Cristian Livadaru's Blog

My personal view on things

Time to pull the emergency brake

Starting a business is easy, running it and not getting torn apart is the hard part and most often we tend to dig a hole all by our self and notice it much too late. Here is my story on this matter.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Friday, June 19, 2020

Perfect Sunday?

It’s a warm and windy day, not the bad Vienna kind of windy day where the wind will rip your head off, it’s a slight breeze, not cold but stilling cooling and refreshing from the suns heat.Everything is silent, the streets are almost deserted, much more so then usually on Sundays. This is perfect for riding the bike to the playground, something I have wanted to do for a long time.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Sunday, May 10, 2020

Dear Austrian Bookstores, we need to talk!

Trying to do the right thing and buy local, avoiding big corporations isn’t as easy as you think. I noticed this trying to buy some books locally.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Sunday, May 3, 2020

Simple Burger Buns

Austria isn’t a burger country, of course, you find places where you can eat burgers but can’t find good buns you could buy if you want burgers. So the only solution is to make it yourself.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Sunday, May 3, 2020

The reopening of playgrounds

Having kids during this Corona pandemic is a completely different challenge. I won’t get into this, parents will understand what I’m talking about.But now things are starting to open up again. Is it good? Is it bad? We’ll have to wait and see.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Friday, May 1, 2020

Assets missing in Rails Docker container

So you’ve deployed your new shiny rails app as a fancy docker container in production … but what’s that? Where the f* are all the assets?

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Why we love Málaga

My wife and I have been traveling to Málaga since 2007. There are so many memories we made and so many more to be made, so many adventures and short mini-trips to so many places in and around Andalusia, Málaga will always have a special spot in our hearts.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Building toys with raspberry PI

Trying to come up with something useful build on a raspberry to teach my daughter about tech and coding.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Friday, September 20, 2019

I don't like running

When kids tell you the honest unfiltered truth

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Monday, August 26, 2019

What's the hurry

always on the run, always trying to be faster, loose less time, run, speed, don’t stop. But why?

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Monday, August 26, 2019