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+<h1>Self Update: End of Year 2023</h1>
+<p class="subtitle">Published on 2023-12-27 16:44:00+01:00
+<p>This has been an... interesting year. I was too lazy and wasted too much time on unnecessary stuff, but I don't want
+to linger and kick myself as I lay down. Last three months I have been slowly going through what I did, what I want to
+do, how I want to do these things, what do I find fun, what is useful, what is not. This process is still ongoing. Heck,
+I don't think it should ever end. Still, for now, it's enough. It's time to act upon it. I already started, otherwise I
+wouldn't want to share it, because that would be only idle pointless talking.
+<p>I did good. When I could I did what I wanted. I'll do better.</p>
+<img src="self_update_end_of_year_2023-1.png" alt="xp book">
+<p>Recently, I started reading second edition of Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck. What a book! I'm happy that
+I started buying and reading not-translated-to-Polish books. I enjoyed TDD and talks by Kent, but XP really delivered.
+I'm really disappointed how they just glanced around it back at the university.
+<p>XP and this "contemplation" period made me want to read Enchiridion again. Coincidentally
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDIyoTGRCZk">Pewdiepie recently mentioned it</a>, so it seems like it will be
+the next thing I read. If you never read these (XP, TDD, Enchiridion), I highly recommend each one. Even if you already
+know the terms.
+<p>Other books and comics, fiction, I read these year are mostly works of William Gibson, Mamare Touno, Douman Seiman,
+Q-Hayashida, Alastair Reynolds, Ursula K. LeGuin, Frank Herbert (again, I guess), and John Brunner. I wait for new
+translations of Alastair Reynolds. I have been keeping an eye on secondhand/antique (book) shops, too, since e.g.,
+Robert Silverberg's works have been translated and published in 90s and 00s and it doesn't seem like anyone intends to
+publish them again for now.
+<p>I decided to take a longer break from EVE Online. The longer I don't play, the more I see how I was depending on it
+terribly. Shame.
+<p><strong>What now?</strong> Well, I'm not telling details. I did last time and I didn't deliver. I want to deliver the
+waterspout radar and write something about the journey it was. This version will use Icon-EU model directly and work
+more similar to the dashboard at NOAA's SWPC site than anything else. Overall, I want to "focus on the blog". Not just
+the maintenance and finally getting you guys an ability to provide comments, feedback and patches (if you have anything
+now, send me an email), but anything that let's me write something <em>interesting</em> here. I want to take small steps
+that let me write things. I have many lingering unfinished projects, experiments and issues that I want to work on.
+<p>And I will.
+<p>By the way, I finally added atom feed. It's generated in a... curious way. Let's see how it does.
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