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84 lines
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id: now
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title: Now
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date_created: 2020-01-01
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date_last_updated: 2024-07-11
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description: What I am up to now.
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Last updated: 2024-07-11
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<h2>Work</h2>
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<p>
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Still in Toronto, still working in software at Amazon.
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My team writes tools to help automate and test new machine setups.
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Just got a promotion from L4 (entry level software engineer) to L5 (regular software engineer).
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Was not something that I chased but there is an "up or out" when in the L4 position so it is really nice to have that worry off my mind.
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<h2>Life</h2>
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I am engaged and living with the most wonderful woman I have ever met.
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Planning our wedding (slowly bit by bit) for next spring.
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My brother is getting married soon, so we are preparing to travel back to my hometown for that in a week.
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He is the happiest I have ever seen him and I am so grateful for that.
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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.
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It still feels new to have that cushion and to plan long term, definitely enjoying it.
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<h2>Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu</h2>
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Got my blue belt just before the new year.
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Still training as much as I can.
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The team here at GB Toronto has become an external family.
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I am so grateful for the community.
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Competiton is this Saturday.
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I have made the weight, however they opened the weigh in on Friday evening which is unusual.
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Means that I can cut water weight aggressively and re-hydrate before the first match so I don't feel terrible.
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So putting a little of it back on.
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We have a lot of people from the school going.
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It is going to be a very fun day.
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<h2>Learning</h2>
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I am working to learn Japanese and Portuguese on Duolingo.
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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.
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You already have my money now please don't bother me.
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Finding the lessons really helpful.
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I started studying for the CompTIA ITF+ certification test but that has fallen off in the last little bit.
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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.
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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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<h2>Tinkering</h2>
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Have just finished setting up some self hosted software.
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Firefly for budgeting and personal finance.
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Pihole for local network addblocking and as a DNS server.
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Syncthing to keep all my devices synchronized.
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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.
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I rebuilt it using HTMX and a Rust backend.
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Added a <a href="/uses">uses page</a> recently with just a list of the common things that I use every day.
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Going to add links and other curated stuff next.
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I love these pages on other personal websites and want to contribute to that.
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I am looking at restructuring the site into more of a <a href="https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/">garden than a stream.</a>
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It is a structure that I find much more interesting and fits with how I want to build much more.
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Treating most things as timeless and growing as opposed to a strict timeline.
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It is how I keep most of my personal notes, dates more of as reference than things needing to be in order.
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Will see how that works.
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<p>
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Awstin
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