Life Update

Finally after 5 years of silence, an update!

I’ll keep it short so here’s a summary of things that have happened:

1. New job at remotely.works (May 2022)

Working with old colleagues in HR world, not very glamorous but brings good money (spanish standards) to the table.

2. My wife and I bought a house (January 2023)

Bye bye our savings! House is big (200 m^2, ~2K sq ft in freedom units) but old (from 1970s) and needs lots of work but the views are awesome and the lot is plenty big (1000 square meters or ~10K sq ft in freedom units). The only big items left are roof and some windows, we already got an electric heat pump, a shitty solar panel installation and 2 ACs for the summer.

3. We got two cats Haku (May 2023), a maine coon and Enano, a regular orange cat (adopted Dec 2025)

They mostly get along just fine:

4. New car: BYD Seal U (Aug 2025)

My tiny Skoda Fabia with 60 HP was a champion but gas prices only go up and the roads here are steep so I decided to go for an electric car. Initially I was more interested in a BYD Seal (has more boot space) but finally landed on the SUV version. Both have batteries that are very hard to go boom (LiFePO4 chemistry is awesome).

5. We got evacuated from home for almost a week due to fires

The entire town got an alert on their phones so we spent 30+ minutes stuck until cars started moving. Perfect moment to get out of the car and take this picture of the mountains by the south. It was a bit scary to be honest.

Later that same day, somebody from town shared this video with us:

No houses were burnt but it got very close (400m away from home). It was a stressful situation but it seems to be mostly over now.

6. SpaceSim is still alive and after re-doing it 4 times already it’s now very close to launch

I had many changes of heart about it. It started as an improve OGame but then I kept finding ways to merge more and more EVE Online mechanics. It’s now an odd mix of how both games could combined into one.

I spent months refining specs about every feature and that’s proven to be a great way to find holes and also really nice to ask some LLMs to implement an MVP to quickly verify if it’s fun and makes sense.

That’s all for now!