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Here's what keeps me busy at the moment. What?
Spring Time
Spring is here and I’ve got the week off to enjoy the sun, hang outside with the dog, and do some work around the house to get a head start for summer. My wife and I started making room for a small outdoor kitchen in our backyard last summer. We ordered some furniture from IKEA (their BÅTSKÄR series makes a pretty good impression for what you’re paying) and just concluded our outdoor kitchen project after assembling the final pieces. With great weather, a week of vacation, and a freshly assembled outdoor kitchen, this week’s seen a proper share of bbq’ing.
Work
I’m one quarter into my new job at Pliant and I’m happy to say that I love this place. I get to work with smart people, a compassionate leadership whose values closely align with my own, and the product we’re building is a huge success. It’s my first time working in FinTech and the steep learning curve and exceptionally passionate folks around me are super fun to experience first-hand.
Oh, and we’re hiring. Remote-friendly, EU-based with a slowly growing US presence. Hit me up if you wanna chat!
Side Projects
Got a few things cooking right now.
Funnily enough, tinkering with my dotfiles (yet again) is taking up a decent amount of head space — but at this point it’s become a guilty pleasure. neovim 0.12 just dropped with a substantial amount of improvements and tweaks that allowed me to massively trim down and simplify my somewhat aging config. It took me a few attempts and I seem to have stumbled over the same issues half of the internet seems to have stumbled over, but I’m finally back at full swing with a pretty nimble yet rich configuration that allows me to drive all my daily coding from neovim and the command line only. Super grateful for all the work the Open Source maintainers put into neovim and the surrounding ecosystem.
On top of that I picked up a small pro-bono project for a local organization in my home town. They need a new website, I enjoy building stuff on the web, they asked kindly and I love what they’re doing. It’s a small way I can give back and contribute to our local community and I’m happily hacking away right now.
Doppelkopf Club keeps growing. April is going to be the month where we hit 250.000 games played on the site. It’s still unreal to see how many people play and learn Doppelkopf every day, how many people reach out with great ideas, good questions, or just kind and encouraging feedback. It’s by far my favourite pet project ever and I’m so energized by the random connections to other people it gives me, as well as knowing that there are people out there who go out, touch grass, play this wonderful card game in real life because this project helped them learn the game.
By the way: I’m slowly but steadily chipping away at a multiplayer mode. It takes substantial time and effort, but I’m working on it actively.