology (a domain-specific language called AL ), we were open to candidates of all levels. In candidates, we look for general backend knowledge and motivation to work on ERP software. Since our search was broad, we got a wide selection of CVs from people with different experiences. However, I noticed &ldqu

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Reimplementing PKCS#11 module

It has been more than two years since I released Baš Čelik , software for reading serbian smart-card documents. After the past two years I implemented everything I originally planned (and more), but one feature was always missing and users kept asking for it: the ability to use the personal certificate from the ID card to sign data. A driver for such functionality exists for Windows, but not for Linux or macOS.

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Administracija servera uz ličnu kartu

Tokom prethodnih godinu dana, radio sam na kreiranju PKCS#11 modula otvorenog koda za srpske lične karte. Motivacija za kreiranje modula bila je pre svega omogućavanje Linux i macOS korisnicima da se uloguju na državne portale poput eUprave ili ePoreza. Međutim, kako je PKCS#11 standard veoma rasprostranjen, neki načini upotrebe otvorili su se o kojima i nisam razmišljao kada sam počeo da radim na modulu. Pre svega, to je potpisivanje (PDF, XML,…) dokumenata, za koje se ispostavilo da radi bez bilo kakvih problema.

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Don't solve my Sudoku

I love solving Sudoku. When I was in 7th grade, I learned to solve Sudoku by myself. Since then, there hasn’t been a week in which I didn’t solve at least one. Fortunately, I found a job where I could solve them every day and get paid well. But I am not in the Sudoku business for the money. I am there just for the Sudokus. I love thinking about problems variations, new and old techniques, comparing problems and finding symmetries in solved boards. Sometimes, when I find a very hard problem and think about it for days, those thoughts spill into my dreams. The following morning, I wi

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Izbori u Srbiji 2026

U prethodnih 5 godina desila se jedna vrsta promene kolektivne svesti. Zanimanje pojedinca za politiku je prešlo put od “tabu teme”, do svakodnevnog povoda za razgovor. Pre deceniju, na političko interesovanje se generalno gledalo sa visine, gledanje skupštine je bilo rezervisano samo za penzionere, a protesti su bili samo za dokone. Danas, politika se spominje u maltene svakom diskursu. U javnom prevozu, kod frizera, u čekaonici u bolnicama, na poslovnim sastancima, u školskim klupama… Svuda se kritikuje trenutni režim, manje ili više otvoreno. Ne postoji nikakva sumnja, da

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So you want to work in cybersecurity

So you want to work in cybersecurity Ivan Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:53

Borderline - (sometimes even overline) · EN

The case for burning counterterrorism operations

The case for burning counterterrorism operations Ivan Mon, 07/08/2024 - 19:39

Borderline - (sometimes even overline) · EN

Cybersecurity and the accountability black hole

Cybersecurity and the accountability black hole Ivan Wed, 07/24/2024 - 14:50

Borderline - (sometimes even overline) · EN

Threat Intel Truths Inside

Threat Intel Truths Inside Ivan Tue, 10/29/2024 - 16:30

Borderline - (sometimes even overline) · EN

On autonomous reverse-engineering

On autonomous reverse-engineering Ivan Mon, 12/15/2025 - 12:20

Borderline - (sometimes even overline) · EN

A serious conversation about Mythos

A serious conversation about Mythos Ivan Sun, 04/26/2026 - 02:20

Borderline - (sometimes even overline) · EN

The case against private-sector hacking (“back”)

The case against private-sector hacking (“back”) Ivan Sat, 08/15/2026 - 17:38

Borderline - (sometimes even overline) · EN

A coolheaded read of Anthropic’s S-1 filing

A coolheaded read of Anthropic’s S-1 filing Ivan Tue, 10/27/2026 - 13:56

Borderline - (sometimes even overline) · EN

Stop Using Embeddings for Everything in RAG

Why deterministic query translation should often come before embeddings in enterprise RAG systems, and how to combine both in a hybrid approach.

Aniss Djellal's blog · EN

Finding the number of intersections between 100 random chords on a circle

A solution for the 3blue1brown's june 2026 puzzle

Aniss Djellal's blog · EN

Introducing Wazn-2B: weighing hundreds of runtime labels without generating a token

A Jev-like decision model with relational scoring, a NONE gate, invariance post-training, and scalable tournament inference.

Aniss Djellal's blog · EN

Defining Success

Nothing happens in a vacuum. Even if a person was a castaway, all alone on a desert island, he or she would still have in mind the approval of people back in the civilisation. Imagine the castaway is fishing. He or she would measure his or her success as a fisher in terms of proficiency, skill, manual dexterity, as seen through the eyes of people back in civilisation. If the castaway became really proficient at making a shelter, finding food and dealing with their desert island world, he or she would imagine the admiration of others. He or she would be proud of how much more ‘real’ they were t

Brushes With The Truth · EN

Calculating Loss In Social Media

How not to mix things up in a world full of casual brushes with the truth – uncaring as to what is real and what is not. In principle it has always been the same for at least some of the population. Now, however, we have reached critical mass. Each uncaring and unthinking person has access to weapons of war. A tweet ricochets off another tweet and spins off into another social media platform. Like a pinball machine full of pinballs, the machine gets hot and melts down. Anger, frustration, good old-fashioned gratuitous annoyance – they have nowhere they want to go except deeper into the furnace

Brushes With The Truth · EN

Notting Hill Carnival

I was out buying stuff and Tamara told me Notting Hill Carnival was on, so I went. Or rather I walked with thousands of others from Paddington. I didn’t get to see the parade, but I saw a lot of people. On the way there a notice by a police van said that facial recognition software was being used. On the way back to Paddington station I looked in the police van and a man was scanning images on a screen, and outside a man in handcuffs was shouting out to his friends – ‘I don’t know why’ and ‘It wasn’t my fault’. I wonder how good the software is? The non sequitur of the two sentences next to on

Brushes With The Truth · EN