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.
* Dynamically retrieved from Twitter, of course!
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:
- 2022-05-28: Un mois sans alcool et caféine
- 2022-03-08: Premier café après un mois
- 2022-02-22: Point méditation : 2022
- 2021-06-14: Faire des Zoom en marchant
- 2021-05-05: The Softy
I'm also on Twitter since February 2008.
Here are my latest tweets:
- 2021-09-29: MILES DAVIS - Thirty Years On: The musical legacy of his final decade https://t.co/LdCPDyHxiX
- 2021-03-03: Placebo Effect May Explain Reported Benefits of Psychedelic Microdoses https://t.co/gMwxP2i5oS (I knew it!)
- 2021-03-03: "Bruce Friedrich, executive director of the Good Food Institute, said in comments sent to AFN that the two deals represent “the clearest sign yet that the future of meat will be plant-based.”" https://t.co/wVD1O8AMHR (this is really good news!)
- 2021-01-06: Encore for Keith Jarrett - E. D. Faulkin https://t.co/INsD097Azh
- 2020-12-28: RT @PeterAttiaMD: Psychedelic Santa; The dog that didn’t bark - https://t.co/jfMcdG4xyz
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.
| 2022-04-25 - David Allen guides you through a Mind Sweep |
| 2022-04-16 - Keith Jarrett, les mains du miracle |
| 2022-04-16 - Everything you need to know about psychedelics and mental illness |
| 2022-02-19 - The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back |
| 2022-01-29 - How to Read Fewer Books |
| 2022-06-19 - George Orwell - Animal Farm |
| 2022-05-28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire |
| 2022-04-08 - Luke Burgis - Wanting |
| 2022-02-11 - Milan Kundera - Jacques et son maître |
| 2022-01-29 - Oliver Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks |
| 2022-07-23 - Thomas Quasthoff - Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland |
| 2022-07-20 - Verbier Festival - Église de Verbier, Verbier, Switzerland |
| 2022-07-04 - Björk - Auditorium Stravinski, Montreux, Switzerland |
| 2022-05-22 - Henri Dès - Le Zénith, Château-d'Œx, Switzerland |
| 2022-04-06 - Lana Kostic - Le Club, Cully, Switzerland |
| 2022-05-27 - Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland - Permanent exhibition (incl. Encountering Böcklin) |
| 2022-05-26 - Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein, Germany - Plastic: Remaking Our World |
| 2022-05-25 - Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland - Passages – Landscape, Figure and Abstraction. Gerhard Richter: "Mood". |
| 2022-04-29 - Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany - After Nature |
| 2022-04-27 - Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany - Berlin Global |
| 2022-07-22 - Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter |
| 2022-07-01 - Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull |
| 2022-06-05 - Jon Watts - Spider-Man: No Way Home |
| 2022-06-03 - Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca |
| 2022-05-24 - Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2022-02-13 - Chat Chat - Théâtre de Beausobre, Morges, Switzerland |
| 2022-01-21 - Les Seigneurs des nanos - Pulloff Théâtres, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2021-08-14 - Sektor1 - Carrière des Andonces, St-Triphon, Switzerland |
| 2018-01-12 - Lucrèce Borgia - Pulloff Théâtres, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2017-12-01 - L'Avare - Salle Charles Apothéloz, Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2022-07-25 - Making Sense with Sam Harris - Why Wealth Matters - A Conversation with Morgan Housel |
| 2022-07-18 - Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger - How to Prevent Alzheimer's with Diet |
| 2022-07-18 - Absolutely Mental - What makes us who we are? |
| 2022-07-16 - Huberman Lab - The Science & Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) |
| 2022-07-03 - Absolutely Mental - Where does morality come from? |
| 2022-07-09 - July 9-16, 2022: Turin / Milan / Verona / Stresa, Italy |
| 2022-05-25 - May 25-27, 2022: Weil-am-Rhein, Germany / Basel, Switzerland |
| 2022-04-25 - April 25-29, 2022: Berlin, Germany |
| 2021-07-19 - July 19-August 2, 2021: Schaffhausen / Saint Gall / Grisons, Switzerland |
| 2021-07-05 - July 5-9, 2021: Vallorbe / Bern / Lucerne / Interlaken, Switzerland |
| 2022-06-22 - Inside No. 9 (series 7) |
| 2022-05-25 - This Is Us (season 6) |
| 2022-04-29 - Severance (season 1) |
| 2022-03-03 - Curb Your Enthusiasm (season 11) |
| 2022-02-01 - Sherlock (series 4) |