Week of March 2-8: Zombies, trials, and ditching ChatGPT
Bit of everything this week. Couple of movies, a new self-hosted toy, and I finally cancelled something I should’ve cancelled months ago. Korea trip is also taking shape.
Tv series/Movies
- Nuremberg (2025) — Watched this on Sunday and liked it a lot. Historical drama about the Nuremberg trials, focused on the prosecutors going after Nazi war criminals. The reconstruction is well done and it keeps you on the couch, though it gets a bit too Hollywood-romantic at times. Russell Crowe is good in it. Worth a watch if courtroom dramas or WWII stuff is your thing.
- Train to Busan (2016) — I’m about to go to Korea and literally take that train, so I figured I’d watch the zombie version first. Korean zombie movie, high-speed train from Seoul to Busan, passengers fighting through hordes of infected in the carriages. It’s a solid zombie film. Not trying to be anything else, and that’s fine. You want zombies on a train? Here you go.
Read(ing)
- How to know a person by David Brooks – I finally finished it! I don’t even want to think about how long it took me to read it. Interesting, don’t get me wrong, but I really struggled to finish it. I’m not used to reading two books at the same time and I always read in sequence, so this book took me much longer than expected and held up the start of other books.
- Human Acts by Han Kang — Just started and it already has its hooks in me. It’s about the aftermath of the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea, 1980, told from multiple perspectives of people caught up in the massacre. Han Kang writes in a way that’s both brutal and poetic. I’m only a few chapters in and it’s already heavy. Since I’m heading to Korea soon, reading about this part of its history feels right. Progressing slowly because it’s the kind of book you need to sit with between chapters.
Study
- Starting next week, I’ll remove this section. It doesn’t make sense to separate what “I’ve studied” from Personal Projects. What I study outside of work is always tied to a personal project, so it makes sense for the two sections to collapse into one.
Personal projects
- 3D printed MagSafe phone stand — Printed this model and it works great. Works both vertical and horizontal for charging. One of those prints where you think “why didn’t I do this earlier.”
- How I built a walking tour guide in Obsidian with Claude Code: I wrote this blog post about how I used Claude Code and Obsidian to plan a Sunday morning walk.
Travel
- I spent the weekend in Rome. Well, actually Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, with a birthday dinner for a friend who was turning 50. Here’s a post about how I used Claude Code and Obsidian to create the itinerary for a Sunday walk: How I built a walking tour guide in Obsidian with Claude Code
- Booked a DMZ visit — Signed up for a tour of the Korean Demilitarized Zone near Seoul. Always wanted to see it in person. A border that splits a peninsula and two countries that are technically still at war, just sitting there between guard posts and gift shops. Looking forward to it.
Around the Web
- Cancelled my ChatGPT subscription — Finally did it. Claude is my daily driver now and has been for a while, so paying for ChatGPT on top of that made no sense anymore.
- Pigeonpod — Found Pigeonpod, a self-hosted thing that turns YouTube videos into audio and exposes them as RSS feeds you can subscribe to in any podcast app. Installed it on my Qnap NAS and connected it to Apple Podcasts. If you watch a lot of YouTube but would rather just listen, this does the job well.