what is it about the past that keeps me going back to it? good or bad whatever it is i just seem to find myself in these pensive, reflective, nostalgic moments so often i dislike having those experiences to start with. am i somebody who spends more time in the past or hallucinating about a different future? probably. i spend very littl...

This is my attempt at retaining things I've enjoyed reading so I can come back to it when needed. Can't promise readability for everyone but I'll do my best to categorize it as much as possible. Software Engineering, Career stuff • The next next job, Andrew Chen. • Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones, Zain Rizvi. • It’s tim...

2023 comes to an end today, and as a goal setting exercise and maybe just so I convince myself better times are ahead I'm going to spend some time to envision what my best life looks like a year from now. Off the top of my mind here's what I want done by the end of 2024: 1. To be married to my girlfriend and living with her, not handli...

I've been using Ruby on Rails since 3 years now. Got first introduced to it when I started working for Mindbody, and so far it's mostly just been that. Something I use at work. Now that I've begun to do my own projects in it I've noticed one pain point which tbh shouldn't even exist given how much Rails has grown and how fantastic the ...

Hello world! Got Hey! email a few weeks back and found out I can apparently email Hey World and that'll just...make it a blog post for the world to read? This is the test email that's to try it out. Pretty fucking fascinating tbh just insane how they could remove so much friction in blogging and make it so easy for anybody with a Hey! ...