Jekyll2026-03-15T11:08:52+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/feed.xmlJano GonzálezProgrammer, musician and conference speaker.Jano GonzálezWeek 11 of 20262026-03-15T00:00:00+00:002026-03-15T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/03/15/week-11-of-2026Pausing the Practical Machine Learning: Foundations to Neural Networks Specialization to find material with more depth than the first course on Probability. In the end, when learning for fun rather than practical purpose you can take as many detours as you want.

Finally started level 7 in WaniKani. Also started with the absolute beginner videos in Comprehensible Japanese.

This month is my birthday so I got some of my favorite records on vinyl:

Tried to clear my album backlog. It’s great to have enough free time to listen to a lot of music. This week was mostly Shoegaze, Metal and K-Pop.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 10 of 20262026-03-08T00:00:00+00:002026-03-08T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/03/08/week-10-of-2026Finally received the vinyl version of Candelabro - Deseo, carne y voluntad, my second favorite album of 2025. Sadly, there was some damage during transportation to the corners of the cover.

This week I’ve been a little sick, slowing down my progress in the first course of the Practical Machine Learning: Foundations to Neural Networks Specialization.

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  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Last Thursday, after 100 hours of play, I started feeling a little burned out from the game. Because of that, I left a save file just before facing the final boss and I’m pausing for a few days. I got enough fun from the game so I’ll attempt to kill the final boss and stop playing regardless of the result
  • Vampire Crawlers Demo. It’s a lot of fun. I don’t want to get too invested in case the game changes too much on release

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 9 of 20262026-03-01T00:00:00+00:002026-03-01T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/03/01/week-9-of-2026Started the Practical Machine Learning: Foundations to Neural Networks Specialization.

Attended the Magdalena Bay concert last Sunday.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 8 of 20262026-02-22T00:00:00+00:002026-02-22T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/02/22/week-8-of-2026Another quiet week, the only notable thing was attending the Geordie Greep concert last Friday night.

During the last 2 weeks I didn’t have any projects. It turns out that without a plan for the day it’s really easy to waste time in random stuff. I need some structure to function properly.

I’m finally in level 6 of WaniKani. This week I had difficulties memorizing the new Kanji, too much information in my memory?

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 7 of 20262026-02-15T00:00:00+00:002026-02-15T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/02/15/week-7-of-2026Pretty quiet week, the only notable thing was attending the Machine Girl concert last Sunday night.

I still feel kinda tired from vacation and didn’t do exercise any day of the week. That’s the problem with doing something “because it’s good for you” instead of doing it because you like it 🤷‍♂️.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 6 of 20262026-02-08T00:00:00+00:002026-02-08T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/02/08/week-6-of-2026We went to a family vacation in Amsterdam. When we travel we take things slowly so we didn’t do too much.

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Thanks to a former colleague, now you can actually find the Atom feed of the posts. He made me realize the feed wasn’t linked anywhere and suggested adding a rel link to it. I also added a link in the footer.

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  • Slay the Spire+. I didn’t bring the Switch to my trip so I played one of my travel games

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 5 of 20262026-02-01T00:00:00+00:002026-02-01T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/02/01/week-5-of-2026I have lived for 12 years in Berlin already. Will this be my last year here? Only time can tell

No new courses for me this week.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 4 of 20262026-01-25T00:00:00+00:002026-01-25T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/01/25/week-4-of-2026Everyone but me has been sick at home this week. I’ve been taking care of my family.

I tried (and failed) to get tickets to the BTS concert in Munich. I was assigned around number 160.000 in the queue for a venue with 75.000 people capacity.

Finished the Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization. The last course was slightly annoying, for example an exercise is still wrong after 2 years of reports in the course forum.

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  • Reached level 6 in WaniKani but I still have words from level 5 to learn

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 3 of 20262026-01-18T00:00:00+00:002026-01-18T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/01/18/week-3-of-2026I was slightly sick at the beginning of the week and skipped exercise a couple of days. For me, the hardest part of maintaining a daily habit is returning to it after “breaking the chain”.

This is my third week posting notes and I’m starting to see a pattern. Should I just rename them to “what I listened to this week”?

I’m seeing more Chilean bands with a talk-singing style popping up. Maybe that’s the solution for me to finally release music with lyrics? By the way, today I learned that the German word Sprechgesang is used to refer to this style of singing in English.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 2 of 20262026-01-11T00:00:00+00:002026-01-11T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/01/11/week-2-of-2026A cold snowy week in Berlin. The holidays are over so I’m back to my regular routine.

Started the third and final course in the Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization and spent more time than expected wrapping my head around the covariance matrix.

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  • Reached level 5 in WaniKani
  • Trying Ghostty. It feels snappier that the default macOS terminal. Is worth it to install an extra program? I don’t it know yet

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