I'm Filipus

Food, Music, Wine & Cat Lover

... oh ... and Family too !

I'm a professional amateur

Name: Filipus
Job: Software specialist
Age: Many Years
Residence: Canada
Province: Québec

Been dabbling in the software industry since, uhm let's see... the last century? My main occupation is attempting to stay as current as I can, fending off hordes of young, talented and motivated whiz kids who are way too eager to take my place.

I'm bound to lose that battle at some point, but dammit, I'll go down fighting.

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My Interests

3D Printing

Got this neat Creality CR-10 S that allows me to 3D print all kinds of useless stuff.

Well not all useless, mind you. But let's not kid ourselves: home 3D printers are just great toys for grown-ups.

Programming

I still love to code, though I don't get to do it nearly as often as I'd like. These days, JavaScript is my language of choice, although I rarely use it for web pages since I'm more of a back-end kinda guy. No pun intended.

Fine dining

Yep, I'm one of those sous-vide afficionados. You haven't lived until you've tried thick-sliced, slow-cooked bacon.

Really

Music

Without music life would be a mistake, said Nietzsche who, contrary to popular belief, was not an antisemitic nationalist aryan freak. His sister, however... But that's another story that you can read about on Wikipedia.

Current band I can't get enough of:

The Struts

Older band I can't get enough of:

The Foo Fighters

Dinosaur band I can't get enough of:

Rush

My Skills

HTML/CSS

Cooking

Guitar

Drinking & Eating

JavaScript

Delphi

Singing

My Life

I was born
Potty trained Age 9
What can I say, I was a late bloomer
Went through puberty
First steady girlfriend Age 16 First broken heart Age 16.5
Yeah, well...
Reached Adulthood
First job in software industry Age 19
Started by simply translating software applications from English to French, seemed easy enough. But then I had to learn to code because the damn French sentences would never fit in the space allotted to the English originals. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Co-founded own company
First contract Age 29 Last contract Age 32 First bankruptcy Age 32.5
Some people are just not meant to be successful entrepreneurs, no matter how utterly brilliant they think they are. I am one of those people.
Got a Family
First kid Age 30 Last full night of sleep Age 30
Having a wife and kids is hard work: kids need to be trained on absolutely everything, including fetching me a beer from the fridge, whereas my wife was able to master that skill with barely any training on my part. Perhaps having a single kid and many spouses is easier. Dunno. I'm just throwing' it out there.
Growing old and dying
Date of death Unknown
I may have died already, but no one told me.

Contact Me

I can't provide a web form for you to fill out in order to contact me because this provider won't allow me to access their SMTP server unless I have a paid hosted plan, which, to put it bluntly, I'm too cheap to purchase.

Therefore, if you really really really still want to contact me, use the Wordpress site listed to the right of this paragraph.

Note that even though you are contacting me - and honestly, I question your motivation for doing so - I will feel no obligation whatsoever to reply.

Nor will I feel any guilt if I don't.

Province of Québec
Canada