Jekyll2026-04-05T09:52:14+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/feed.xmlJano GonzálezProgrammer, musician and conference speaker.Jano GonzálezWeek 14 of 20262026-04-05T00:00:00+00:002026-04-05T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/04/05/week-14-of-2026Sick this week, didn’t to too much.

The decisive Battle of Maipú was fought on April 5, 1818.

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  • Picross DS. About to finish level 10 in Free Mode

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 13 of 20262026-03-29T00:00:00+00:002026-03-29T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/03/29/week-13-of-2026Traveled to Frankfurt for a couple of days to attend the NMIXX concert. The concert was great but I didn’t have time to discover the city.

Had to walk 2 km after the concert. The train wasn’t passing in the nearest train station, the bus neither. I joined a bunch of other people and walked to another train station.

Ate roll cake and mochi from IIMORI, a French-Japanese Pâtisserie. Tasty but a little expensive.

Got some Ghibli merchandising from Atomax for my family.

Went to the NMIXX pop-up store near the airport to get an overpriced cap, collaborating to JYPapi’s pension fund. The cap wasn’t available but I had already spent 30 minutes going there, so I ordered one home. Yay sunk cost fallacy!

Sold the Serge Mantra II panel. It’s a great synth but I don’t have enough space on my desk (or brain) for it.

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  • Picross DS. Improved my times in Normal Mode to get the Extra Stage and finished it. Continued playing Free Mode after that

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 12 of 20262026-03-22T00:00:00+00:002026-03-22T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/03/22/week-12-of-2026Added an AI usage policy, after reading about it in Denis’ weeknotes. Nowadays it feels like half of the internet is AI-generated slop.

Wasn’t able to maintain a daily habit of exercising, so I’m walking instead.

My family gave me flowers, sweets and two albums as birthday presents:

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]]>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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