It was supposed to be a comedy, a moment when I could turn my brain off for a bit and enjoy some easy TV. However, it turned out to be so much more. What surprised me the most was the amount of tears I shed while watching this show.

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! 💙

Not only we saw the Pope Francis during our visit in Budapest, but there was also a tram! The photo was taken during our only walk around the city.

Budapest is a beautiful city, I hope to visit it again soon!

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.

I didn’t want to spend eternity on figuring out a clever name, so we start with “URLs”. Below you will find links I collected recently. As bonus to these links, you can find my commentary/description / recommendation. Enjoy “The URLs”!

How to upload/download files to Fly.io using scp command

I created a linklog. But the story isn’t that simple…

Found someone who articulated my thoughts on sharing and social media better than I could.

You probably shouldn’t be worried about an audience at all. Write. Paint. Draw. Create. Put it out into the world and let it go. Maybe it will change the world. Maybe it might change the mind of a single person. Perhaps after all your effort it won’t be noticed at all.

All of that isn’t as important as creating.

Since the beginning of the year, I feel like I’m discovering the Internet once again and I’m enjoying the journey. RSS, Mastodon, open APIs, discovering new people and their work… all of this is very rewarding.

The internet should be about exploring and novelty. When I was younger, I remember the thrill at finding a new author at the library or a book store. For a short time, the internet was like that as well. I am on Mastodon not because I want to “build my brand” or “expand my audience” but because there are so many people in the world that are smart, funny, and creative, and I want to see what they have done

Heh, the more I write here, the more I want to learn CSS 🙈.

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! 💙