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Updates, versions and milestones.

v2.6.7Major Release
2026-09-04

Two Modes, One Site

Introduced a complete dual-mode architecture built around the idea of 0 β†’ 1. 0 is the origin: dark, empty, baseline. 1 is the first departure from it: light, movement, a new beginning. Alongside the redesign came a persistent progression system, hidden interactions, console commands, and a site-wide collection of easter eggs.

  • Added Zero Mode β€” the original dark / void-inspired theme.
  • Added One Mode β€” a full white theme built around β€œ1 means begin again.”
  • Added cinematic 0 β†’ 1 and 1 β†’ 0 transitions across the entire site.
  • Added persistent mode state through localStorage.
  • Added large environmental typography including ONE, BEGIN, START FROM ZERO, and other hidden references.
  • Added an invisible six-step progression system: [0] found nothing, [1] found something, [2] broke a baseline, [3] annoyed a pingu, [4] read the source, [5] reached the end.
  • Added a hidden 6/6 completion moment for anyone curious enough to find everything.
  • Expanded the Command Palette with secret queries: 0 β†’ 0 results. perfect., 1 β†’ one result: a new beginning., baseline β†’ did you mean: break it?, nothing β†’ you found it.
  • Added keyboard interactions: 0 β†’ giant zero overlay + Zero Mode, 1 β†’ white flash + One Mode, F β†’ forking reality... permission denied.
  • Made the logo unnecessarily interactive: 2s hover β†’ yes. still., 7 clicks β†’ ego: NaN, 10 clicks β†’ click_count = 10 / productivity = 0, double click β†’ ilovebaselines β†’ no.
  • Added project-page whispers including: some survived., things I broke first., baseline detected., baseline broken.
  • Added draggable-pingu project reviews: code review initiated. 🐧
  • Added Open Source / Licenses easter eggs: closed source detected: 0, good., fork me. I dare you., as it should be., beautiful., lawyers were here.
  • Added a five-click MIT license interaction because apparently that was necessary.
  • Added hidden Blog search responses and fake results for: nothing, 1, penguin.
  • Added a slow-scroll hidden post: you weren't supposed to find this.
  • Added an interactive version-history descent back to: v0.0 initial commit. added nothing. broke nothing. started anyway.
  • Added the permanent end-of-timeline release: v∞ still unfinished.
  • Exposed a tiny DevTools API: window.ihatebaselines.zero(), window.ihatebaselines.one(), window.ihatebaselines.pingu().
  • Added footer idle messages: 3s β†’ ...still here?, 6s β†’ seriously?, 9s β†’ fine. +1 curiosity.
  • Added 0 rights reserved. β†’ 1 chance reserved. hover interaction.
  • Added a minimalist loading screen built around the site name and a fading 0.
  • Removed all explicit scroll down labels and arrows.
Zero is where you are. One is proof you moved.
v2.0Competition & Features
2026-08-26

Algorithms to Neurons & TheWall

A competition win, a permanent collaborative canvas, and a much better way to move around the site.

  • Published the complete From Algorithms to Neurons competition write-up.
  • Finished 1st place in the AI Competition, Group A.
  • Finished 9th place in the accompanying 24-hour hackathon with team Camera 505.
  • Added a 13-photo event gallery.
  • Added a Facebook-style mosaic layout for event photography.
  • Added a 3D coverflow carousel for browsing competition photos.
  • Launched TheWall β€” a permanent live multi-user whiteboard.
  • Added continuous board auto-save.
  • Added custom drawing colors and board themes.
  • Added the global Command Palette (Ctrl / Cmd + K) for search and quick actions.
  • Reworked full-screen rendering and scroll behavior for smoother interactions.
build things. leave traces.
v1.9.5Experience
2026-08-16

UNTOLD Emergency

One week behind the scenes at UNTOLD, documented day by day.

