July 20, 2025
Technology
- Got a little project brewing. Fingers crossed I could push it to the finish line by August.
- I’ve been consolidating all my servers into Google Cloud (again) in the past month to simplify management and consolidate billing. There’s one server that I haven’t been able to migrate due to the amount of bandwidth it uses. Would like to hear some suggestions!
- If you looked at my dotfiles, you may have noticed that I’ve been playing around with LLMs lately. I think we’re reaching the point where LLM tools are actually useful, given proper supervision (for example, as a coding assistant). I still do not support GenAI for creative work, however.
Personal
- Decided to join a fitness club near my workplace; now I can run during a lunch break! Downside: location being location, membership fee is quite expensive. The facility is pretty nice though.
- I made some progress on home building here in Tokyo. I finally got the floor plan that I really like. Together with choosing a house developer, and searching for land, this marks the 5th month I’ve been doing this.
- After 15 years of using OmniFocus (and OmniOutliner-based GTD before that), I decided it’s time to move on. Even though I’ve been using Linux for the past 10 years, OmniFocus has remained the GTD of choice due to iOS and iPadOS support. I had high hopes for OmniFocus for Web, but it has fallen further and further behind. Now I’m back to org-mode (and Beorg). Let’s see how long this sticks.