About me

My name is Olivier Bruchez. To make it short, here's my Twitter bio*:

"Software engineer living in Switzerland, working at EPFL, passionate about software development (incl. Scala), science, technology, philosophy, music, and more."

You can find more information about me on my profile page or in my CV / résumé.

About this website

This site is meant as a central repository for my public lists and documents, which were previously stored on Github, Google Drive, etc. It was also an excuse to start a new programming project, using Scala, Play, Akka, and more.

Most of the content on this site is stored on Github, but some of it also comes from external APIs such as the Blogger API or the Twitter API.

Blog

I have a blog on Blogger since September 2006. It is not completely integrated with this website yet, but I'm working on it.

Here are my latest posts:

What have I done lately?

The last books I read, concerts I went to, movies I saw, etc. Yes, I'm a list addict. This is a recurrent theme on this site.

2025-10-15 - How Should We Do Drugs Now?
2025-07-24 - The Problem of Marital Loneliness
2025-04-15 - Every Arthouse Buff You Know Is Pirating Films
2025-01-22 - A nuanced and multifaceted approach to longevity research
2024-10-11 - Royal Appointment: Recording Prince
2025-11-23 - Colette - La Chatte
2025-10-22 - Marguerite Duras - Moderato cantabile
2025-08-29 - Rutger Bregman - Moral Ambition
2025-05-09 - Dino Buzzati - Le Désert des Tartares
2025-03-18 - Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity Is Nearer
2025-12-02 - Lamomali - Arena, Geneva, Switzerland
2025-12-02 - Alex Montembault - Arena, Geneva, Switzerland
2025-11-02 - Aldebert - Arena, Geneva, Switzerland
2025-10-15 - KNOWER - Magazzini Generali, Milan, Italy
2025-08-01 - Brad Mehldau - Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland
2025-11-01 - Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland - La Pologne rêvée
2025-09-27 - Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland - De Rembrandt à Van Gogh - Collection Armand Hammer, Los Angeles
2025-05-17 - Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland - Trésors du Petit Palais de Genève
2025-01-19 - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland - Matisse – Invitation to the Voyage
2025-01-19 - Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland - Permanent exhibition
2025-12-06 - Paul Grimault - Le roi et l'oiseau
2025-11-26 - Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
2025-11-20 - Robert Altman - Images
2025-11-17 - Jim Jarmusch - Dead Man
2025-11-17 - Nicolas Roeg - Don't Look Now
2025-11-21 - Chaplin - Opéra de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2025-11-16 - La Distance - Salle Charles Apothéloz, Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne, Switzerland
2025-10-03 - La réunification des deux Corées - Théâtre du Jorat, Mézières, Switzerland
2025-08-30 - Alice revient au Jardin des Merveilles - Château de Vullierens, Vullierens, Switzerland
2025-04-03 - Emma, c’est moi ! - Pulloff Théâtres, Lausanne, Switzerland
2025-12-02 - Dwarkesh Podcast - Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
2025-11-27 - Dwarkesh Podcast - Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
2025-11-25 - Your Undivided Attention - Rethinking School in the Age of AI
2025-11-24 - The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett - Kamala Harris: America Is At Breaking Point & I'm Deeply Concerned About The State Of The Country!
2025-11-24 - Your Undivided Attention - Feed Drop: "Into the Machine" with Tobias Rose-Stockwell
2025-11-28 - November 28-30, 2025: Zürich, Switzerland
2025-10-15 - October 15-16, 2025: Milan, Italy
2025-09-20 - September 20-22, 2025: Basel, Switzerland / Europa-Park (Rust), Germany
2025-08-07 - August 7-10, 2025: Center Parcs Les Trois Forêts, Hattigny, France
2025-06-28 - June 28-July 14, 2025: Québec, Canada
2025-12-05 - Black Mirror (series 7)
2025-07-03 - Party Down (season 3)
2025-06-06 - The Last of Us (season 2)
2025-03-21 - Severance (season 2)
2025-03-13 - Bref. (season 2)