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  • A Good Reset

    Just wrapped up the first month of the year. This time around, to my surprise, January did seem to speed along, bringing February bills quickly to the horizon. Rent, the most notorious of my escalatingly numerous expenses, is due in a week, are you crying with me yet? It was...

  • What do I want to do more of in 2024?

    Recently, I shared a questions sticker on my instagram page, for friends and acquaintances to ask random questions. Typically I do this as a form of low effort social media engagement, mostly to share memes and proffer mildly witty responses to questions asked, for my own amusement, as well as...

  • Where am I going?

    Waking up alone in a new city, to a foreign language, unfamiliar smells, and overwhelmingly new surroundings, the most natural question is where am I going? The conditions are just right for this sort of pondering. Do I want to see the museums, learn the history, climb the hills and...

  • BUILD Systems

    Recently, I have been working on making internal code buildable in open source, and the process has made me fall in love with build systems! But what exactly is a build system? you might ask. At its core, a build system is a tool for managing software development projects. Some...

  • Twenty Something

    I recently came across a story on Instagram that really resonated. It is an excerpt from a larger piece by Nicole. And it goes like; """ Being 20 something in a big city is both agony and bliss. Everyone is lonely, everyone is obsessed, everyone is hungry. A collective era...