Now

Last updated: 23. February 2026

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

Work

After a wild chain of events I left my old workplace after only 6 months to transition into an AI/ML role at a "Big Law" firm.

I work solely in Python and try to get accustomed to all these new concepts hitting me. A very different world from web certainly, but also an exciting one. I'm doing a lot of Dev workflow cleanups and bringing some structure into the project. Maintainability and simplicity are key for me here. There's a lot of room to improve and make the whole thing robust, set up some nice CI/CD flows and express myself through code. Yeah, I'm just weird.

Hobby projects

Most recently: set up a small RaspBerry Pi 4 laying on my desk running OpenClaw. The little guy is fully isolated in a private network, has no permissions to access any of my stuff outside of the filesystem on the Pi itself and the public internet - and if it makes a wrong move, I'm beating it to shreds with a baseball bat. I'm using it to run a couple of automatic reminders, summaries and some personal stuff. Mostly I just bombard it with weird requests and use it as a smarter TODO list.

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

Meh... don't ask. I'm trying to get back into it. Will update if everything goes according to plan.