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Dimanche sans voiture in Brussels: From Schaerbeek to White Star, Union Scarves, a Pistolet Américain, and Frites Évidemment
Dispatched at 23:42 on Sunday night after 19 communes (and 20+ Walloon towns) traded car horns for bicycle bells, 50 years of Brussels Metro nostalgia, a proper pistolet américain, and a cone of double-fried frites.
Sunday, September 20, 2026 · 23:42 CEST · Schaerbeek, Brussels. [Read More] -
Cloud Security Baselining on Google Cloud: Architecture Framework Alignment, Open-Source IAP Proxy Guard, CodeMender, and the Conductor Blueprint
A practical engineering field guide to hardening multi-tenant GCP organizations, closing unverified local and serverless ports with Identity-Aware Proxy, pruning 97% of scanner noise for AI remediation, and orchestrating sovereign agentic systems across 5 canonical Conductor tracks.
Cloud architecture rarely degrades through a single catastrophic misconfiguration. It drifts by a thousand tiny weekend conveniences: a temporary service account JSON key exported for a CI test, an unclustered audit log dataset quietly burning storage budget, a local development server bound to 0.0.0.0:8080, or an automated vulnerability scanner drowning in half a gigabyte of third-party virtual environment... [Read More] -
Google AI Café Brussels Connected Cup: Four Weeks of Espresso and Agents After the 10,30 km de Schaerbeek Night Run
Dispatched at 22:00 on a Friday night with runner's high in Parc Josaphat: why Brussels' EU Quarter is getting a 4-week Google AI Café pop-up (Sept 21 – Oct 16), and how to join our team's hands-on ghacks.dev ADK Agents workshop next Friday.
Friday, September 18, 2026 · 22:04 CEST · Schaerbeek, Brussels. [Read More] -
Barogroove: When Barometric Pressure Meets years of Scrobbles
Weekend tinkering between espresso pots and rainy Brussels skies: building an atmospheric AI Daylist forge with Vertex AI Gemini 2.5 Flash, BigQuery, and street-art geo-caches.
Some weekends simply hit every single note. [Read More] -
Innovation Needs a Rigorous Foundation: Architecting Your GCP Organization for Security & FinOps with FAST
Why ClickOps dies at scale, how Cloud Foundation Fabric (FAST) brings idempotent IaC discipline, and why 'Protect, Control, Comply/Audit' is our ultimate cloud mantra.
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New York, Twenty-Five Years Later: The Light We Carry Together
From 'Then it went dark. Real dark. Like snow.' to a quarter-century of shared human memory, resilience, and inclusive solidarity across oceans.
Twenty-five years ago today—on September 12, 2001, when the air over Lower Manhattan was still thick with gray dust and the world felt suspended in an impossible silence—I published a poem titled simply New York. [Read More] -
The Agentic Engineering Playbook: Why Your AI Bill is a Roadmap and Your Agent Needs an Architectural Mind
From tokenomics and the Elephant & Goldfish strategy to AI Governance by Design: 10x battle-tested lessons from the frontlines of agentic systems.
