It's been a rough year, as mentioned in my earlier post, I changed job at the end of last year, but this was not an optional thing, I got laid off from Thoughtworks NL. This was not the end of the world, but was a big shock for me, specially since this was the job that allowed me to move to Amsterdam.

I was lucky enough that right after that, the company Lean Tree from the UK hired me to continue my job as a consultant on the client that I was already working on.

Now I'm finding myself trying to find new motivation for work related stuff, I feel like I'm just moving forward, without questioning much if what I'm doing right now is what I want to do. I want to feel excited about work again and I don't see how to do that in my current environment.

At least everything else is going great for me right now. I am grateful of where I am.

2025 will be an interesting year.

I'm moving right now to a new apartment in Amsterdam, yes, I live here since last year.

I started a new job at the end of last year.

I bought a boat last year, its an old sailing boat, but its big and we have parties on it around the canals in Amsterdam.

What is going to happen this year?

It's that time again when I decide to rebuild this blog with the idea of testing new technologies and hopefully start writing consistently, which has not happened really.

This time I'm excited about the way the blog is built, using MDX and React Server Components, using Decap CMS and my own git repository as the backend for the content. I love this setup.

I'll try to write more and possibly explain how I'm building this, the custom preview component that I use and how to leverage the Gitlab API to fetch content on real time.

See you soon,

JC

I'm a fan of RTS games and 0AD has been one of those games that I wanted to try for a couple of years now, so I installed it on my new laptop, a Dell XPS 13 with a 4K (retina) display. The game works like a charm, of course, but the GUI is not configured by default to work on a HiDPI screen.

I was googling a bit and came to a thread in the forums, posted a few days ago, and found out that there's an option that scales the game. Add this line to your user.cfg file.

gui.scale = "2.0"

If you don't know where this file is, look at this page. There's info for Windows, Linux and OS X.

Go on a try it, the GUI looks a bit pixelated, but nothing really annoying.