On the one hand, 2025 is almost over.

On the other hand, 2026 hasn't even started yet.

I've recently joined Hornet.dev as a Founding Engineer. Looking forward to solve many challenging problems in the coming months!

Marshmallows are for team players!

Remember to spread a little joy, even if it will be fleeting

For various reasons I ended up upgrading a lot of my Apple gear over the past months.

Watch Series 4 -> Watch Ultra 2
MacBook Pro 13" 2017 -> MacBook Air M3 2024
iPhone 14 (work-provided) -> iPhone 15 Pro (personal)

Air with Apple Silicon is the best laptop I've ever owned!

Got the Letterboxd year in review email today. Not sure how healthy this is:

MOST WATCHED THEME
Twisted dark psychological thriller

MOST WATCHED NANOGENRE
Fighting, Cool, Killing

Great write-up of what happened in the database landscape in 2024: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

I'm going to start printing this graph and stapling it to people's forehead (via berthub.eu/articles/pos...)

My houseplants watching me pour water in the coffee maker

Advent of Code is mostly about the journey you go on from "wtf did I just read" to "oh, that was actually not that hard"

I've grown vary of new config file formats, but this thing by Apple doesn't look that bad: pkl-lang.org - static typing, custom validation and can generate to many widely-used/terrible formats

just sayin' . . . 🤦

I haven't read up the AT protocol yet, but I really like how you can use your own domain to prove your identity. Setup was very easy too: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

So far so good! This thing reminds me of the early days of Twitter, lots of excitement and enthusiasm. Hoping it will survive its eventual "Eternal September"!