Journal

Weekly notes on what I’m learning, reading, listening to, and thinking about. A living archive of my weeks.

• Week 08, 2026

  22. February 2026

  • CI/CD is more than a pipeline, it is a mindset

• Week 07, 2026

  15. February 2026

  • Why the developer who writes the code should write the test

• Week 06, 2026

  08. February 2026

  • Marie Kondo meets Software Engineering: decluttering as an underrated skill
  • Quiet reading week, but Magic Cleaning hit at the right time

• Week 05, 2026

  01. February 2026

  • Feel-Good Productivity: energy vampires and the limits of audiobook retention
  • Lazar continues to impress, but reading time was scarce
  • January retrospective: plans changed, but progress happened anyway

• Week 04, 2026

  25. January 2026

  • ESP-IDF supports C++: OOP features that solve real problems in embedded
  • Nello Biedermann's Lazar: modern voice meets 20th century setting
  • Inner Source and Monorepos: lessons learned from automotive development

• Week 02, 2026

  11. January 2026

  • A tech-free vacation week to fully disconnect
  • Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: do fewer things, work naturally, obsess over quality
  • Agile and Lean practitioners will find validation for what they already know

• Week 01, 2026

  04. January 2026

  • ESP32 supports dynamic memory allocation with ESP-IDF
  • Agile philosophy: Done > Perfect, focusing on delivery over frameworks
  • Could microservices architecture work in embedded systems?
  • The rewrite debate: not every problem needs a new solution