hmmm got a FAANG offer but it's a half-downlevel with the same comp as my current job and with a very cool but very high risk team for layoffs

What the hell is Microsoft doing with Xbox

5 years ago I was laid off and got to keep the fully loaded 2019 Macbook Pro. It's served me well but it was the last Intel Mac and holy hell, those things have slowed down so much ever since Apple went all in on ARM. It's started to become impossible to do interviews on that thing because screen sharing would make even small Android Studio build times crawl to 10+ minutes, and there were a few interviews where I had to suspiciously stop sharing my screen while I built a project.

I swapped it out for an M4 Macbook Air and it's insane how much faster it is, even being an Air.

I should've gotten started on preparing for this move wayyyy sooner

My team just spent a week in Banff for a team offsite and wow, that might have been the best trip I've ever been on

12th consecutive weekend of rain

After five years I'm moving out of Boston. I'm feeling a little conflicted. I really like the city, love being able to walk and take the train everywhere, love being surrounded by thoughtful and highly-educated people, live in a really great and cool area, get to enjoy all four seasons without the headache of having to shovel in the winter, and have great neighbors, but I'm also in probably the most flexible time of the rest of my life and it'd be foolish to praise someplace when I haven't really lived elsewhere for comparison.

I'll also probably be pretty close to solo-ready at my flight school by the time I move so it kind of sucks that I'll be losing that progress by switching to a new plane and instructor in a very different, much busier airspace, but I'm not really in a rush to finish anyway and I'll at least get training in more diverse environments.

Oblivion

Taxes 😤

The new Epic Universe park is looking pretty cool, I'm excited to visit later this year

It's completely insane the amount of destruction one very stable genius can do to the world. And there's not even a clear motive.

Been stupidly busy.

Energy drinks changed too much, too fast. Red Bull and Monster didn't have too much caffeine and tasted pretty bad (you eventually develop a taste but to a fresh palate their standard flavor is like dish water). That's fine I guess, because you just get through one or two for the energy and not the enjoyment.

Now we have dozens of new energy drinks like Celsius and Alani that have way more caffeine and focus on delivering a good taste. Why are you trying to do both? If it doesn't taste like crap then I'll want to drink a second (especially since new energy drinks are much smaller in volume than Monster), but now I don't want to do that because drinking two Celsius is the caffeine equivalent of drinking five Red Bulls! You weren't supposed to solve both problems.

I hate the a11y and i18n abbreviations. Yeah, I understand they stand for the 11 letters between accessibility and 18 letters between internationalization, but it still comes off as pretentious to me.