When a new year starts it is time customary to evaluate the year that passed. Looking back I was unhappy about how I was not able to dedicate as much time as I would have liked to programming. My new role as Service Manager of the Machine Learning Platform, even with the help of Nicholas had many burning issues, which have high priority as we need to deliver the new machine.

I like zig quite a bit, recently I participated to sycl, did a presentation on sarus-slurm at work in which I created a PoC with Zig, and finally I finished putting together my thoughts on Zig which I started quite some time ago.

I went to the Software You can Love conference, not for work but because I wanted to. I enjoyed it quite a bit, its subtitle is “celebrate the art of creating software for humans” and I think it fits. The idea behing it is expressed quite well in The Idealism and Practicality of Software You Can Love - Loris Cro - Software You Can Love 2022. I didn’t only receive a nice programmable badge, but I got to hear several very interesting talks.