2023 September Yet another month is over and it’s time to recap what I’ve been up to! Looking back on the month I am unsure what I have done haha, so it’s nice to check the calendar and Daylio. I watched Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back in Grieghallen with live orcestra, that was nice! And I also attended an alternative concert at the Griegacademy with modernistic classic music, that was also nice!...

2023 August Whosh August went fast! I’ve been super busy doing something every weekend and day! I had a lovely weekend trip to Copenhagen, a super nice city where you can bike everywhere and eat delicious food. And of course there is a nice night life as well. I would especially mention the freetown Christiania, the “lawless” area inside Copenhagen. This area naturally attracts organised crime as you will easily see if you visit the main street and “Pusher’s street” where they sell weed and other drugs openly with large signs....

2023 July July has been a nice month with vacationing and hanging out with friends. I have also finally been able to work on personal projects again, which is great. Finances July was pretty good and overall my net worth excluding my apartment increased by around 5%. I am still a fan of last month decision to sell all my index funds and buy forex secured index fund. To track the difference in performance I purchased a small amount in the similar index fund but not secured....

You might have seen my other blog post about the homemade trailmap I created in Mapbox Studio with data from OpenStreetMap. I have now finally created a static website that will generate and export these maps for any location in the world! The website is available at https://mathiash98.github.io/trail-map-generator and the source code is available on GitHub. The general implementation details: In Mapbox studio I created a plain style with close to zero data and labels, since I would like to render these myself with custom styling not accessible from Mapbox on low zoom levels....

2023 June Last recap was a pleasure to write, so I will continue with the same format. Just writing something makes me more creative and writing more, I got to write my MacOS setup and have more ideas coming up. Finances June and end of june was a pretty mediocre with a small increase in the markets. I moved all the crypto I had in the Polygon network into Firi, to make it simpler to track my crypto....