The 2023 Retrospective

In 2023, among many other things I:

• Bought a nice wallet to hold my 9 (!) credit cards
• Read 7 books this year. Half in French, half Sanderson ♥
• Built a Stable Diffusion bot using serverless GPUs from Modal.com
• Went for Kayaking out in the open ocean which ended up being one of the most reflective experiences I’ve had
• Took the Test de Connaissance du Français and scored a B2
• Went for a Formula E race
• Built my very own mechanical keyboard
• Started intermittent fasting
• Bought a nice watch for myself
• Went to an Opera performance
• Read Solo Levelling
• Built 3 x LLaMA models to replace dormant Telegram / IRC users
• Met 3 friends from IRC and 9 from Telegram in the meatspace ♥
• Visited Goa for the 2nd year in a row
• Went to a concert by The Strokes
• Visited 5 countries
• Wrote 2 blog posts

This year’s retrospective is more of a log than an introspection. I worked far too much this year and took far too few breaks.