§04 ／寄り道／ SIDEQUESTS & STORIES

SIDEQUESTS.

Objectives that aren't the main quest. Things I'm chasing, things I shipped sideways, and things I dropped on purpose. Sorted by status, not by importance.

ACTIVE ／進行中

Currently running in the background.

[03]

[SQ-01] · ONGOING

Read a vending machine without Google Translate

自販機

active

Get fluent enough in hiragana + katakana to buy a drink in Japan without translation-app cope. Currently at 'can confidently spot コーヒー'.

languagejapan

[SQ-02] · ONGOING

Ship one real thing in Zig

active

Not a hello world. Not a benchmark. Something a human would actually download and run on purpose.

langengineering

[SQ-03] · ONGOING

Sub-3:30 marathon

active

Slowly turning compute-bound legs into something that can survive 42.2 km without renegotiating life choices at km 32.

bodylongterm

COMPLETED ／完了

Finished, shipped, or survived.

[03]

[SQ-01] · 2023 →

Co-founded HackNitra

ハック

completed

Started a community / NGO in Nitra, Slovakia for devs, students, and civic technologists. Open data, AI, public-sector digitization, modern education.

communityslovakia

[SQ-02] · 2024

Argued for low-level languages at ReactGirls

completed

Gave a talk arguing every web dev should touch C, Rust, Go, or Zig at least once. Survived the Q&A. The framing is retired, the talk still rules.

talk

evidence ↗

[SQ-03] · every year

The Nth personal site rewrite

completed

Started, deleted, started again. This one (yggdrasill501.dev) might actually stick because there's nothing left to rewrite — it's already a single red dot and some kana.

Quantum computing notes

量子

abandoned

Was reading papers and writing toy Qiskit implementations on the side. The framing didn't survive the positioning rewrite — moved on, kept the notes.

physicsoff-brand