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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.

Posted on September 20, 2026

Sunday, September 20, 2026 · 23:42 CEST · Schaerbeek, Brussels. [Read More]
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- Brussels
- Schaerbeek
- Belgium
- Culture
- Cycling
- Hockey
- Union Saint-Gilloise
- Gastronomy
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.

Posted on September 20, 2026

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]
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- Google Cloud
- Security
- Zero Trust
- WAF
- IAP
- CodeMender
- Conductor
- Sovereign Cloud
- Open Source
- DevSecOps
- Architecture
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.

Posted on September 18, 2026

Friday, September 18, 2026 · 22:04 CEST · Schaerbeek, Brussels. [Read More]
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- Google Cloud
- AI
- Agents
- ADK
- Brussels
- Schaerbeek
- Running
- Community
- Open Source
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.

Posted on September 14, 2026

Some weekends simply hit every single note. [Read More]
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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.

Posted on September 12, 2026

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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.

Posted on September 12, 2026

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]
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- jerome-paquay
- poetry
- 2020s
- new-york
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.

Posted on September 5, 2026

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Albert Einstein au Coq-sur-Mer : Pause Relativité à la Mer du Nord

De la Villa Savoyarde en 1933 au parc de la Concession : quand le FOSDEM et l'open source rencontrent le génie de la relativité sur la côte belge.

Posted on August 30, 2026

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Albert Einstein au Coq-sur-Mer : Pause Relativité à la Mer du Nord

De la Villa Savoyarde en 1933 au parc de la Concession : quand le FOSDEM et l'open source rencontrent le génie de la relativité sur la côte belge.