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I'm in Copenhagen for the foreseeable future. The weather has been great; yet the city is rather empty — apparently, Roskilde Festival is a staple of the Danish summer. It's incredible how much I have enjoyed working. I am learning immensely — and having so much fun. And with NixOS of all things!

Life has...changed immensely. I'll probably get back at writing here, at some point — but suddenly I'm leaving the quaint little village for Copenhagen (of all places!). And I'm quite excited, because the job is *great*, and I haven't been so excited for something in a long time.

Just spent some good 45 minutes organizing my no-subfolders hoard of digital books into separate folders. It feels good. I feel like I could do some very light data analysis on this, too.

Managed to crash @zed.dev while trying to start my day of work. However, the sun is shining and there's no sign of rain in the next few hours; and life has been good.

What I think I miss the most at this stage in my life is a solid programming community around me. Soloing everything is very difficult. Even knowing what to solo is hard if there's nobody to shoot ideas with. Of course, there's plenty of communities in the internet...but it's not the same.

I am giving @zed.dev a try (after having spent the last two months mainly developing with Cursor...) and I just realized it has voice-comm and default public channels baked into it. It seems like they're trying to bring the public closer to Zed's development. A bit funky, but could be interesting.

Levels is quite a fun character, but it's also a bit terrifying how his relentless pragmatism is able to *generate so much*. And I think some programmers are understandably scared, because things really seem to have sped up tremendously with AI tools.

I'm bad at planning ahead, but my summer already features two (!) programming events I'm quite enthusiastic about. And both of them in Scandinavia, which is nice. The days are getting longer, and it will be my first summer over here. Quite exciting!

At the phase of life and career that I will print Medium articles, highlight them, and hopefully place them upon a programming shrine that I consult every day before getting to work.

Microsoft has been producing the most cursed enterprise software for the last ten years or so. I am so surprised by their strong influence in Denmark — my university uses it, most companies use the .NET stack — but Outlook is so...in the way. Things just fail without justification.

I feel that one of the most yielding (addmitedly first world) QoL enhancements is to use an e-reader. Vast availability of content, the convenience or backlight in the dark — and it makes travel so much easier. I read in paper, and love it, but e-ink is amazing too.

I did some career in music journalism (very fun! would again!) and it's a bit baffling how little attention Spotify got in the field. For many years I thought Bandcamp was the most viable alternative — but then they got acquired in a very weird deal for all involved. Very curious about the book!

I just found out about ctrl+l in Firefox. It was all I was missing from being mouseless — I even had Vimium set up for *ages*. I feel anew!

Today is on track to be *one of those days*. Waking up at 5AM, doing some work — hopping here every once in a while to gently muse into the void — and then some more work. And then I'm free by lunch time.

Tinashe is coming to Denmark! There's apparently a tour, going through northern and central Europe, and I'm a bit shook. Would love to go, but — 50 euros a ticket is quite hefty (although I understand she's probably bringing lots of people). Great artist — love her so, so much.

Yesterday, a bank transfer was set in motion for money to come my way — money I earned, well...freelancing? With programming? It seems like some sort of breakthrough; I'll follow up on this. However — did I come to Denmark to be a digital nomad? That's usually here: 🏖️ 🌄 I'm here: 🏂 🏔️ 🕯️ Hmm.

It's been two weeks since my last proof of life? Insane. Time flies by quite quickly. It has been fun. Still in Denmark. Excited about language learning; been working with two (!) different start-ups. Have some books I want to read. Currently listening to Off The Wall (new master). Life's good.

Thank you, Claude, for making me feel like my work is *a little more interesting* and *a little more challenging* than what I give it credit for. (I realize people can tell I prompted for more thoughtfulness: I feel a bit embarrassed in hindsight but — hey, it works!)

new year's eve fast approaching and here I am with all my resolutions still to be thought of

It is a bit crazy that at this moment I am doing tech so I can leverage the financial buffer thus obtained to free myself of the shackles of having an low-effort, high-reward intellectual white-collar job to go work in public-facing services and actually see and interact with people in Danish.

I find myself currently enrolled in university (again) and one thing I always struggle with is the media people choose to communicate. I've been doing projects over *Facebook Messenger* and that is a bit insane. So I always mention how e-mail is actually really nice. And today I got this:

I think today I will start applying for a job. My dream job at this very moment is: working in a café, a library or a bookstore. Things I'll be applying to: we seek software-developer, interested in front back side end + data / AI / popcorn making.

Sending emails is so nice. I mean the long rambling emails to friends and loved ones; not work emails. Those are not so nice (and even then! I ramble).

Claude makes human mistakes too.