What I’m doing now
Life
- I’m trying to get Irish citizenship through my grandmother, who was born
in Belfast. It’s tricky because she was adopted, and at the time (1925) adoptions
weren’t recorded by the government, so while I have a bunch of surrounding
documentation – including what I’m 95% sure is her birth certificate – I’m
missing a step linking that birth to her adopted family.
- Ella is in college! Surprisingly she’s nearby, and it was a very mature
decision of her to choose the strength of the program vs desire to live
elsewhere. Doing great so far.
- Still making lots of bread and other baked goods,
though I’m no longer posting photos of every bake because it feels weird with
so much other stuff going on.
Work
- Now working at Diamond Kinetics as a Lead
Software Engineer! I’m reaping some rewards of working well with people over the years,
and it’s a lot of architecture improvement while still keeping everything running. I’m
working with some new technologies – Firebase, Google App Engine – which are fine, but
some of my old tricks don’t work with them.
- I’m not onboard the AI coding train. Partially because it’s change, partially because it’s
just wrong for a lot of my work (making sense of some spaghetti), and partially because
coding is how I think about solving problems, and I can’t just skip over the thinking step.
That may be a failing of mine, but it is what it is.
(updated 16-October-2025; see Derek Sivers for inspiration)