What am I doing now?

This is my “now” page inspired by Derek Sivers. It answers “what I’m doing now?“. My life, projects and priorities. I post an update here every 1-3 months.

What’s up as of October 2025?

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about foundations, the things that quietly hold everything else together. From heritage and language to networks and code, they’re easy to overlook until you step back and see the patterns. This season has been about reconnecting with those roots: sharing small pieces of Poland’s culture, revisiting the invisible infrastructure that powers the internet, and building my own AI lab from scratch. Each one, in its own way, reminded me that progress isn’t only about what’s new, but about staying curious and grounded in what’s already here.

🇵🇱 Capturing Heritage with AI and Heart

This year I joined Wakacyjna AktywAKCJA: a beautiful initiative by the Polish Development Fund Foundation that combines tradition, technology, and care for our surroundings. The theme is about protecting our heritage and the natural world.

Together with Bielik AI, the first Polish large language model, the project aims to understand our culture, language, and traditions better, and even help create tools for people who are blind or visually impaired.

I decided to take part by sharing a few photos from our family vacation in Poland, small glimpses of nature, architecture, and local life that make me feel connected to home. Anyone can join by sharing images or short videos that celebrate the beauty of our landscapes, crafts, and regional food. It’s a simple way to honour where we come from and how technology can support what truly matters.

⚙️Watching Where the Internet Lives

I recently watched a video describing in a fantastic way a very fundamental part of today’s technology world: the data center, a facility housing computer systems and all the components that keep them alive. It made me pause and reflect, especially since this is the field I used to build and the video is sponsored by the company I currently work for, and continue to shape every day.

These places are not just rooms full of servers; they’re interconnection hubs that quietly keep the internet running. The company’s carrier-neutral approach allows any network or cloud provider to connect directly, creating a powerful network effect that fuels innovation. With software-defined networking through platforms like Fabric, organisations can create private network interconnects in seconds, replacing the old world of manual cross-connects and cables. Even ideas like dark fiber and redundancy, once niche engineering details, now define the resilience of everything from AI systems to everyday apps.

It’s fascinating to realise how this invisible infrastructure, and the people maintaining it, form the real foundation of our digital lives.

🪛 Building My Local AI Playground

I used to be a Linux sysadmin, so you’d think setting up my own server would be easy, right? Yeah… not quite.

Recently, I built a local LLM lab at home: a quiet, powerful little AMD box (GMKtec EVO-X2 AI Mini PC) running Ubuntu 24.04, Docker, and models like Mistral 13B and gpt-oss-20b-GGUF. The specs were great, but the process? Messy, frustrating — and deeply rewarding.

What made it work was teaming up with my AI assistant. I shared my hardware setup, goals, and rusty sysadmin skills, and we co-built the system step by step. It reminded me that we’re living in a time when building serious tools like a local LLM playground is possible again — even for those of us returning to hands-on tech after years of leadership work.

Now my little server hums quietly under the desk, running Ollama, llama.cpp, and a few Docker containers, a personal sandbox for learning, tinkering, and rediscovering the joy of building.

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This page is inspired by Derek Sivers “now page” movement.

Updated: 24 Oct 2025