This is a now page, where I share what I'm currently focusing on in life and how I spend my time.
Last updated 2026-09-12 from Zürich
Taking a reading course on Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems as well as courses on Theoretical Computer Science, Numerical Analysis, Complex Analysis, Measure Theory and an elective on "AI and Society".
I am helping organize Zürich AI Safety together with other very passionate people, where I am helping with outreach, designing some merch (coming soon!) and preparing events on theoretical AI safety towards the end of the semester (which will hopefully result in a few blog posts too!)
I started working part-time on DevOps / Infrastructure at VSETH where I'll mainly be responsible for backups as part of the modernization effort of the Kubernetes cluster running the apps behind ETHZ student organizations. Working with some great people and very grateful to be learning more about the different aspects of DevOps from them.
Whenever I find spare time I continue working on my long-term goal to depend on fewer third parties and run more on my own home-server. I am gradually setting up open-source replacements for the few third-party services I still rely on: Google calendar and tasks, password managers, GitHub, and above all how I consume content, swapping recommendation feeds I cannot inspect for RSS and LLM-assisted aggregation I can audit myself. Instant messaging and social media are the hard ones, since their value is the people already on them, which takes a larger shift to move. I am also hoping to experiment with running open-weight LLMs.
Doing all this securely and reliably is unrealistic for one person, and self-hosting an LLM can get expensive. I think it belongs in high-trust communities, shared with friends and family. In that sense self-hosting is really a tool for decentralization and censorship resistance.
I am building a custom split keyboard input module for my Framework 16. For it I recently learned KiCad and build123d, and I have really enjoyed the latter. CAD-as-code fits naturally into normal software workflows, and b123d has clear advantages over the older OpenSCAD. Blog post coming soon.
I dedicate at least 30mins a day towards learning Russian, following The New Penguin Russian Course textbook and using Anki for vocabulary. It is still widely spoken in the post-Soviet countries (who's culture and history I find very interesting) and is a good foundation for understanding the other Slavic languages.
Basketball once a week at ASVZ on Hönggerberg, and gym four times a week on a push-pull-legs split. I am looking forward to ice hockey again in October.