My employer sponsored the Big Data & ML/AI track, but the ticket came through a different door: Akademickie Stowarzyszenie Informatyczne at Wrocław University of Technology, where I chaired the board years ago. ASI was a community partner and had passes for alumni. Old student-association contacts still open doors — I am not complaining.

I am starting this year from migrating my server from old OVH VPN to the new one, and in the meantime I have decided to do some clean-up on all the data that I stored on the old one (I probably don’t have to migrate all three years of data, so why not?)

And as a first victim fell my WordPress instance — during the last year I decided to migrate some of my server services to external vendors (like FastMail instead of self‑hosted Postfix using iRedMail), and I decided that the time had come to also say goodbye to WordPress. A bigger platform makes it easier to reach other people and have my posts displayed, etc. So — new year, new service responsible for my blog!