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:
- 2026-01-25: 2025 en chiffres
- 2025-12-07: Laisser le cerveau respirer
- 2025-10-19: Comment je me vide la tête depuis plus de 30 ans
- 2025-08-31: Ecrire sur n'importe quoi 2
- 2025-02-22: Top IMDb : 2 ans plus tard
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.
| 2026-06-27 - But good sir, what is electricity? |
| 2026-01-15 - Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting |
| 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 |
| 2026-07-24 - Shems Bendali Quintet - Cinéma de Verbier, Verbier, Switzerland |
| 2026-07-17 - Gregory Porter - Montreux Jazz Lab, Montreux, Switzerland |
| 2026-07-17 - Charles Lloyd - Montreux Jazz Lab, Montreux, Switzerland |
| 2026-07-16 - Marcus Miller — We Want Miles! - Montreux Jazz Lab, Montreux, Switzerland |
| 2026-07-16 - Billy Cobham's Time Machine - Montreux Jazz Lab, Montreux, Switzerland |
| 2026-05-24 - Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM), Paris, France - Lee Miller |
| 2026-05-15 - Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland - Isao Takahata |
| 2026-01-18 - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland - Yayoi Kusama |
| 2026-01-17 - Spielzeug Welten Museum, Basel, Switzerland - Permanent exhibition |
| 2026-01-11 - Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Monstrueuses / Tisser son temps |
| 2026-07-24 - Louis Malle - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud |
| 2026-07-18 - Phil Lord & Christopher Miller - Project Hail Mary |
| 2026-06-07 - Enrico Casarosa - Luca |
| 2026-05-15 - Daniel Chong - Hoppers |
| 2026-05-13 - Chris Columbus - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
| 2026-06-19 - Dracula - Théâtre du Jorat, Mézières, Switzerland |
| 2026-06-02 - La Colocataire - Pulloff Théâtres, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2026-05-24 - Le Roi Lion - Théâtre Mogador, Paris, France |
| 2026-05-03 - Moustique - Petit Théâtre, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2026-04-26 - Le grand concert de Broadway - Théâtre Barnabé, Servion, Switzerland |
| 2026-07-25 - Making Sense with Sam Harris - Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award - Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins in Conversation |
| 2026-07-24 - Making Sense with Sam Harris - The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into - A Conversation with Alain de Botton |
| 2026-07-24 - Violet - Le Podcast sur Prince et le Minneapolis Sound - VANITY 6 & APOLLONIA 6 : Prince et ses drôles de dames |
| 2026-07-15 - Making Sense with Sam Harris - Artificial Intimacy - A Conversation with Paul Bloom |
| 2026-07-13 - Making Sense with Sam Harris - More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More |
| 2026-06-27 - June 27-July 12, 2026: Croatia / Venice, Italy |
| 2026-05-22 - May 22-25, 2026: Paris, France |
| 2026-04-13 - April 13-17, 2026: Tyrol, Austria |
| 2026-01-16 - January 16-18, 2026: Basel, Switzerland |
| 2025-11-28 - November 28-30, 2025: Zürich, Switzerland |