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I saw this book recommended in several places, and it’s actually quite a good refresher. It’s not so much about the technical aspects of refactoring (or tidying it up), but more about how to approach it. A quick and worthwhile read.
Quick life updates
I ran my second half marathon in 2024, it was the Royal Parks Half Marathon in London, and my first Marathon in Valencia, also in 2024. 2024 was the year I ran the most, an incredible (to me) ~1200km across 12 months. In fact, I think I ran too much, which kind of burned me out of it - I haven’t ran much in 2025. In 2024 I had shin splits and runners knee pain due to the increase in the work load. Ah, I also managed to ran my fastest 10km, which was something I was trying for quite some time. For so long I couldn’t run 10km under 60min, but finally did it!
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Someone was debugging the bus station timetable some weeks ago. West Wimbledon.
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Getting overly excited about two things recently: the Oasis reunion and flipping a classic (or future classic) car. Incredibly (but not surprisingly), there’s nothing related about them. However, both can lead to frustration and massive overspending.
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While setting up this blog again, and reading (and fixing so many grammar/spelling mistakes), I realised that plenty of things has happened since I move to Europe. I guess this the real value of writing down blog posts. It works as a time capsule. I can totally travel back in time when I read these old, silly and mispelled texts.
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Got back to running early this year. I bought a Garmin FR 255 and I’m trying to do all the Daily Suggested Workouts (or as much as I can) and I hope I can improve my fitness level in a few months.
I finished my first half marathon
Last quarter of 2019, I decided that I’d run a half-marathon & marathon in 2020. Unfortunately, 2020 hit us hard, and I had to postpone my plans. At that point in time, I had no idea whether I’d be able to run any of the races anytime soon. For a while, I kept training hard, but gradually I started putting my training sessions aside. Although I skipped the marathon, I finally managed to finish a half-marathon.
The sweet road of building a custom date picker
Recently I had to replace a date picker component in an Angular application and I decided, along with my teammates, to go with a custom solution. The previous date picker we’ve been using was a component from ngx-bootstrap library, which is a great one.