I celebrated my 10th year working at Corteva, the sound of which feels unreal. They were not lying about how quickly time passes as you get older1. Right now, I’m on a team that specifies the architectural underpinnings of our Product Development organization. My focus is almost exclusively on the frontend, with technologies like React, Vite, and Nx, with a lot of focus on the ‘Type’ part of TypeScript. Since about 2019, I’ve tried to build things that help other people build things and it’s a true joy to know that you’ve helped make someone’s day easier with good, simple, no-FOMO tech, and exceedingly good documentation and communication. And I really love writing documentation2.
My wife and I moved to a lovely apartment in the Historic East Village in Downtown Des Moines and we’re loving it. Our neighborhood is vibrant and full of interesting and lovely and strange people.
My little niece continues to get cuter and I can’t wait to see her for her first birthday 🥰
For fun, I’m trying to get back into practicing calligraphy, taking photos, writing more letters to people, taking a lot more walks than I do right now, teaching myself the Rust programming language, reading as many seminal graphic novels as I can, working through this textbook, and trying to get the highest quality sleep I can each night. Good Sleep is the only New Years resolution I’ve sought to keep for many years3 and I’m pulling a solid C+ here so far.
My poor wife’s had to hear me say “Tempus Fuuuuughit” more times than a human should have to endure when discussing this apparent dilation.↩︎
I tend to ignore remonstrations from a few who don’t think that emojis and dad jokes belong in ‘serious’ or ‘professional’ documentation. People generally don’t like to RTFM and I see it as my job to get them from the top to the bottom of an article by any means necessary 🤘↩︎
A minimum of a 150 days of it per year.↩︎