I’m Saahbs aka Mike Sabala. This here is my very own corner of the internet, free of external control, expressing my personal opinions and published without any warranty.
My Motto:
“Endorse your beliefs, not people or organizations which align (at the moment) with them, while remembering that ends do not justify the means”.
Quotes:
- “Less is more” – Mies van der Rohe
- “Keep it simple stupid” – Kelly Johnson
- “Measure trice, cut once” – proverb
- “shoveling bits in data mines in the dim light of burning midnight oil” – saahbs’ work
Most Recent Content:
I’ve been waiting for my upcoming weekend trip for months! This is to be the highlight of 2026 flying season, a long weekend break from work and an adventure.
As the departure day (planned for today) approached, the weather clearly did not cooperate. First major fall weather front came in with convective1 conditions, low ceilings, precipitation, mountain obscuration, high winds and thunderstorms.
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I found my new programming language to focus on: Gleam1. I like to deep dive and learn new tools in depth, always looking for general purpose tools and ones scalable enough to be reasonably efficient to use for a wide range of applications. Gleam1 is my new language of choice for writing internal tools, daemons and backend::frontend code. You too can try it at tour.gleam.run.
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This weekend I went on a four hour 145 mile loop through mountains and valleys with the return leg on highways. For most of the ride, it was 35C (95F). While moving, the mesh jacket and pants did a good job, but my helmet didn’t. It only allows for vizor fully closed, unlocked with a tiny gap or fully open. Anything in-between doesn’t stay in position. I fixed it by designing a vizor lock.
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