It's been a long year. Shit sucks right now. I'm hoping to make some improvements in my work and how I run my home this year, especially with regards to spending more time keeping a kitchen that's tidy, and I'm eager to cook delicious meals in. I intend to improve my personal finance excellence this year, as I'm wont to impulse buy, and definitely trying to be a bit more intentional with how I aim towards long-term goals in addition to ensuring my needs are met at the moment. Part of this is just needing to pause and think about how to meet my needs in a way that requires more effort and less $$$.
Reading
I found out about Tangled, an ATProto based Git forge - it runs on the same tech as bluesky! It has good support for jujutsu, which is cool af.
I'm still working on understanding the minute details of how Makefile's work… and exploring alternatives.
- https://seanbone.ch/makefile-hacks/
- https://just.systems
- https://just.systems/man/en/what-are-the-idiosyncrasies-of-make-that-just-avoids.html
Appreciating Zach Leatherman's <browser-window /> again rn. I got to use it to document our desktop app screens at work using Storybook snapshot tests.
Cancellation of tasks is spooky 🎃:
- https://vorpus.org/blog/timeouts-and-cancellation-for-humans/
- https://sunshowers.io/posts/cancelling-async-rust/
Love this post about rewilding gardens and how if we relinquish a little control, we can often do a lot more:
In Taoism, there’s a concept known as wu wei, or effortless action. Water can carve away massive rocks over time by moving around them instead of trying to flow through them. That’s wu wei. It’s not doing nothing, as I mistakenly understood it when I was younger. It’s doing more by doing less.
— Chris Ferdinandi in https://gomakethings.com/wild-gardening/
Chris goes on to expand that point into our ability to impact the world beyond us; we're all much more able to impact our immediate surroundings better.
But those forces are too big, too entrenched, to fight head on. They need to be fought. But throwing ourselves into the woodchipper to symbolically resist doesn’t really help people. Instead, lots of small actions, things you can control, that work within what currently is, can affect bigger change over time.
https://fly.io/blog/parking-lot-ffffffffffffffff/
https://fly.io/blog/macaroons-escalated-quickly/
Found Brain Baking by Wouter Groeneveld, enjoyed their post recapping December: https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/01/december-2025-and-a-recap/
Cool post about making CRDTs fast: https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/
Watching
I’ve been working on DanDaDan’s second season & Sakamoto Days S2 as well 💜. They’re both pretty cute action + slice of life shows. Haunted Hotel follows the same format as Bob's Burgers and Central Park - family antics centered around a family business that they live in. It's a good format 😄.
My partner's been showing me Cowboy Bepop, definitely worth finally watching it :D
Finally got around to Schitt's Creek, a delightful show.
Listening
Been listening to HAIM's Days Are Gone (10th Anniversary Edition) . Falling is such a banger for plane take-off. I was traveling a bunch during pride month, so I had the opportunity to listen to this a lot ☺️
They just released a sweet new album, it's all vibes