In case you don’t know “Halt and Catch Fire” is the name of an amazing show from AMC. It’s hands down one of my favorite TV shows, especially among the shows with a tech theme. The story takes place in the 80s, and has a lot of elements from real stories of the early computers but in short it tells the story of few visionaries and talented engineers that go about innovating in the nascent world of computers and go forward to predict the internet and create the first networked games and online communities.

Sometimes when the task at hand is too complicated I feel overwhelmed and I just do nothing. Doing nothing might be an exaggeration, to be more accurate, I do anything but working on what I should be working on. Today was one of those days. In the evening I started to get done a significant part of the platform I’m working on but after 1 hour of research and making some conclusions on the direction to take, I couldn’t get myself to actually write any code.

What’s the best way to start a day? To go to a nice café, order coffee and a nice pastry. Something like croissant or pain au chocolat or anything else, just a good pastry from a good bakery. I see you my American friends, good bakeries are probably in short supply in your neighborhoods but those who live in certain parts of Europe, for example in or somewhat around France, usually have good bakeries, almost everywhere.

For all mankind from AppleTV+ is one hell of a show. It gives the millenials (including me) and Gen Z a glimpse of excitement that Gen X (post boomers!) from the space race and going to the moon. It’s an alternate history in which Soviets make it to the moon before the US. I like that the show narrates the story of a few characters separately so there’s hopefully at least one that you can relate to closely.