1. Introduction Last year, I spent some time thinking about how to invest the incentives from my previous employer. Instead of putting everything into stocks or something more conventional, I ended up buying a personal desktop machine with unusual power: a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 512GB of memory and
A few days ago, I happened to notice that not a few people are still reading an article I wrote almost three years ago about Python on macOS. That surprised me a little. In tech years, three years is almost eternal. Back then, Intel Macs were still common. Apple Silicon
1. Introduction It’s no longer just hype: coding agents are everywhere. I’ve been using Claude Code heavily at work. My current company runs on Spring Boot with Kotlin, while my previous one used Go. I understand our business logic well and the kinds of problems we solve every
Speaking of the year-end, I had a surprisingly peaceful long vacation this time, since we didn’t go on any road trip. In the first half of the break, I dusted off my Steam Deck and finally dug into a game that had been waiting in my library for a
The day after Christmas, we went to see the circus: Cirque du Soleil: ECHO. The venue was in very familiar territory: the parking lot of Oracle Park. The last time I saw Cirque du Soleil there was in 2019, for Amaluna, right before we all entered the long dark tunnel
As a lapsed Catholic, I carried mixed feelings while visiting so many grand Catholic cathedrals during our recent Italy trip. It brought back my old emotions and an old ritual I had almost forgotten. When I lived in Korea, my family had a quiet year-end tradition: attending Christmas Eve Mass.
Filoli is my family’s favorite destination. I’ve already written about it more than once (especially in my previous post, Nightfall at Filoli). Among all their events, the Holiday Lights have become our quiet Christmas ritual. We visited last year, loved it, and decided this would simply be part
I originally thought Day 7 would be the last post of this trip. But, as travel usually does, a few things happened on the way home that felt like they deserved their own chapter. For the first time since Rome, we finally had a proper hotel breakfast on our last
The next and final city of our Italy trip was Milan. Interestingly, I’ve always preferred the name Milan to Milano. It would be probably because of Inter Milan and AC Milan, names I’ve been used to for years. Still, I have to admit that “Milano 2026 Olympics” sounds
On the early morning of Day 6, we left the hotel while the city was still calm. Except for Rome, we had chosen all our hotels mainly for their locations, and in Firenze that paid off — it was only a five-minute walk to the train station. Our Italo train departed
We got up early on Day 5. There was no breakfast service at the guesthouse, but we still had plenty of leftovers from the previous night’s steak dinner. And the room was equipped with a Nespresso-compatible machine and a generous supply of capsules, which made our morning far easier.
On the morning of Day 4, we said goodbye to Rome and headed to Firenze (Florence). I know it is Florence in English, but for some reason, I have to prefer its Italian name—Firenze. Firenze has been my favorite Italian city ever since I first visited in 1999, back
