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- Last updated: 2023-06-30 + Last updated: 2024-06-22 +

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Work

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+ Still in Toronto, still working in software at Amazon. + Having been here for more than 2 years now the impostor syndrome is now a background hum instead of all consuming. + My team writes tools to help automate and test new machine setups. +

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Life

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+ I am engaged and living with the most wonderful woman I have ever met. + Planning our wedding (slowly bit by bit) for next spring.

- In Toronto, working at Amazon. + Actually planning for the long term financially now that I am lucky enough to have a job that leaves me with money to save and invest after the bills are payed. + It still feels new to have that cushion and to plan long term, definitely enjoying it. +

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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

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+ Got my blue belt just before the new year. + Still training as much as I can. + The team here at GB Toronto has become an external family. + I am so grateful for the community. + First competition of the year for me is July 13th. + Have a touch over a Kg to cut to make weight. +

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Learning

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+ I am working to learn Japanese and Portuguese on Duolingo. + I love the program and it is 100% worth paying for, but the fact that even when paying it keeps asking for ratings, putting widgets on my home screen, or turning on notifications bothers me. + You already have my money now please don't bother me. + Finding the lessons really helpful.

- Spending much of my time trainning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. - I am coming up on a year of training and am loving it. - I have done Tae Kwon Do and Muay Thai in the past, so this is my first forray into grappling. - It fits my temperment perfectly. - I found that I did not like the performative (read non combat) aspects of Tae Kwon Do. - And I don't have the aggressive instinct and willingness to hurt that Muay Thai needs. - I have started competing and plan to contiue doing so. + I started studying for the CompTIA ITF+ certification test but that has fallen off in the last little bit. + I have been learning hardware and networking playing with my home network and a small homelab consisting of my NAS and a few raspberry pis. + Just not very stoked on going for certifications and much prefer to learn this stuff by just playing around with it than reading textbooks and doing practice questions. +

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Tinkering

- I am thinking of and working towards more independence in life. - Derek Siver's tech independence post has been extremely useful and catalyzed actually setting up my own server. - I didn't follow it exactly. - I decided to use Arch Linux instead of OpenBSD. - I do most of my programming in Rust for making personal tools and wanted an OS with better support for that. + Have just finished setting up some self hosted software. + Firefly for budgeting and personal finance. + Pihole for local network addblocking and as a DNS server. + Syncthing to keep all my devices synchronized. + Slowly working to have more and more of my digital life hosted myself, and it feels good to have control over these things even though it is more work. +

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+ This website is the main thing that I have been working with. + I rebuilt it using HTMX and a Rust backend. + No more Javascript. + Next step is to add some curated pages. + Links that I have found interesting. + Tools that I use. + I have found a lot of utility in those pages on other personal websites and have started working on doing the same with this one.

Awstin