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Wow, a long time has passed since I last wrote a blog post, huh? I’m pretty bad at doing this blogging thing. Also I guess maybe a few things happened this past year. Just a few.

My new year update is so late this time around that it’s well into the Lunar new year, but this is auspicious in its own way: as it happens, this year is the year of the Dragon, and that means it’s my year. And I intend to make that count for something!

Ain’t there?

Just a quick life update, shouted into the void as ever.

After three and a half years of running Debian Unstable as the primary OS on my personal laptop, shit finally hit the fan, as what should have been a routine apt upgrade command managed to break things so badly that systemd itself was segfaulting on startup and the system would no longer boot. I have since reinstalled Debian, and I figured I’d share my thoughts on the experience of intentionally running an unstable OS.

I can still remember the excitement I felt when the babysitter got off the phone to tell me I had a baby brother. I can still remember the kid in the crib who would wake me up by throwing his stuffed animals across our room at my bed. I can still remember my dad and me building the bunk beds that we’d sleep in for so many years after, and how we covered the underside of the top bunk with those glow-in-the-dark stars and silly stickers, and how he’d kick me through my mattress because I’m pretty sure that’s just what every bottom-bunk sibling on the planet does. I can still remember…

Last night, my wife and I found ourselves in the middle of every pet lover’s nightmare: a lost cat, a busy road, a careless driver. A moment’s hesitation that may have cost a life.

…A miserable little pile of secrets?

In 1978, the US toy company Mattel released a handheld electronic LED baseball game. In 2021, I had a 3D printer, a Raspberry Pi, and a hackathon to enter. And so, Mlattel Electronic Blaseball was born.

Wow, time flies when you’re a software developer trying to get hired in 2021 and you have to take dozens of virtual interviews before you get completely ghosted by behemoth companies and startups alike! Sadly, between actually doing the interviews and grinding Leetcode problems in preparation for the same, all the madcap mayhem has left me with only a little bit of time to make progress on the project. But progress I have made!

Let’s get this party started!

Wow, time flies when you’re a software developer trying to get hired in 2021 and you have to take dozens of virtual interviews before you get completely ghosted by behemoth companies and startups alike! Sadly, between actually doing the interviews and grinding Leetcode problems in preparation for the same, all the madcap mayhem has left me with only a little bit of time to make progress on the project. But progress I have made!

Let’s get this party started!

In 1978, the US toy company Mattel released a handheld electronic LED baseball game. In 2021, I had a 3D printer, a Raspberry Pi, and a hackathon to enter. And so, Mlattel Electronic Blaseball was born.

As I mentioned at in a previous post, I’m embarking on a musical project this year. The parameters have a changed slightly since that post, but the idea is essentially the same: I’ll be writing a musical diary for solo piano, with one entry for each month of 2022. I think it’s going to be kind of neat.