Wim Leers

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Apr 21 2017 Blog post

Bye Facebook

I deleted my Facebook account because in the past three years, I barely used it. It’s ironic, considering I worked there.

Jul 07 2012 Talk

Graduation ceremony

For the 2012 Hasselt University Science Faculty graduation ceremony (“proclamatie” in Dutch), I was asked to present my experiences as an intern at Facebook.

Jan 01 2012 Blog post

Twelfth week: wrapping up

My last week at Facebook … it seemed so long until I could finally return to my beloved Anneleen. Simultaneously, time seems to have flown by.

Jan 01 2012 Blog post

Eleventh week: last struggles & Holiday Party

On Monday, I worked on getting my code committed and tied up many loose ends. I got very positive feedback from my manager! :)

Dec 08 2011 Blog post

Tenth week: Facebook swag, double victory, C++11

On Monday, I finally got Qt committed (if you’ve been reading my blog, then you’ll know that I started this two weeks ago). It cost me about five full work days.

Dec 07 2011 Blog post

Ninth week: `--static`, Thanksgiving and tofurkey

My ninth week here can be summarized very briefly: the work week was very short. Thanks to Thanksgiving on Thursday, we got off on Thursday and Friday.

Dec 06 2011 Blog post

Eighth week: static Qt, pizookie & American football

This week, I finally got around to reporting an issue that has been bothering me for a long time on Facebook.

Nov 27 2011 Blog post

Seventh week: Google, Cirque du Soleil and JOHNNIAC

Monday was the first day after Anneleen left. Obviously a sad day. Plus, due to the lack of sleep the night before she left, I was still feeling very tired.

Nov 26 2011 Blog post

Sixth week: Engineering summit & Anneleen's visit

Facebook, or well, my manager, graciously allowed me to take two days off — I believe in large part because I had been working so hard in the first 5 weeks of my internship.

Nov 25 2011 Blog post

Fifth week: "work hard, play hard", Stanford & Palo Alto

This week, I worked very hard to get as much work done as possible — as I did the preceding weeks, but with renewed energy and focus — before Anneleen would arrive Saturday that week.

Nov 17 2011 Blog post

Fourth week: impostor, "Belgium?" & MV FAST

On Monday, I biked to Facebook and back. Since I left early, it was cold. Very cold. Belgium cold. What’s worse though, is the state of biking.

Oct 26 2011 Blog post

Third week: biking to SF on the Super Safe Clown Show

This workweek was rather uneventful. I just worked very hard on pushing my project forward.

Oct 23 2011 Blog post

Second week: indoor skydiving, Alcatraz & scavenger hunt

On the Tuesday of the second week, I started feeling very much at home here in the sunny Silicon Valley.

Oct 18 2011 Blog post

First week at Facebook

While I obviously can’t publish the details here, the orientation was very cool.

Oct 17 2011 Blog post

Facebook internship: getting there

I didn’t expect the goodbye to be easy, but I never expected it to be so hard, either. I think it was one of the hardest things I ever did, on that 23rd of September, 2011.

Apr 22 2011 Blog post

Internship with the Site Speed team at Facebook!

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining Facebook’s Site Speed team in Palo Alto, California on September 26, 2011 for a 12-week in

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