citizen428

Solve a crossword for free Byteball coin

According to Byteball's twitter feed they have posted a crossword on reddit and if you solve it and send it to them you will get some free Byteball coin. Here i...

Color challenge — Wednesday yellow: a glass of Bira 91 White

A nice glass of Bira 91 White, an Indian craft beer kickstarted via a crowdfunding campaign:...

Nice book art in Indian bar/restaurant

Creative decoration on the walls of Mineority (no typo) in Pune, India....

Color Challenge — Tuesday Orange — Fushimi Inari-taisha (Kyoto, Japan)

Like I said before, Japan is just ridiculously photogenic. Here's a pic from my first visit:...

Color Challenge - Monday Red - Yokohama temple

Took this last year at a temple in Yokohama's China town. Japan is generally ridiculously photogenic....

Do you fear being revealed as worthless?

Are you afraid that someone else will see you a day and reveal that you're not really as fantastic and skilled as they think? Read and get tips on what you can ...

A Rubyist looks at Crystal (Part 2)

As promised in my previous post this article will cover some of the more advanced features of Crystal, namely macros, C bindings and concurrency. This is a cros...

The best portrait I ever took, despite my camera dying

I took this photo in October 2008 on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Alas at this point the sensor of my DSLR was dying, so there are some artifacts o...

Introductory post

Hi everyone! I'm Michael, but generally known as "citizen428" almost everywhere on the Internet. Born and raised in Austria, I moved quite a bit in the last 15 ...

A Rubyist looks at Crystal (Part 1)

Currently there’s no shortage of new and interesting programming languages. It almost seems impossible to spend any time on Hacker News or Twitter and not see a...