Newsletter - Péter Szász (Page 2)

A collection of 42 posts

Week 26, 2024 - Offers and Tiles

As the school holiday started, I was mostly off this week spending time with the family, hence the short update this week. On Wednesday, I managed to complete a 40x40 max square in Tiling, a cycling and hiking game I’ve been playing since 2017. To celebrate it, I created

Jun 28, 2024 2 min read

Week 25, 2024 - Fixes, Improvements and AI Agents

Summer is on, at full speed. Temperatures are getting dangerously close to 40ºC on some days. School is over too. All these will make me slow down a bit in the next few weeks. I’ll try to keep the Friday updates on, but realistically there’s going to be

Jun 21, 2024 4 min read

Week 24, 2024 - AI coding, Search and Creativity

As some of you are probably aware, we had the European Parlament and local elections in Hungary. As we discussed on Monday in our podcast with Jeremy, the Budapest mayoral election was a crazy race. At some point during the vote count the difference between the leading candidates was only

Jun 14, 2024 4 min read

Week 23, 2024 - Destroying and Creating

I’ve got the perfect timebox for this week’s newsletter: I took my daughter to soccer practice, and she finishes in an hour. Go! 📋 What I learned this week I distilled my notes from Craft Conference and finally chose a listicle format: 10 takeaways from the 10th Craft Conference.

Jun 7, 2024 3 min read

Week 22, 2024 - Craft

I write this newsletter sitting in a slowly filling auditorium just before the second day of the tenth Craft Conference is about to begin. I haven’t been to a professional event this big since the pandemic, and it’s great to see the scene buzzing like nothing happened. It

May 31, 2024 3 min read

Week 21, 2024 - Frustration and Happiness

An important milestone in our young podcast series with Jeremy this week: we had our first guest on the show! We talked with the CPTO of Lunii about their introduction of a 4-day workweek and the use of AI in educational toys. Watch it here if you missed it! In

May 24, 2024 5 min read

Week 20, 2024 - Collaborations and Layoffs

Today’s downpour made me grateful for the sunny spring weather earlier this week. During a short cycle trip, I saw a dozen rabbits standing on their back legs to see what was up, then sprinting away from me. The week went away slowly, with steady progress on multiple fronts.

May 17, 2024 4 min read

Week 19, 2024 - The Retrospective

Some weeks start slow, forcing me to cram everything into Friday — and there are ones where I can pick up momentum on Monday, sustain it through Tuesday, and then deflate towards the weekend. The current week was an example of the latter. It didn’t help that I spent most

May 10, 2024 4 min read

Week 18, 2024 - MCU Jam

The week was cut in half because of Labour Day, most of which I spent with the family harvesting elderflower and making strawberry jam with it. It took the whole day, but I enjoyed the first hike of the season — and the process of making jam is also a fun

May 3, 2024 6 min read

Week 17, 2024 - Substack and AI Assistants

What an awesome week, full of spending time with great people. I managed to publish my thoughts on why companies should go one step beyond just tolerating, and fully embrace Celebrating Failure. I finished yesterday afternoon, and the first feedback is great, somebody even added that FAIL is just an

Apr 26, 2024 4 min read

Week 16, 2024 - Tidying Up

I spent 45 minutes Thursday morning cleaning up the walking labyrinth and its surroundings that I discovered last week. All the trash, cigarette butts, beer cans, paper tissues, pieces of plastic toys, candy wrappers, and empty bottles created a strong contrast with this peaceful little forest not far from the

Apr 19, 2024 4 min read

Week 15, 2024 - Slow circles

Monday morning I discovered the above labyrinth nearby and spent some time trying to walk it. Slowing down between taking the kids to school and starting the day felt energizing. In the spirit of trying out new things, I also went to my first-ever yoga class this week, and found

Apr 12, 2024 5 min read

Week 14, 2024 - Writing, debugging and history

We saw the temperature climbing consistently above 20ºC this week, allowing us to fit in a nice small hike. Our noisy steps startled a deer couple, causing them to run away right before us. It’s great to be out in nature. That said, I took the above photo right

Apr 5, 2024 4 min read

Week 13, 2024 - On Newsletters and the next Tech Radar

Happy Easter if you celebrate it — otherwise, enjoy a nice spring weekend. This issue got a bit long, I almost moved my thoughts about the new Tech Radar to a separate article to keep the size down. Eventually, I decided to keep it here: there’s a structure emerging in

Mar 29, 2024 8 min read

Week 12, 2024 - Homelabbing, Leadership and AI Music

🦸 What I learned this week Oh boy, did I learn! I haven’t spent this much time in the terminal for ages. I received the replacement SSD on the weekend for my 2011 Mac Mini and spent most of the week playing with it and learning about virtualization, networking, and

Mar 22, 2024 6 min read

Week 11, 2024 - Mobile development and AI in the terminal

This newsletter is going out a bit early, today we celebrate the 1848 Revolution in Hungary, and I’m planning to spend the day with family. I managed to attend the Craft Conf mobile development meetup this week. It appears that the industry is moving in two opposing directions simultaneously:

Mar 15, 2024 5 min read

Week 10, 2024 - Flowers and AI

Spring is here! No doubt now. The other day I was walking around with a light jacket only, and more and more often I can have breakfast on the balcony. And the tulips are starting to show their heads in our garden! Back when my daughters were younger, for a

Mar 8, 2024 3 min read

Week 09, 2024 - Rock and Roll

The blog is 1 month old now, and just like this week, February seemed to go by pretty fast. I had a good talk with a friend about mindfulness, and he shared a quote that he found funny in its absurdity (and I agreed with him): How to walk a

Mar 1, 2024 3 min read

Week 08, 2024 - 3D prints and reflections

This week flew by filled with meaningful discussions with wonderful people. I’m grateful for the chance to spend time with friends — over lunches, in cafés, through a video meeting, or a simple old-fashioned phone call. I’ve found that audio-only calls, especially when taken during a long walk, enable

Feb 23, 2024 3 min read

Week 07, 2024 - One-on-Ones and free art

Tech improvements on the blog, lessons from two articles, and free sources of quality illustrations.

Feb 16, 2024 3 min read

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