Jan Kraus Blog

After a year of experimenting with AI coding tools, I've found a workflow that actually delivers.

A short look back on the year 2025, taking a minute to reflect on progress, experiences, and achievements.

On the last sunny weekend of August I had a chance to go for a short break and visit some places in Somerset, Exmoor National Park and Cornwall.

I usually don't write game reviews, as I don't feel very qualified to do so, but this one deserves it.

Yesterday I ran the 2025 London Marathon.

Third month of training for 2025 London Marathon is finished.

My second month in training for 2025 London Marathon is completed.

Keystatic is an capable yet relatively simple content management system that nicely integrates with Astro, my favourite static site generator / web framework.

An update on how the training for the London Marathon is going after, now that January is over and I'm almost at ⅓ of the training plan.

A quick recap of the year 2024, highlighting some of the personal and professional achievements, travel experiences, photography and running.

A small update with few reflections and photos from the past month.

Handling file downloads is a common requirement in web apps, whether it’s for exporting data as CSVs or generating PDF reports.

Its been a while since I posted some personal updates.

I recently added a photo gallery to my site, and Astro is a perfect tool for this task.

In my last trip to Tenerife, I've spent a few nights capturing the night sky.

Last year in December, I had a chance to travel to Tenerife for about a week.

For the last 4 years, Gatsby has been the engine behind this blog.

Earlier in August, I had the pleasure of spending a week-long vacation in Windermere.

While organising my photos library, I found some photos from a trip to Peak District I did some time ago last year.

The Seven Sisters Walk in Sussex is one of the most picturesque ones you can find near London.

A week ago, with a group of hiking friends, we went for a short getaway to Cheddar Gorge.

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to spend a few days travelling around the southwest of England.

Last weekend, Sunday, I strolled on yet another casual hike hosted by the Outdooraholics group.

I recently had the opportunity to visit India for two weeks in October.

Richmond Park is one of my favourite places in London.

Last month, in October, I visited India for the first time.

Summer is not officially over yet, and I've managed to salvage last sunny weekend to again join Outdooraholics for another hike.

Seeing rain predictions for upcoming days, I feared of possibility that the last warm weekend of summer was just passing by!

Just a week later, after my last hike, I joined another one with the Outdooraholics group.

This weekend, on Saturday, I had a chance to enjoy another hike with the Outdooraholics group.

With this tempo of updates, I will probably not finish my Iceland series soon.

Only a few weeks later, after my long hike in Brecon Beacons Mountains, I returned to the same mountains visiting the most spectacular parts, known as the Beacons Horseshoe.

At the beginning of June (the long weekend of Queen's Platinum Jubilee), I left London for a 4-day hiking excursion at Brecon Beacons Mountains in Wales.

I can finally feel that I'm breaking free from the misery mixture of being unmotivated, lazy and just feeling low.

Continuing my Iceland series, I'm ready to share the next part of the journey from my travel.

Welcome to the third part of my Iceland highlights.

I started last month with a review of my photos from the previous year's Iceland trip, and I've shared some bits from the first days of the travel highlighting the famous Golden Circle route.

I wrote and published earlier two photo stories from my trip to Iceland in 2021.

Going for a countryside walk on weekend is a great way to spend time.

On Easter Sunday, I spent some quality time enjoying a bit challenging yet very rewarding hike in the area of Leith Hill in Surrey.

Nested routes are a neat concept of Remix framework.

The erosion of the current working model was already happening slowly over the last decade.

It has been almost six months since the last update.

I went for a run today, dragging my ass from sofa, out through the door on the evening streets of Hamburg.

If you've read my previous story about the Fagradalsfjall volcano you know that I didn't have much luck witnessing actual eruption.

The Fagradalsfjall volcano was one of the key points of my trip to Iceland.

It has been a long (winter) hibernation season.

It was a bit spontaneous decision, it happened quickly, it took almost 3 months of efforts, but here we are.