I reflect on my social media journey from Facebook, via Instagram, Twitter to LinkedIn, and my eventual retreat from these platforms. I share my vision for a more personal and less intrusive social media experience, and how I find value in platforms like Mastodon and my personal blog.

Based on the number of posts, April was a quiet month. But honestly, I don’t believe myself that this is true, so let’s try to tear the April apart and see what happened!

• I’m back in the saddle, both gravel and MTB bike were ridden a few times this month! A little bit over 100km in total, but it’s a start!
• I watched some cycling in TV, kept my fingers crossed for Pogacar, he managed to win Ronde van Vlaanderen, Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne. It was a pity he had to pull out of Liège-Bastogne-Liège due to a crash and broken wrist. It’s really cool to watch the final kilometers of the race in TV with children, they are really excited about it:)
• Changed the tires in the car, and a few days later one of the tires got puctured, we didn’t react on time and it got damaged, had to buy another one 🙃
• Juve has one of the worst seasons in the last 10 years, sometimes it’s really hard to watch them play. Still… Fino alla fine!
• We spent one day with alpacas on the farm nearby, it was a great experience for the whole family!
• During one of the weekends, when I was with the boys alone, we had an idea of using ChatGPT and Midjourney to create a story. It was a lot of fun, and I can recommend it to everyone who has kids and wants to spend some time with them in a creative way!
• By the way, at work we’ve done a workshop for our People team and presented them how to leverage the power of generative AI in their daily work. 3 main insights from the workshop:
  • I enjoy such events with people!
  • We’re in exremely interesting times and it feels great to be a part of it!
  • Legal and compliance stuff around this topic will be (and already is) a mess.
• I’ve bought a drone, even though I resisted for years. It’s cool to fly it, it gives me a lot of fun! I have to add few things to my todolist right now:
  • learn how to fly it properly
  • make sure I know how to store the raw footage in a clever way
  • become a video editing master
  • learn what’s LUT and color grading
  • learn how to use DaVinci Resolve (or maybe something else?)
  • empty my photos backlog from last year to make some space for the new stuff
• There was at least one pretty sunset, totally #nofilterneeded
• We planned to do a family holiday between April/May this year, we even managed to go to Budapest (here’s a “cyk” from that trip), unfortunately some viruses or other stuff broke our plans and got back home. Before I felt asleep, I had a reflection that… here is everyone and everything I need, especially during warmer months, we can enjoy our place even more:)

Posts

• March Was Tough

April, thank you! 💙

After quite successful and productive February, March decided to be a bit more challenging. I had some issues on all fronts, but still managed to discover and experience a few interesting things.

Another month has passed and it’s time to summarize it.

1. We had a little holiday in Kraków with the family. Hard to call it a regeneration but still, it was nice to spend some time together. We had a nice whether, including -10°C during the day. Highlights: Wieliczka, Wawel, Muzeum Iluzji, Pałac Krzysztofory, Wesoła Cafe, AleKlocki.
2. During the Kraków visit, I had a chance to experience the BMW 3 series for the first time in the 370+HP version and explore the city with my guide D. - thanks a lot for the opportunity! It was great! The most important insight for me was that I don’t really need a full M version of the car, the one I tested is more than enough!
3. I spent a lot of time digging through BMW configurator, it seems that cars still make an impression on me.
4. February was not impressive in terms of bike trips, just 3 of them. I hope that my issues with the tires are gone and I won’t have to spend most of the ride pumping them up.
5. February marks my 4th month in a row when I closed all the activity rings on my Apple Watch!
6. At work things were good but INTENSIVE, the highlight was a workshop we had in a bigger group in Poznań! First of all we closed some important topic, but there was also a lot of fun and a lot of learning! I also started in a new role – exciting things ahead of us!
7. I had my first experience as a host with Disruption Talks format, it was fun!
8. FlexiSpot surprised me when I reached out to them and they agreed to send me a new desk top for free (I had a small issue with the previous one).
9. Something triggered me to improve my backup game. I decided to leverage the power of my Synology and backup all the photos from all the phones at home to Synology (even though I use the big iCloud package). Just in case. Apart from that, I did some changes to running Docker containers on NAS and I’m using it more and more for things other than just a file storage.
10. I’m glad that my home is running almost entirely on Apple devices, just a few things left for migration. Not that I don’t like other brands, but it’s easier to have everything in one ecosystem.
11. Health is good!
12. I felt urge to learn CSS from scratch, hopefully I will find some time for it.
13. I wrote 5 posts on my blog! That’s more than in 3 last years combined!

Few random links

• https://store.steampowered.com/app/1794680/Vampire_Survivors/
• https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
• https://logseq.com/
• https://dokku.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/@flavourtrip
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4aPeeI64CA
• https://letterboxd.com/

Posts

• Cyk007: One night in Kraków, Kraków, 2023
• Uses Page Is Up
• Exploring WWW
• Playing with Webmentions
• January was NICE

February, thank you! 💙

I’ve recently realized that my habits for interacting with World Wide Web changed over time. Here’s how I spend my time, consume the content and communicate in the internet.

I’ve just closed the activity rings for 100th consecutive day!

After the events in Twitter back in 2022, I decided to rethink a bit my visibility there and other social media. Somehow, I ended up with a pretty old-school conclusion.

Właśnie sobie uświadomiłem, że jednym z fajniejszych prezentów jakie można sobie sprawić jest… fotoksiążka.

Jak to miało być? Plany vs rzeczywistość

Miałem w planach zrobić sobie takie bardzo dobre jakościowo książki ze zdjęciami podsumowujące każdy kolejny rok, jednak jakoś nigdy nie było we mnie wystarczająco dużo weny, żeby ten projekt zrealizować. Na początek — przeraża mnie selekcja zdjęć — ładnych zdjęć, które są dla mnie istotne jest w każdym roku ZA DUŻO. W ostatnich miesiącach lepiej sobie radzę z ratingiem ★★★★☆ podczas pracy z biblioteką, ale nie jest to coś co praktykowałem od zawsze. Czyli póki co — pod górkę. Żeby było ładnie, chciałbym żeby wszystko było spójne i w jednym stylu, a to zawsze kojarzyło mi się z olbrzymim wysiłkiem włożonym w projekt layoutu, w jakimś Photoshop czy innym cudzie. Again, pod górkę. Ci, którzy mnie znają wiedzą, że też lubię robić trochę lepiej niż “dobrze”, więc naczytałem się postów o obróbce, kalibracji, papierze, gramaturze i szeregu innych parametrów, które mają wpływ na docelowy wydruk. Jak się pewnie domyślacie, efekt jest taki, że nie zrobiłem żadnej fotoksiążki.