Posts by Mihail Moroşan
One must always have main quests and side quests.
Main quest is doing your job, or taking care of your family, or both. Very simple.
But side quests? There’s so many options!
One of mine this year was to get over 100 interviews done.
And with a couple of weeks before deciding to leave Helsing, I had hit 102.
Oh yeah, I also left Helsing a few weeks ago. I want to take a month as a break to just chill and work on some personal projects while sleeping normal (by Mihail standards) hours again.
Given the amount of “Oh, just saw / heard that you left” messages I’ve been getting (about 2 per day for the last few weeks), there’s a high chance this is how you, former fellow Helsingeroo, find out.
Around late November I’ll look out for what the next great thing will be.
If you want to work with me, let me know what your quest is!
Stay tuned for eventual news on a new project of mine.
Most details available by following me on Mastodon ( kind.social/@Mihail ).
I really really really care about the quality of the products I use. And that transfers to the products I am working on delivering.
As a result, I care a lot about testing strategies. Especially performance testing.
So I wrote down my current views on the topic, for anyone curious, or anyone wanting to learn some basic concepts.
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I hope everyone’s had a very relaxing week. Especially IT admins and security experts.
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You can clearly tell there are multiple teams not communicating on what features they are delivering.
When’s #vutuv adding “N people viewed your profile. Wait, no, N*2+7 people. Wait, actually it was 12 bots in a trenchcoat and your ex.”?
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I love open source. It has made my projects a lot better.
Someone found a bug? One of three things will happen: they just accept it (the status quo), they raise an issue (lovely! Gives me information to help solve it), or they just put up a fix themselves (lovely! Gives me the fix).
With traditional closed source software you barely have 2 out of those 3 options. And that’s if you’re lucky and they have a proper way of raising issues directly to developers and not through some labyrinthine customer service. Which might, or might not, be just an LLM bot pretending to try and help you.
Yes, a few peeps found some bugs in the Home Assistant integration I maintain and fixed them. Wonderful people!
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9/10 entrepreneurs say that replying to this post with your favourite thing that happened in the last few weeks is a great idea and will have massive returns.
Who am I to disagree?
I’ll go first: got to see my amazing wife rescue a tiny little bundle of orange feline joy.
After a bit of a holiday, decided to put some thoughts I had on working in defence to text.
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Finally on holiday that’s not at a beach. Which means I can spend a bit more time on Gathers.cards. And finally attempt to solve “how do I handle various foilings for various cards across multiple card games?”.
And… just maybe… also expand the plugin system to have a book collection as well. Gotta make sure I don’t get duplicates of a book.
Smuggled myself into BIGGICon last night. Well, smuggled is a strong word, given I was invited, but had not registered because I didn’t think I could go.
…what’s BIGGICon? Time for a brief history lesson: the PhD scheme I did was called IGGI and I was part of the first cohort, 12 years ago. IGGI (Intelligent Games and Games Intelligence) is now almost done. Over. Last cohort was onboarded 3 years ago (all planned, by design and funding). IGGICon was a yearly event showcasing the students, their work, and the industry partners. BIGGICon is just the last and biggest IGGICon.
While academia as a whole left a sour taste in my mouth, despite an amazing supervisor and a topic I really loved, the people in IGGI are amazing. And the people supporting the students from industry.
So next time you see someone boasting an IGGI doctorate or experience, they’re likely amazing and you should hire them / give them your undivided attention / donate all your wordly possessions to them.
Oh, and I’ve been told The Chinese Room has some amazing announcements soon (TM). Looking really forward to that.
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Given my strong opinions on data sovereignty, quality software and avoiding orphan-crushing megacorps, you will not be surprised to know I heavily dislike Meta, Microsoft, Tencent, Amazon, etc.
What you will be surprised is that there’s also open source projects I heavily dislike. And that’s usually because of the people behind them. Evil people are evil even if what they release is open source. Giving money to evil people with evil agendas will, drum roll, lead to evil.
So while I could personally type all the reasons I dislike Omarchy and the ghoul behind it, this link can do it for me a lot better with even more info. Do I agree with every single point in there? No. But I agree with a high majority of them. stopomarchy.neocities.org
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Helsing’s own Jon Gjengset (also known as the author of Rust for Rustaceans) will be speaking at bcnrust in October! eurorust.eu/activities/…
If you know me, or read some of my older posts on other platforms, you may remember I am a big advocate for “stop using technology from companies that are making the world worse”.
That includes reducing reliance on Google, Amazon, BP, Shell, Meta, TikTok, and many more.
And definitely to stop using their software and hardware, whenever possible.
So if you were unsure if it’s worth the effort, take a look at this article ( desmog.com/2026/… ) and tell me if you want to keep giving money or data to these organisations.
Because the money you give to Google will reach Reform (if you’re UK), christofascists, and it will slow down clean energy initiatives.
And if you want to support those, please just block me.
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Inspired by the Ignobel prize, I have started proceedings for defining a SOC2 and ISO 45001 compliant kiss.
Never must people wonder again if they are kissing according to best practices and set standards!
I just found this UUID: f583647d-2758-4e35-a11a-15842e4c51b0 . If it’s yours, please reach out so I can give it to you.
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Also a little bit about where I work.
youtube.com/watch?v=gJcO-7J6ztM
“The CA-1 Europa is taking shape. In Bavaria, inside a manufacturing facility with its own airfield, our team at Helsing and Grob Aircraft is building the first autonomous combat aircraft designed and produced in Germany, for Europe.
We announced CA-1 in September 2025 and our partnership with HENSOLDT in February 2026. The program is on schedule. Maiden flight comes next year.
Today we’re showing you the initial construction phase: the wings.”
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Just had a LinkedIn connection add me and say “my co-founder, \<redacted>, just walked over to my desk telling me we should connect with you”.
I am both amused and impressed at the novel approach.
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People never want to tell you the secrets to long-lasting relationships, or to long-lasting software.
But getting married has unlocked both of them for me.
In this essay I explain what marriage taught me about SaaS software development.
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As a Rustacean, looking forward to the full Rust rewrite of Vutuv in the far far future.
Everything will one day be Rust.
Your first born child will be Rusty.
Birds truly are an inspiration. We’ve set up a tiny bird feeder near one of our windows. It’s designed for small birds, like finches.
But pigeons contort themselves and balance on one foot and manage to access the food too.
Truly inspirational.
Let me tell you what that taught me about B2B sales.
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The age of stupid, hyper-personalised homepages must return.
Many have returned already. I’m trying to join them.
Many leaders, CEOs, CFOs, CPOs, etc, are always curious about the best way to raise team morale and foster increased productivity.
Today, I discovered the best answer to this conundrum: BBQ boats.
Yes, take your team on a BBQ boat in the middle of Canary Wharf (London), sail around and cook delicious BBQ.
After thorough investigation (2 hours with a wonderful team of 6), I can attest to the brilliant value proposition to the business.
Be part of the future.
Go on a BBQ boat.
Not sponsored by the Canary Wharf BBQ Boats. _yet_
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Time to bring my high-brow, super intellectual posts from LinkedIn here. You have been warned.
So, how many engineers does it take to change a light bulb at Microsoft? None, the light socket itself is down for maintenance.
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Random bit that I would like for #vutuv : datetime locales. Right now, posts show up as MM/DD/YY, which is very USAian. Making that configurable (or defaulting to sensible) would be nice.
Hello vutuv! Love the idea of a federation-friendly LinkedIn. Let’s see if I can get others on board.