Now

Last updated: 20 December 2025

This page describes what's keeping me busy these days in all areas of life. What now?

Work

I transitioned into my next Fullstack dev role in July 2025. So far it's been going really well. Everyone's very happy with me - I was able to provide value from day one and start working on features and bugs immediately. I got a lot of compliments because of that, which of course made me happy to hear.

The complexity of the project is very different from my previous job. While before I was working on a lot of new projects, starting new codebases and making decisions, all of that has already been done this time and I've joined a project that's been almost a decade in the making.

As with any big codebase, there's some tech debt here and there that needs to be addressed, but the team is usually quick to catch up and fix past mistakes.

Other than that, implementing new features, fixing bugs, and changing the news platforms to the liking of our stakeholders is my daily business. There's a variety of things to work on, and I can say it's truly a FULLSTACK role. Frontend in Vue/JS, SCSS; backend in TS; some services in PHP - there's a lot to work on and I can really put the expertise I gained over the last couple of years into every aspect of our products.

Having said that: I do miss writing new applications and code which is why I go on more side quests at home these days.

Hobby projects

I went on a couple of side quests over the last few months. Moving all my projects over to my VPS was one of them. I still had some sites left on a cheap static hosting plan, which I recently canceled after the transition was done.

All of my side projects/websites now have analytics enabled, powered by my self-hosted Umami instance. I also took the time to build a proper GitHub Actions deployment flow for pushing/merging on main so I don't have to manually deploy every time.

I built a project boilerplate for myself in Astro JS so I can build smaller landing pages and side projects faster. You might ask yourself why I chose Astro instead of SvelteKit, even though I'm more familiar with SvelteKit, especially for highly dynamic Fullstack apps. The reason is simple: I really appreciate how Astro is meant for static pages, and you make the parts that need reactivity reactive and nothing else. You ship minimal code to the client and everything is in a tight bundle - performant and SEO-friendly by default. I might consider using SvelteKit again for a project if it's really complex and there are almost no static pages. Who knows? For now, I like this approach.

I built a little tool to color my wallpapers to match my terminal and Neovim theme because "hey, why not?" You can try it out at ImgThemer.com and color your wallpaper in over 500 different ways.

I had a short stint with the Godot game engine, but not enough to show anything of importance. For now that's on hold, but it was fun - I'll return to it at some point.

I built a prototype (heavily with AI, though) for a desktop app to chat with different LLMs via OpenRouter because I wanted to have a proper desktop app for that. I didn't like the OpenRouter frontend, and even though I mostly live in the terminal, sometimes it's nice to have a dedicated desktop app. Using Tauri was a great experience, and I plan on properly rebuilding it by hand. I only wanted to validate the concept and check how far I could take this and also push AI.

Last but not least, I'm currently learning Japanese. It's been on my list for so long, and I already learned some in the past but never picked it up again until now. My approach to it is a lot more structured now, and I already understand basic sentences and can read one of their three scripts, Hiragana. Next up is Katakana, and I've already started to study some Kanji, although there are thousands and it's more of a "learn the 2,000 most common" thing. Yeah... it's going to be a long journey.

Fitness

I started lifting again and tracking my calories (well, not over the holidays), but my age shows. Shoulders hurt - I need to do some mobility work. Other than that, I feel good, but I also have a long way to go to feel REALLY fit again.