There’s a saying: you should live in a way that leaves no time to write about it on your blog. Judging by the three-month gap since my last post, I’ve been living well. How did I manage it? Let’s dig in.
Building
My main project these days is Sales Signals. I started it in spring — the backstory is here: About the project. As GitHub tells me, over the three summer months I pushed 573 commits and merged 97 pull requests. The project moved fast: over the summer the version number went from 0.22 to 0.43 — which means more than 20 new features shipped, not counting the countless small changes that each got their own version. We could count those too; the exact number is 122.
You should live in a way that leaves no time to write about it on your blog.
Bragging about commit counts is a dubious hobby, so instead let me give the number that actually matters: 9375 dialogues run through the app (as per 2026-09-04) . Sales Signals is in trial testing right now, easing into paid access.
How else did I spend time in the editor? Counting commits, apparently. There were 920 of them across 17 of my 110 repositories. The second busiest project after Sales Signals accounted for 70 of them.
Cycling
What else filled the summer? A lot of cycling. I don’t think I’ve ridden this much since I was a teenager. Over the three summer months I covered 1,633 kilometres — 2,596 since I started cycling this season.
At this rate I’ll soon overtake the distance I’ve flown this year: 3,488 kilometres.
Unwinding
Speaking of flying. I finally made it to an event I’d wanted to see for years: the vintage airshow. On the way there I nearly missed my train, and was saved only because the train itself was running late.
I couldn’t bring the family along, but I took some photos to share with them — and here they are:
Honestly, my summer wasn’t packed with rest. What I got instead was a deep dive into the thing I love most — building BI systems — and it gives me enough of a rush that a holiday would feel like a punishment.
How do you unwind? Me — I just don’t wind up.
Still, there was one more thing I couldn’t skip: a solar eclipse. I found out about it a full day ahead — last time I learned about a total eclipse at exactly the moment it was happening, so this is progress.
Consulting
And there was one more important change over the summer: I officially became a Freiberufler — an independent consultant in Germany — in my beloved field of BI.
That means I can now officially invoice for my work, and, more importantly, take on more projects.
If you run a business and need better visibility into your operations, KPI tracking, or data-driven decision-making, that’s exactly what I can help with.
Feel free to reach out, or take a look at my services if you want to see what I can do for you.