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The social app experiment, Social Beaver , goes offline after more than three years of continuous and uninterrupted use. What started as a mini project to master the React state management container Redux ended in a full-fledged Twitter-like social network running on Firebase.

Graduating as a mechanical engineer got me almost zero base knowledge needed from programming (except math and a bit of Matlab). During my years of professional coding, I picked up enormous amounts of knowledge related to computer science, but I occasionally still feel there is a lot of room for improvement.

Not too far, not too expensive, not too many days, not too many tourists. These were our objectives when we were looking to book our first family trip.

After a bit of a break, I'm thrilled to be back with a fresh blog post. As you may have noticed, this one differs from the usual travel and photography content. Thanks to my wife's suggestion, I've decided to diversify the topics I cover here on the blog. My blog, my rules.

What do a rainy day, library, job rejection, surprise and my brother have in common? I know, right? A strange combination.

It was three months since my friend Simon and I came to Kerikeri. We built our nests and were quite cosy up there. We had a roof above our heads, so we didn’t need to think of where we are going to sleep each day, we had unlimited fast internet, which is quite a rarity in Kiwi land, we had jobs, we met a lot of spectacular friends there, and it didn’t even cross our mind to move out, to travel. Heck, now that I’m thinking, Northland was almost all we had seen since coming to New Zealand!

Northland, the tropical region of New Zealand is home to the majority of the Maori population and the place where I've met a lot of amazing people.

When I was talking to people who visited New Zealand, among all the advice they gave me, this was always one of them: "Get out of Auckland as soon as possible! There isn't much to see or do there."