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It's been a while, so first of all I wanted to assure you I am not dead. Secondly, I wanted to catch you up on the things that have been going on with me.

People often try to make advice as actionable as possible, and for good reason. This advice is not that. This advice is frustratingly difficult and vague, but has been instrumental in shaping my career. Hopefully it can do the same for you.

Our CI has been testing a lot less than we thought for months, all because of a very sublte versioning bug. So after a couple fialed solutions I decided to just dive into the specification to get to the bottom of this. In the hope that you won't have to suffer this issue like I did I decided to write it down. Here's what I learned.

Coding is hard. Coding things to go fast is even harder. In this blog post I'll be exploring why it is hard, and why you should do it anyway.

A blog post on why we evangalise, why we hate those that do and my own role in both of those.

'You just don't understand what it's like' is a pretty common sentiment when talking about marginalisation, but I wonder if that's really true.

Nushell is a really exciting new shell written in Rust. I used it as a daily driver for a while and I have a lot of opinions about it.

"No False Options" is a simple principle: only offer choices that you are okay with others accepting. It is harder than you think, but very transformative, so let's talk about it!

NaNoWriMo is a challenge to write 50_000 in one month, and I did it. It was a really surprising expience and I think it's worth talking about that.