About
Well, hello there and thanks for stopping by!
My name is János Rusiczki and this is my personal space on the Internet, but you probably figured it out already. The guy posing in front of his computer in the photo above is me, you caught that right too. So it would be around time to get down to some lesser known facts:
The basics
- Birthday: April 17, 1979 (my exact age).
- Location: Baia Mare, Romania.
- Working as: Ruby on Rails developer for Globant.
Contact details
- E-Mail: janos rusiczki net (just add an at sign and a dot).
- Telephone: Please ask.
Random things, all about me
- I’m married to Ioana and we have a daughter Anna, born on February 8, 2016.
- I like dogs almost as much as I love cats.
- I love tea
but don’t really drink coffee- I started drinking coffee on a daily basis around the year 2020. I ditched my Cola addiction in the spring of 2014- And then it returned.- I used to try out new beers, but then I stopped drinking alcohol completely around the summer of 2015. After around three years I had to try some new beers and drank one beer almost daily for about a year. Then I had a break, then drank again, then again a break and so on. I had the last consistent break in 2021 when I didn’t drink alcohol for the whole year.
- Musicwise I used to prefer electronic (dance) music (not EDM) but nowadays I’m more like an omnivore.
- I don’t really like horror or violent movies. Except if they’re directed by Tarantino.
About the site
Back in the day, the first iteration of this site was built using Movable Type with lots of customizations and homebrewn scripts. Original color palette help by Meister Adnan with additional styling and some header graphics done by Lucian. The link blog section, when it existed, was powered by delicious via their sweet RSS feed (delicious was dead for a long while - and then it returned in some sort of crippled read only mode). This was by far my favorite layout.
In the second iteration it was built upon WordPress with a fairly customized template. You can find more information about the upgrade in this post.
Nowadays, as a sort of a back to the roots statement, what you’re looking at are HTML files generated by Jekyll from these sources. Read about the switch.
Statistics
rusiczki.net now rocks 668 pages of content with 179,898 total words, written across 24 years since the very first post on December 20, 2002.
Posts average 269 words each — at 200 words per minute, reading the entire archive back-to-back would take roughly 15.0 hours. The most prolific year was 2003 with 184 posts.
The only year with zero posts so far? 2020, of course.
Top 5 longest articles
- Cronici Calculatoricești - Primele PC-uri și două Mac-uri — 7,905 words
- 2013 - Marea retrospectivă — 3,305 words
- Cronici Calculatoricești - CIP — 3,047 words
- János the vib… prompt engineer — 2,858 words
- Cronici Calculatoricești - Limbo — 2,764 words
Top 5 most prolific months
- February 2003 — 37 posts
- January 2003 — 36 posts
- April 2003 — 35 posts
- December 2002 — 31 posts
- April 2008 — 28 posts
Top 5 longest gaps between posts
- 574 days between Roxette and Cronici Calculatoricești - CIP
- 416 days between Rusiczki Anna Olívia and Cea mai populară poză de-a mea
- 380 days between 20 de ani de rusiczki.net and Narnia din curtea mea
- 345 days between A4 - Două concursuri și o bandă and Roxette
- 262 days between Generația a patra and My adventures in social coding
Top 5 most-used categories
- technical — 165 posts
- life — 161 posts
- general — 128 posts
- web — 120 posts
- blog history — 47 posts