Personal Essays

When a proprietary charger goes missing, you can either wait for a landlord or grab a 3D printer and a soldering iron. This is a manifesto on why building crooked prototypes out of scraps is better than being a passive consumer.

2026 turned out to be a year of harsh realizations. From bureaucratic nightmares in Spain to the cold math of relocation, here is why walking away from a €60k offer was the only logical choice for a senior engineer.