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I never thought I'd be the sort of person who didn't look forward to their birthday.

This year has been a hard one.

For the past five months I've been leading the efforts to rebuild Zed's cloud infrastructure.

I turned 31 today.

A little over a week ago I saw a tweet1 from Bryan Cantrill announcing that Oxide and Friends would be on a "dog days' hiatus" until August 4th.

My friend Steffen recently turned me on to the ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft.

Last Friday the Spotify algorithm suggested that I listen to the new Beautiful Death album, No Grave Can Hold Me.

In a rare turn of events, I'm writing this year-in-review in advance of the last few hours of the year.

Cohost recently announced that the service will be shutting down at the end of this year.

On Being Ready This piece from Isabel really speaks to my present state.

Bad Fruit This article from Ian comes at an apt time for me.

The dialogue in this film is stellar, so much so that I feel woefully inadequate while trying to write down my thoughts about it.

I've seen bits and pieces of this movie over my life, but had yet to sit down and watch the entire thing.

On my 25th birthday my dad told me "you're now closer to 30 than you are to 20."

Since early 2019 I've been using Zola to power my website.

For the past few days I've been taking daily walks around my neighborhood.

The Zed docs have been in need of some infrastructural love for a while.

I woke up early this morning to go to my semi-annual dentist appointment.

On February 2, 2024, I declared bankruptcy on an open-source project of mine: redux-persist-transform-encrypt.

Today is your birthday.

I make no secret of being a bit of an AI skeptic, however, I will give credit where it's due.

In the past I've typically bundled up my goals or resolutions for the new year along with my year-in-review post.

I haven't written a year-in-review since 2019.

Today is my first (official) day at Zed Industries.

Today marks one week since I started working on my programming language, Crane.

Earlier this week I found myself scouring my house for the pen to my Wacom table.

Something I've seen come up—typically in code review—in the past year is the alphabetization of different constructs within source code.

Over the past few years I've done a terrible job of doing year-in-reviews and setting goals for the new year.

We use Threads1 pretty heavily at WorkOS.

Greetings, travelers.

Today is my two-year anniversary at WorkOS.

The things I want to remember are rarely so apparent in the moment.

I turn 28 tomorrow.

There was a time where I lived without internet.

In October 2013 Snapchat first launched stories.

There was a time in my life where I found static types burdensome.

Returning to a video game after a hiatus is often a jarring experience.

This past week was the second Hack Week at WorkOS.

Cohost is bringing back memories of Tumblr before it declined into a barren wasteland.

Back in December 2014 I spent a lot of time hanging out in IRC.

Today I found myself doing some load testing on our API service at work.

There's been a dearth of activity here for a while now.

Greeting travelers.

As a child, I was very much a Lego enthusiast.

Hello again, travelers.

A few months ago I asked "how hard is it to format a number?".

Yesterday I found myself in a position where I needed to know the dependency graph of tables within a Postgres database.

When building React components I often find myself in situations where there are groups of components that regularly appear together.

The answer, as it would appear, is "very".