Revived my blog with seven November posts, exploring tech and personal topics. Updated the blog’s layout, discovered inspiring bloggers, and dove into home automation. Embracing the fresh freedom of unemployment, I’m energized for future hobbies and projects.

Navigating a COVID recovery, contemplating a career move after 12 fulfilling years, enjoying Bond movies, tackling house DIYs, and looking forward to Advent of Code 2023!

Been obsessed with Baldur’s Gate 3 lately, such a great game! I’ve been woodworking too and made a cutting board for my wife. Failed at a pencil holder but learned from it. Got a new keyboard. Also saved some cool links.

From an unforgettable vacation at Bory Tucholskie to embracing fitness with workout.lol. The dramatic Tour de France 2023 is finished and am excited about my new bike’s promise. As days grow shorter, my reorganized movie collection awaits!

Tour de France excitement, bike setbacks, terrace transformation and an angry angle grinder.

I had a super productive week, blogging a lot thanks to my new ‘bullets’ format. I’ve revisited Mimestream, an email client, and been biking a lot with my son. Bought a new bike alarm, water cages, and bottles. Also, I enjoyed a Netflix show about the Tour de France. A video about trauma left a big impact on me. Finally, a chat with a friend made me value relatability online.

I’ve got a fresh new avatar thanks to Andy. Plus, I’m taking on a DIY terrace renovation and automating my garden watering. Apparently, I’m also looking for additional hours in a day.

In this blog post, I introduce my new series called ‘Bullets’ where I share my thoughts and experiences in a concise bullet point format. There’s a photo of a blue car and a few links to other people’s blogs.

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:)

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• 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.