Josef “Jeff” Sipek

This post is part of a series named “Europe 2017” where I share photos from my adventures in Europe during the summer 2017.

In mid-July 2017, I got to travel to Prague to participate in IETF’s 99th meeting.

The IETF meeting itself was great—lots of useful discussion about the next-generation email accessing protocol (called JMAP).

I stayed a couple of days extra to enjoy Prague, and Holly flew out from Helsinki to revisit Prague where she’s been once before—for our honeymoon.

I dragged my D750 and the two lenses with me and made to sure to take photos (almost) all the time. The gallery contains only a handful of the approximately 1100 raw files. Of those, I selected 11 for this blahg post.

 Malá Strana Bridge Tower:

 St. Nicholas Church with the  Žižkov Television Tower in the background:

 Matthias Gate with  St. Vitus Cathedral peeking in the background:

The  National Theatre:

 Charles Bridge and a view of  Old Town:

 St. Vitus Cathedral from  Petřín near sunset:

St. Nicholas Church again during sunset (and without the ugly Žižkov TV tower):

A gargoyle keeping the St. Nicholas Church’s masonry safe:

A view from the top of  Old Town Bridge Tower with roofs and towers of (left to right):

Church of Saint  Francis of Assisi, the left tower of  Church of Our Lady before Týn, the clock tower and the Astronomical tower of  Clementinum:

St. Nicholas Church yet again, this time from the Malá Strana Bridge Tower:

 Charles Bridge,  Old Town Bridge Tower, Church of Saint  Francis of Assisi, and  Žižkov Television Tower (from the Malá Strana Bridge Tower):

Prague offers a lot to see. The few photos I selected for this blahg post don’t show anywhere near enough of it. There are more photos in the gallery, but even those are merely highlights of what one can see in Prague. If you haven’t been to Prague yet, I highly recommend a trip.

It’s been a hectic couple of weeks, and so this post is a bit delayed. Oh well.

A couple of months ago, I decided that it was time for me to move on work-wise. As a result, four weeks ago, I joined Dovecot Oy (a part of Open-Xchange).

As you may have guessed from the name of the company, I get to spend my time making the Dovecot email server code better, more featureful, and otherwise more excellent. It is certainly a significant but fun change—going from kernel hacking on a fairly unknown operating system to hacking on the world’s most popular IMAP server. Not a day goes by where I’m not surprised just how much functionality is in the Dovecot codebase, or when I get to consult an RFC related to some IMAP extension I didn’t even know existed.

So, with this said, you should expect to see some posts related to Dovecot, Dovecot code, and email in general.

Radium-Schokolade (1925) — Radium-laced Chocolate. Sold as something to rejuvenate your organs by eating or drinking it.

Untraceable communication — guaranteed — New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees.

Normalization of Deviance in Software

Michigan Terminal System Archive — It is good to see  MTS live on as a historical curiosity and hobbyist OS.

Researchers uncover JavaScript-based ransomware-as-service — Ransomware-as-a-service…sigh.

imap4 partial fetch request — Sadly, mutt still doesn’t have it. I really don’t enjoy waiting for a large attachment to get downloaded over a slow link just because I want to read the email body.

Mathematicians invent new way to slice pizza into exotic shapes — I am not sure how some of those new shapes can possibly work in the real life without the notches essentially splitting the slice into a pile of mush that cannot be held.