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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.

* Dynamically retrieved from Twitter, of course!

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.

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:

• 2020-06-27: A Guide to the Good Life: my notes
• 2020-05-03: COVID-19 : le point après sept semaines de semi-confinement
• 2020-04-22: Partager ses voyages
• 2020-04-04: De l'inutilité de l'armée suisse
• 2020-03-29: COVID-19 : le point après deux semaines de travail à domicile

I'm also on Twitter since February 2008.

Here are my latest tweets:

• 2020-11-25: @TheRobEsse I can't remember the last time I listened to an album, from start to finish, without doing anything else (e.g. driving, working, etc.). Maybe as a teenager? Or student? Listening to the latest episode of OBM made we want to do it again!
• 2020-04-27: @captain_says You're not alone. :) I absolutely love "Funky Design", but it's the live version from 9 Sept. 1995 (a.m.) that does it for me. It was on "The Park, Vol. 2" from Moonraker. The studio version is missing the "complete chorus", as you said.
• 2020-02-23: "Apparently very few people actually know how to program a computer" https://t.co/XKpA8HDBsa
• 2020-02-14: RT @buster: Imagine if someone had a button that could automatically trigger your anxieties, fears, and anger whenever they wanted to. Each…
• 2020-01-04: "Plants evolved caffeine to poison insect predators, and yeasts produce ethanol to destroy competing microbes." https://t.co/YH0Rpz8E5e #smbc

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.