Yoga – simple, with many benefits

In early summer I wrote a post about running. In that post I mentioned many injuries, and they gave me chance to gain new knowledge. Because of running, I started training yoga. First time during my trip to the USA, then few months off and then I joined to gym club and yoga exercises. Now I’m after more than half a year with yoga in my life, once or twice times per week and I can describe benefits that gives me this activity. Just now I can say: I really recommend anyone to try yoga. It’s amazing, how can it help in many completely different areas.

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Panaracer Gravelking slick review

I’ve already wrote two posts about Panaracer tires: first about Gravelking AC/Mud version, good for all round, with nice grip and good speed; second about Gravelking SK which is very fast gravel tire for dry conditions and also so fast on tarmac. This post is about their third model: Gravelking (slick). Yes, without any add-on in name. Is is good tire? Is it fast, what about grip?

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Panaracer Gravelking SS – review

If you read my blog regularly, you know, that I test a lot of gravel tires. In last year I tested few different models like Continental Terra Speed, Gravelkings AC/Mud or Gravelkings SK in the past. I tested also other tires but didn’t write reviews yet. Why I make such tests? Because I still looking for best tire for me: for gravel of course and with enough grip in forest paths, but also fast, not very wide, well accelerated on tarmac. Something universal, but for amateur sport and speed instead of slow recreation – I like slow rides, but… it’s not time for that yet. I wrote that I’m looking for, but probably it’s not true, because… I found such tires?

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Laravel – sort collection, JSON returns object

Sorting is very common operation in many languages and a lot of data. Of course the best way is to sort on database, because it’s created for such operations, but sometimes I work with smaller parts of data and do that on API server side. Since when I’ve used Laravel, I often use Collections instead of arrays – they methods are very clean, simple and offer a lot of possibilities. I also often sort collections before outputting them as, for example JSON – natural sorting is more than useful in so many cases. But there is one important thing: if you have associative array (or collection) and use sorting, you client will not receive valid array, but object. This short post will show you, how to deal with it.

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Pandemic advantages

May you live in interesting times – says the old Chinese curse for our enemies. We definitely had to live in such times, because hardly anyone expected, that the COVID pandemic would change our daily lives so much, it would affect, it would seem, completely peaceful functioning. However, nothing lasts forever, and changes are not so much something to defend against, but something to wait and prepare for: sometimes worse, sometimes better, but changes. Was that current situation only bad? Definitely not. In my opinion, the COVID pandemic has a lot of advantages, and a few of them would like to share with you in this post.

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