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Thank you zolar, hello GetYourGuide

One of the saying goes like this. The end of one journey is a beginning of another one.

After more than 2 years at zolar, it is time to say THANK YOU and explore another challenges, this time at GetYourGuide. But let’s take it easy.

Initial thought

It must have been the beginning of this year when I started to play with an idea of job switching. I am not a person who likes to switch the jobs, though I know it’s very common in the field I work in, but I am old school, who likes to finish what he starts. At the end, we all were created in God’s image and our God is God of IT IS FINISHED, not of almost or half done. And I carry the same mentality. Unfortunately, or fortunately (I am not sure), the project I spent my last 2 years working on was discontinued so it gave me free-pass to try things out.

Looking back on the 1st quarter of 2025

I am already deep in April, but I own it to myself to have a look back on first 3 months of this year (2025). Let’s pay the debt to myself and do this.

Work

Let’s have a look on the work as I spend quite a lot of time there.

Easypay

We continued to work on our own buy-now-pay-later solution, internally called easypay. We continued our work to bring everything itno life in our new shiny SaaS platform.

Switching to Arch Linux from Macbook

One simple sentence and the impact is huge. I spoke with our IT guy and then I was asked why I chose Mac OS, when everyone would expect me to use linux. Which was actually a correct thought. I primarily use Neovim and conssole applications, but got stuck on Macbook for so long.

Thought took deeper roots and I decided to do a switch. I had to get all the approvals, but it was quite easy. Company wants to have happy employees and therefore we are the owners of our destinies. There are no limitations and therefore the road was open.

Start with split keyboard, again

I like to try new things, I love to take on a new challenge. And using split keyboard was and is one of my todo list for a while now. I have tried ti many times in the past, only to find myself going back to normal keyboard every time. I do not like this, I do not like when I set a goal for myself and I fail. Regardless of what the actual reason for the failure is, it must not stop me from trying even harder next time.