I started the 2024 with an intense training program for the 20 km of Lausanne. I moved to a new place, I rode my new bike as much as I could and I started a new job. Fortunately, next to all these changes in my life, I could still find some time for writing.

Articles

In April, I reviewed The Stupidity Paradox, a book exploring the role of functional stupidity in contemporary organizations. I liked writing this article because it helped me to internalize the content of the book.

At work, I heard many complaints about software quality, but nobody could define what quality meant for them. I decided to review the chapters on quality from Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering. When I shared this post with a friend, he immediately suggested me to read The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In this book the protagonist becomes insane during his quest to define quality. In the article I cite seven attributes which form a working definition of quality for software teams without risking madness.

In the summer, I had some time between jobs to tinker in my Homelab. In this article I explain how I use my Raspberry Pi Camera module with NixOS.

Finally, as in the past few years, in December I spent my free time solving the Advent of Code puzzles.

Books

I read Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past series in English: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Death’s End. I found these books less captivating than the Expanse, the last big science fiction series I had read. Instead, I enjoyed watching the Netflix TV adaptation.

During vacation, I found Jack London’s Martin Eden on a public bookshelf. A random pick that became my best read of the year: after a thousand pages of science fiction the story of a struggling autodidact writer came as a breath of fresh air.

Thanks for reading my blog and happy 2025!