Vali Petcu blog

I like to watch a few youtubers that mow grass. Some go out of their way to find the tallest and craziest proprieties and cut the grass, because this brings a lot of views, and they make money. Nothing wrong with that. What i have a problem with is when they brag they took jobs from […]

Gmail changed the favicon. Yeap. That was the only thing on their bucket list for 2020. Not deleting accounts that are flagged for sending spam. Not fixing the buggy “send and archive” option. Neah. Those are for losers. Let’s change the icon to a horrible one. Meanwhile, disable direct write and close tab on double […]

Subaru has a hit on their hands with the Crosstrek (it’s called XV in Europe). I have one. 150HP NA engine. It’s decent, but more power won’t hurt. Customers asked Subaru for a powerful Crosstrek. So Subaru had a choice between a 2.5 185HP engine and a 2.4 260HP engine. They went with the 2.5, […]

I have a Panasonic G7 mirrorless camera. If a leave it turned on and put in my bag, it will try to focus constantly in the dark until the battery runs out. I got nothing.

I reported thru Reddit’s own form some content that violates their rules. 8 days later they responded that are investigating the problem. 12 days later, i sent them another email to that ticket, as the content was still there. No response. But 14 days later, i received an email saying that, due to suspicious activity, […]

For more than two months, Facebook has begun to penalize business pages that have negative reviews. And because there are not yet any articles written in English (from where our local social media experts can translate from), I suspect they have begun to apply it only in a few countries, not globally. And it’s a […]

A weird thing happened a few months back: a developer deleted an extension i was using from the Chrome Webstore because he broke up with his girlfriend. Yes, that was a reason. So that made me think i wanted an extension that will include some of the functionalities i use every day that will not […]

An update of an article from 2015 about selling and social media. The people who hate advertising the most are the people who make money from advertising, in some form. They work for a TV station, publisher, media company, adserver company. They usually don’t say where they work, but they hate advertising oh so much. […]

The new version of Gmail brought a few design choices and i can’t help wondering how high was the whole team that did them. One of the changes is “you can’t choose between buttons and labels anymore, gotta pick buttons or labels”. No logic whatsoever. None. But the weirdest is this one: My attention is […]

Ionut Budisteanu is a child prodigy with a carefully crafted image. He is an inventor, a programmer, a visionary, he has numerous articles about him in local and international press.  His accomplishments include a self-driving machine he did not finish, various robots, but one year ago he switched to cryptocurency. He and some other people […]