Hello, World

Last year was a pretty big one for me. I turned 30, I rediscovered the joy that I found in programming, and did a lot of other really important growing. As I write this, I am sitting at my mother’s dining table in the UK, over for Christmas in between moving from Sydney, Australia to Vancouver, Canada to live with the love of my life.

I struggle with finishing things off. Really putting a bow on things. At the start of a project, all of my excitement tends to get shovelled into the esoteric details of the thing: one specific mechanism that is particularly tricky, or one particular ornament that is specifically beautiful. This has its pros and cons, of course, and I’ve spent a lot of my career working at keeping the good parts of these tendencies while developing strategies to, you know, actually ever deliver anything. However, this leaves my hobbies in a state of disrepair.

Ever since I really got my life back together in 2018 or so, I’ve thought about — and begun to develop! — several different places to store my writing and share it online. This latest attempt is by far my lowest effort (a nearly default Quarto project) holds a lot of promise for me. So let’s see what happens.

Happy New Year.