Aug. 21, 2026
A Daydream or a Goal?
Thinking about life lately
Nicola Beirer
My Corner of the Internet
Routes on the map
Units
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Cycling · 9 legs · Sep 28, 2026 · 1195.0 km
When You Have Too Much Time on Your Hands
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Cycling · 2 legs · Jul 11, 2026 · 351.6 km
First ever STP with a great group of friends!
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Mountaineering · 1 legs · Jun 20, 2026 · 36.3 km
First mountaineering experience. Summited Colchuk Glacier but snow started losing its firmness right as we were getting close to Colchuk Peak. Amazing Experience.
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Cycling · 3 legs · May 23, 2026 · 348.3 km
A Bike Trip Not Far From Home
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Cycling · 6 legs · Feb 9, 2026 · 631.0 km
Last minute cycling trip through central Taiwan and a bit of the west coast before starting a new job
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Cycling · 1 legs · Apr 18, 2025 · 163.0 km
My first century for my 25th birthday
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Cycling · 2 legs · Mar 15, 2025 · 69.3 km
First Bikepacking trip with Anthony was interesting...
From the Blog
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Revisting Flight AI
Update on aviationdocs.net
Sept. 8, 2025
My First Aviation Project
My First time building a full-stack website that is meant to help pilots study and find FAA regulations!
Projects
see all →AI RAG to query documents related to General Aviation
AI-powered chatbot that uses Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to answer questions about general aviation documents. Users can upload PDF documents and interact with an intelligent chat interface that provides sourced answers from the uploaded content.
Python · Django · RAG AI · PostgreSQL · Docker · AWS · Vector DB
Basketball Reference Team Stats Scrapper
My first major programming project - a Java application that scraped comprehensive NBA team statistics spanning 30+ years from Basketball Reference. Used HTML parsing and regex to extract data, generating hundreds of CSV files. The resulting dataset was published on Kaggle and received positive community feedback.
Java · Web Scraping · HTML Parsing · Data Processing · Regex
LLA Database Project
A complete file-based database implementation in C for managing employee information. Features binary file format with custom headers, CRUD operations, and robust error handling using return values instead of exceptions. Built as a learning project to understand low-level programming concepts.
C · File I/O · Systems Programming · Memory Management