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The Problem: Scattered Notes Across Jira I had to prepare 4 presentations, and naturally, all the related information was scattered across Jira as individual issues. Stories, tasks, subtasks - all with different statuses, assignments, and nested under epics I could barely remember. The obvious solution: export everything to Markdown, build a local knowledge base, and write my presentations from there. But here’s the thing - Jira doesn’t have a built-in export to Markdown. You get CSV, JSON via API, or the browser’s “print to PDF” (which is useless). No CSV means no Excel, no easy formatting. ...

The Plan vs. Reality Remember my last post about fucking off and resetting? About how I should focus on small, low-stress tasks during vacation? Yeah. About that. I decided to look at my local blog version. Just checking what’s missing, you know? Casual Sunday morning browsing. Then I visited my friend Márton’s site at omnitiker.eu. Nice clean design. Professional. And right there - a downloadable CV. “Oh yeah,” my brain said. “I used to have that too. I should add that back.” ...

I Hate PowerPoint Let me get this out of the way: I haven’t touched PowerPoint since middle school. I forgot how it works. I don’t want to remember. When I worked at BitNinja, I had to give presentations all the time. Technical talks, demos, explanations. Every time someone said “can you prepare some slides?” I died a little inside. Not because I hate presenting - I actually enjoy it. I hate the tools. ...