What I am doing now
Last updated 8. September 2024Welcome to my “Now” page! This is a snapshot of what I’m currently focused on in my work, personal projects, and life. It’s a way for me to stay accountable and give you a look into what’s going on in my world.
Personal life
My girlfriend and I moved together to a flat in vienna in June. Now we are making the most of finally living together and try to spend a lot of time exploring. It is a bit hard to keep in touch with my friends at times since the move, so I’m putting more effort into meeting up with them more often. I’ve neglected my fitness over the past few months with so many changes happening, so I am rebuilding a regular habit of exercising.
Work & Professional Life
Right now, I’m involved in enterprise-level web development at my workplace Studio Mitte. We’re working on various sites, portals, shops and apps using a diverse stack I love: Laravel, Nova, Vue, Angular, Typo3, WordPress, and Pimcore. My role is gradually shifting towards DevOps, focusing on development and deployment setups with Docker and GitLab-CI. I’m learning how to ensure our processes run smoothly and efficiently.
I’m still enjoying my aside-the-job role as a university mentor and teacher, where I guide students through the world of full-stack development in their internships.
Hobby Coding Projects
On the side, I’m working on a small, unorthodox RPG game with RPGMaker MV that’s packed with lots of humor and inside jokes my friends will appreciate. Think of it as a quirky mashup of Gothic 1 & 2, where a random dialogue option might just kill you!
I’m also preparing to release two open-source browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store — these have been in an experimental state for a while, and I finally want to publish them!
- Obsidian Search for Web: This extension allows you to search your Obsidian vault simultaneously while searching the web in your browser. It aims to seamlessly find and link your personal notes as you do research online.
- Voice to Text: Adds a floating voice recording button to your browser. It transcribes your recordings instantly using Whisper and stores the result in your clipboard, ready to be pasted wherever you need it. It’s thought as a handy tool for anyone who wants to speed up note-taking or quickly transcribe ideas on the go.
Even more on the coding side, I’m about to release an cron monitoring service package for Laravel on Packagist. It’ll provide developers an easy way to monitor the health of their cron jobs. Alongside this, I’m working on a Pa11y wrapper for PHP to simplify accessibility testing, which will also be released on Packagist soon.
Learning
I’m learning Filament PHP in my free time, to level up my ability to create dynamic Laravel admin panels for future projects. It’s been a great tool to simplify backend management and I really enjoy the developer experience so far. To test and deepen my knowledge I wanna build some useful tool with it. I’ll try to incorporate the PHP packages I’ve created to see how smooth it is to actually use them.
Future Goals in a Nutshell
Here’s what I’m aiming for over the next few months:
- Explore the joys of Vienna with my girlfriend and friends.
- Rebuilding my exercising habit.
- Release my two browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store.
- Publish the external cron monitoring package and the Pa11y wrapper for PHP on Packagist.
❓This is a now page. I got the idea from Derek Sivers blog and I really liked it.
Feel free to contact me if you want to get in touch about anything.
