Notes

just spent 10 minutes writing an extremely detailed GitHub Issue and, seconds before posting it, realized what the problem was and how to fix it. Friday Brain 🫠

tomorrow, my team launches what is probably the highlight of my career so far. i haven’t been able to say anything like this since i helped build the original GraphQL API at GitHub back in 2016

git commit -am "🤡🤛"

i’ve been using Bridgy to backfeed replies/likes/reposts from Mastodon and Bluesky back to my own site… and now i’m finally showing them off. feels good to check off another box!

steamed some eggs for breakfast

✅ Taxes: filed

TURBOTAX: We found something missing from your federal return. State Tax Refund Worksheet: Item Q line 2 should be entered.
ME: i don’t know what that means. can you tell me?
TURBOTAX: it means go fuck yourself lol

woof, i forgot about that 50% price hike for JR passes back in October. i guess this’ll be my first time just buying tickets as i go 🤷

you know it’s been a long day when you almost go to bed with your contacts still in your eyeballs

welp, after almost five long years, i’m finally going back to Japan in late March! which is 🌸sakura🌸 season!! and this time i’m going with my brother!!! i’ll have two nights in Tokyo and two in Nara, then he’s meeting me for four in Osaka (after his speaking gig is done), then three more in Tokyo!

went with griddled mortadella for today’s breakfast sandwich 😗🤌

for Lent, i’m giving up

just not sure how we’ll ever surpass the fried potato. have we peaked as a species?

it’s like i always say, better &. than sorry

we live in a simulation

the tech company superbowl ads are, as usual, especially cringey

i don’t really care about this sport but tbh, if the chiefs win, i will fully believe that we are living in a scripted world

just learned that bus fare went up by 30 cents last month because my preloaded $2.50 transit card didn’t work. cool

ME: maybe i’ll play around with fragment caching on my website
WEBSITE: bro the worst response times you’re getting are like 120ms. chill
ME: but if i’m not spending time on unnecessary optimizations, what am i even doing with my life?

i almost exclusively make espresso these days so my pour over abilities are v rusty… but this one came out so good that i said “oh my god” out loud to myself ☕️👌👀