The old blog, a racing car, and a Lego case
An October checkpoint on the restored writing and browser playground, with an older Lego project still in the archive.
2012 to now
Writing.
Things I have made, games I keep playing, and work I am still thinking about. The old blog is here too, with its original dates and wording.
Recent writing
On the blog.
A recovered blog, a car in the browser, and a few reasons to get away from a screen.
Reading my old advice about work
Re-reading a 2015 post about automation, estimates and recovery, without pretending it describes today's routine.
What changed after we sold Foody
The public announcement, the work of integration, and what a team needs to understand after an acquisition.
Padel or tennis: choosing a first game
Choosing a first session by the game, the people available to play, and whether there is a practical way to return.
Building a racing game in the browser
A browser racing playground, with a mapped circuit, a local personal-best ghost, and a few deliberate limits.
Padel in Cyprus: what a court count can tell us
What a dated court count can tell us about padel in Cyprus, and the questions it leaves unanswered.
Programming with Lego, without a computer
A proposed six-brick activity for making instructions precise, spotting a mistake, and trying a simple loop.
Recovering my old blog from the Wayback Machine
Recovering 26 old blog posts and their available images, while keeping the addresses and dates that belonged to them.
I started tennis at 32
Starting tennis at 32, taking lessons, and finding people who made it easier to keep playing.
Looking back · 2026
The missing chapters.
I wrote these in 2026 about earlier events. They follow the order of those events; revised pieces also keep the date of their first version.
School years to now
American Academy Larnaca belongs to its alumni
What alumni ownership means in practice at American Academy Larnaca.
2005 to 2009
What Imperial taught me about education
I struggled at Imperial College London and had to learn how to learn properly.
2015
Launching Foody
Foody started with five people, phone orders, cash, and a transaction Cypriot customers already understood.
2019
What changed after we sold Foody
The public announcement, the work of integration, and what a team needs to understand after an acquisition.
2016 to now
I started tennis at 32
Starting tennis at 32, taking lessons, and finding people who made it easier to keep playing.
The 2020s to now
Padel in Cyprus: what a court count can tell us
What a dated court count can tell us about padel in Cyprus, and the questions it leaves unanswered.
After 2019
The earnout years
Time horizons, incentives, succession, and identity during an earnout after Foody was sold.
2019 to 2026
Learning scale at Delivery Hero
What I had to change when Foody's local engineering work became part of Delivery Hero.
2022 to 2025
Opening Moving Doors
Why I moved from advising Staycaee to building it as technical co-founder before it became Moving Doors.
2024 to 2025
Lead, follow, or get the fuck out
I followed first, tried to lead next, and left when the values gap did not close.
2026 to now
Terra now
What I am working on now at Terra: health data infrastructure, engineering, and interfaces for AI agents.
Recovered · 2012 to 2015
The original archive.
Preserved from the former xatzis.com. These articles retain their original dates and wording.
2015
April 5, 2015
My plan to teach my 3 year old daughter programming looks promising.
February 3, 2015
How I learned how to work
2014
July 8, 2014
WTF Brazil
June 12, 2014
Brazil 2014: Probably the best World cup I will ever watch
June 2, 2014
PublicHD: My favourite public tracker is gone!
March 29, 2014
Submitting forms using iFrames on iOS devices
March 16, 2014
XBMC on android TV Boxes
February 7, 2014
Lease, rent or own
2013
December 8, 2013
Startup weekend Cyprus!
April 8, 2013
FIND_IN_SET. A handy little MySQL function
April 6, 2013
My first wordpress plugin
April 6, 2013
No one fights about the private sector
March 28, 2013
Good use for an iPad
March 27, 2013
Crisis needs a leader: Parody
March 22, 2013
The new Legislation proposal for Cyprus
March 10, 2013
Volkswagens POLO R WRC
February 24, 2013
Double edged knife
February 24, 2013
raspberry pi lego case
February 7, 2013
Convert all tables and fields in an sql database to utf8
January 24, 2013
Προεδρικές Εκλογές Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας 2013: Cyprus presidential elections 2013
2012
March 28, 2012
PHP: Object Oriented language or an HTMLTemplate engine?
March 17, 2012
What’s wrong with dreaming?
February 28, 2012
ActiveCyprus.com
February 24, 2012
Excellent Bosses
February 20, 2012
WTF?
January 4, 2012