What I’m Doing Now

Time flies. It’s been three months since we returned from our winter workation in Bulgaria. 40 days on the slopes and meeting great peers from the digital nomad community. Really enjoyed it!

The biggest personal news: I proposed to Monika at the top of a mountain. Since then, we’ve started planning our wedding, scheduled for 2026. We’ve already found the perfect location in Northern Bohemia.

After the longest running pause so far (didn’t bring my shoes to Bulgaria and heavily regret it), I’m back at it. Since ¼ of the year has already passed, I set a goal of 750 km for the rest of 2025. And I’m also getting back into badminton.

Maki is becoming a regular visitor. He stayed again for two weeks in April. This is us trying to shoot a selfie with the gas holder construction in the background we’ve been walking by together every morning.

One of my goals for this year is to finally make progress on organizing my photo library. We’ve been using Apple Photos where I’d go through both my and Monika’s photos, sort them, make minor edits like retouching, cropping and color correction, and create albums for events. This whole process was tedious, as it required me to download photos from both our iPhones and, when done, duplicate them into Monika’s library. No wonder I’m over two years behind. I’ve now decided to give the iCloud Shared Photo Library a go and redefined the process around it, especially when it comes to albums, as those don’t get shared among members of the shared library. Happy that I’ve done the first steps, but there’s still a lot to do.

Work-wise, I’ve been spread thin between two freelance projects. That wasn’t sustainable, so I’ve decided to part ways with one client. Starting in July, I’ll finally get to focus on my own projects again. I plan to officially release my revamp of Peter Steinberger’s InterposeKit and also dig out the iOS app I started working on a couple of years ago.

Just arrived in Berlin for the 2nd edition of the Local-First Conf. And with that, conference season is kicking off. Next week, I’ll be in Prague for mDevCamp and a freelancer meetup. And the week after, I’ll be tuning in to WWDC. The relationship between Apple and its developer community hasn’t been great recently, but I still have hopes that it’ll be fixed. Curious to see what they announce, especially the rumored UI overhaul sounds like a big deal.