When comparing cars for personal use, most buyers focus on standard metrics: fuel consumption, reliability, comfort, and resale value.
However, very few consider a much more impactful financial metric:
The opportunity cost of the capital tied up in the purchase price.
Over the past 15 years, Bitcoin has repeated one of the most recognizable rhythms in modern finance, a 4-year cycle of expansion and retracement.
The structure has remained consistent: three years of bull market, followed by one year of correction.
This visualization explores what could happen if that rhythm continues, but with diminishing monthly returns as adoption and market maturity gradually slow the pace of growth.
After years of freelancing in eCommerce and backend development, this summer I made a significant career shift: I joined Onapsis as a Software Engineer III – Python. Recently, I passed the three-month probation period.
This milestone may look small from the outside, but for me it came with important lessons about transition, culture and growth.
In my recent project, I faced a challenge with broadcasting comments in a Ruby on Rails application using Hotwire. The goal was to ensure that unpublished comments would only be visible to the user who created them, while published comments would be visible to everyone. Here’s how I tackled this issue.
After 160+ hours of research, during which Japanese brands consistently topped the list, I unexpectedly chose an American SUV: the Ford Kuga. Here’s how it outclassed the competition, including the beloved Toyota RAV4, in the Romanian market.
Most kids' books don’t teach anything about money, let alone decentralized systems like Bitcoin. Mine does and it is finally available in English on Amazon Kindle: Sophia and the Adventure of the Magic Block.
Most Rails apps do not bother with a custom OpenGraph image. Mine do and they are generated automatically during deployment using Python, Cairo and Ansible.
After over a decade working with Magento, I decided to walk away - not because I couldn’t do it anymore, but because I couldn’t stand why I was doing it anymore.
