Posts tagged: personal

It’s that time of year, Coming back to work out of a big break and thinking about big changes.

Keep up with daily notes, maybe not here, I tend to have more targeted notes here with full blog posts, but for work daily notes is POG and needs to be leaned on. LLM’s do really good at ingesting markdown and reminding me of things that I need to do, or did, or need to follow up on.

Social media is changing, quickly becoming enshitified, I enjoy interacting with some of the people I’ve met online, reading their opinions, and learning from their experiences. I don’t need their hot takes, don’t care about their political takes. I like boring posts that typically fade out of whats picked up on the algorithm. I like a good 5-10 minute read or a long form podcast talk. I will be aggressively collecting more rss feeds to read and keep up with.

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Life comes in waves, and sometimes you need to set down some of your projects to focus on others. For the first part of 2023 I’ve really had a lot of family stuff to focus on, we also are pretty new homeowners and are still trying to get our new to us house cleaned up and modernized.

You can see in my growing list of repos that I have poked around on quite a few side projects over the past few months. This has been quite relaxng to me, mostly things that I use to learn from, but also a lot that are tools and things I use that bring me joy.

I haven’t wrote about it at all yet, but I have really been starting to lean into pydantic on all of these side projects. I have really been enjoying the type system. A good friend @pypeaday got me hooked and we have been throwing around this phrase that he learned from a math professor “Make it So”. The idea boils down to leveraging pydantic to make all the values you want to exist up front, or fail validation, then have no more checks scattered all over your code.

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I can still rememember the day that we we realized our new baby girl had gone days without a bowel movement. Holding her while she looked as if she was about to pop at any moment, completely nervous for what was to come.

Little did we know what that strong little girl had in store for us. She was perparing us for something much bigger. Little did we know how much scary medical journeys would soon become a “normal” part of our life. We spent two solid years fighting for this girl every day.

I still remember that Fall day. That day you drove my car home alone while I sat with our kids, patiently awaiting your arrival. When you arrived, no words needed to be spoken, the minute you opened the car door I knew our lives had changed forever.

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