World

A lot has been happening in the world when you look at 2023

• Ukraine - Russia war, Hamas - Israel war
• Finland joins NATO
• India exceeds China in population size
• India lands on the moon’s south pole (Chandrayaan-3)
• Banking crisis (buyout of Credit Suisse by UBS in Switzerland)
• First AI Safety Summit

Just go and look at 2023 in Wikipedia, it is a really fascinating summary.

Predictions

Near the begining of 2024, a lot of people and organizations on the web published its predictions related to most promising/important technologies or trends.

Common themes are:

• rapid growth of AI (businesses, regulations, tools)
• focus on security, need for experts, “zero-trust” buzz
• focus on cloud solutions
• quantum computing, “PQC” buzz (post-quantum-cryptography)

And I’m still identifying myself as a humble Java programmer. Well. Java is a new Cobol.

Poland

In Poland, something nice has just happened: Tuwim, Gałczyński and Makuszyński are in public domain since 1st January 2024!

I see that Wolne Lektury has already prepared Poems for children!

Proffessional life

After 7 (seven!) years of working at Credit-Suisse I quit and on 2nd January 2023 started working at DevBridge.

So, it has been one year in which I:

• played and enjoyed Dart language
• had fun writing Android applications in Flutter
• found smart, nice, knowegeable and helpful people - and suprisingly discovered that I actually really like listening and talking to and them
• learned how to configure MacOS for software development (twice)
• reminded myself about Scala language and discovered Scala 3
• discovered that Lightbend closed the Akka library - and that Pekko has been born
• started playing with Docker and k8s

Exactly after one year, on 2nd January 2024, I formally start working at Cognizant (the company behind DevBridge acquisition).

Private life

2023:

What was good in 2023?

• made a huge progress on good habits
  • wake up at 5 a.m.
  • 30 min walk every day
  • strenght training 3 times a week
  • 24 hours fasting, 2-4 times a month
• discovered that I might have ADHD (focus issues)
• discovered that I found great compensatory mechanisms (bujo + pomodoro)
• discovered a few inspiring youtube channels - I promise to create a blog post about it

2024:

These are my goals for 2024:

• improve strength
  • mental: by doing hard and painful stuff…
  • physical: by doing hard and painful stuff :)
• train my focus muscles (meditation and mindfulness)
• continue writing blog posts (can be tiny, make it a habit)
• create “familly projects” to engage kids (I already have over 10 ideas that are waiting to be used)
• set up blog newsletter (still thinking…)

This blog post is publihed as part of my “blog goal” - creating small posts that capture my current interests, problems, issues and solutions.

I wish you all the best in 2024!

Have a great year: achieve, develop, master, reach(out) and be fruitful.