2022 in Review

January 1, 0001 • Category: Personal

Another year! This one went by so quickly, in no small part due to a new member of the family.

Things I learned

Having a set routine for the day is underrated
Using formula and having a baby that sleeps through the night seem to prevent 90% of infant parenting stress.
Snap closures for baby clothes are the worst.
Baby wearing is awesome.
Compostable diaper services actually work pretty well.
There’s nothing better than hearing a baby laugh for the first time.
Throat Coat Tea really does soothe a sore throat.
I greatly prefer split, ortholinear, concave keyboards. There aren’t many!
Debugging declarative configurations like Terraform just turn into slow imperative programming.
The only Google-born software tool that I enjoy using is Go. Everything else has a terrible developer experience.
Internal software platform teams should focus on composable building blocks. It’s the only way to keep up with a growing and changing business.
When cooking with carbon steel (pan or wok), it’s important to really heat up the pan before adding oil or other foods.
On the other hand, baking bread starting with a cold oven gives better oven spring.
Beef sausage is not an adequate substitute for pork sausage in New Orleans-style red beans and rice.
You can never have too much kitchen freezer space.
You can never have too much frozen, backup New York-style cheesecake.