  • Published a seven-day volunteer diary from UNTOLD Emergency in Cluj-Napoca.
  • Documented volunteer training and venue preparation around Cluj Arena.
  • Added backstage and production-area photography.
  • Included moments from live sets and festival operations featuring artists such as Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, Zara Larsson, and Swae Lee.
turns out infrastructure is also a kind of engineering.
v1.9.3Experience
2026-07-19

CEOAI 2026

Five days helping coordinate people, schedules, venues, and everything in between.

  • Published my volunteer experience from the Central European Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence.
  • Helped coordinate delegations throughout the event.
  • Documented activities at the CREIC venue.
  • Added highlights from the BMW workshops.
  • Added event photography from the delegation gala at Salina Turda.
AI competition, human logistics.
v1.9.2Competition
2026-06-06

RISE AI Final Round β€” 2nd Place

A stronger final, harder tasks, and a second-place finish.

  • Finished 2nd place at the RISE AI Final Round.
  • Competed in an international-style AI contest hosted on Nitro-AI Judge.
  • Published a breakdown focused on solving ML problems under strict time constraints.
  • Added the Nitro-AI scoreboard and competition material to the Work archive.
second place. still above the baseline.
v1.9.1Hackathon
2026-05-27

Skillab Innovation Challenge β€” 1st Place

Built something useful, shipped it under pressure, and somehow won.

  • Won 1st place at the Skillab Innovation Challenge.
  • Built Skillab Radar, an AI-assisted labor-market analytics platform.
  • Worked around skills data, job-market signals, and regional workforce insights.
  • Built the project for the Cluj IT Cluster challenge.
  • Published the project repository as open source.
  • Took home the €1000 first-place prize.
idea β†’ prototype β†’ first place.
v1.9Olympiad & Design
2026-05-18

ROAI Prelot β€” Problem Setter

For once, I wasn't solving the problem. I was writing it.

  • Designed Funtime Beach, an original model-based Reinforcement Learning task.
  • Built the problem around ideas inspired by Gymnasium's Blackjack environment.
  • Contributed the task to Romanian AI Olympiad preparation material.
  • Worked on contest environments and evaluation setup.
creating the problem is a different kind of solving.
v1.8.5NLP
2026-05-10

NitroNLP Hackathon β€” 3rd Place

Transformers, time pressure, and one more podium.

  • Finished 3rd place at the fifth edition of the NitroNLP Hackathon.
  • Competed under the username PretrainedLanguageModel.
  • Fine-tuned transformer-based models under contest constraints.
  • Evaluated and iterated on submissions through Nitro-AI Judge.
language models, limited time, unlimited overthinking.
v1.8AI Competition
2026-04-16

ROAI Selection Camp & Nationals

A difficult stretch of competitions and one of the better reality checks.

  • Finished 33rd in the ROAI Selection Camp Qualifier.
  • Reached Top 19 in the national selection stage.
  • Competed across machine learning, algorithms, and AI-focused problems.
  • Left with a much clearer idea of how much there still is to learn.
ranking is temporary. skill compounds.
v1.5Competition
2026-03-21

European Statistics Competition

A detour from models into data, evidence, and interpretation.

  • Participated in the European Statistics Competition with team Society.
  • Worked with national statistical datasets.
  • Explored data interpretation, evidence-based reasoning, and visual presentation.
  • Learned that the hardest part of data is often explaining what it actually means.
numbers don't speak for themselves.
v1.0Launch
2026-07-10 Β· 16:49:07

ihatebaselines.com

The first public version. Not finished. Not particularly sensible. But online.

  • Launched ihatebaselines.com.
  • Started with a custom Catppuccin Mocha-inspired dark theme.
  • Added draggable pingus.
  • Added the first Work and Blog sections.
  • Added smooth physics and small interactive experiments.
  • Shipped the first public version of what would eventually become this site.
version one is just a baseline.
v∞ β€” Horizonalways
always

still unfinished.

There will always be another version. There will always be another thing to learn. There will always be another baseline.

  • loss β†’ 0
  • curiosity β†’ ∞
  • finished = false
a baseline is just a suggestion to go further. I hate baselines πŸ’”