I guess the hip thing to do, is write a year in review.
2024 I have been pretty MIA from blogging. I didn't really have much tech to say, but I wanted to make a few posts every six or so months, just to let my friends know I'm still here.
This year has been a lot about self growth, with learning my parenting style, learning what I don't like about jobs, and more. I also spent a lot of time reading this year. As of Dec 21st, I have read 103 books, with still a little bit more to go. I think my yearly goal of 80 books is pretty sustainable.
Tech wise, I have moved all my hosting from DigitalOcean to Gitlab as a static site. This includes my blog that you're reading, the landing page, my old flight blog (that I might merge into this blog some day) and my linktree. This is free, and I don't have to pay digitalocean anymore. You can find how I strucuted all of that here: https://gitlab.com/Tyrel/tyrel.gitlab.io/
Work wise, I left REDLattice. I put in a year there, but it definitely was not the right place for me. I will not speak more on this topic again. Now that I'm at MangoVoice I'm loving it though. I'm still new enough to be onboarding, but good enough to be on call some times - even if that's the least enjoyable aspect of work.
Astrid is doing well, she's talking up a storm, sometimes complete sentences, but very understandable. I can't belive in March she'll be TWO already, so exciting. I love that Lauren is a stay at home mom, but I will be very excited when we put her in preschool, or school in the future. I'm looking to get back some of that quiet time in the house.
This year hasn't been a big exercise year, I haven't run much, despite another 5K on the runway at PTI coming up. Biking has kind of slipped off - but I did get a big bike trailer for Astrid to ride in and she seems to enjoy that.
Not sure what's going to happen next year, but it's been a quiet year for me really. I still haven't flown since 2021, so def retiring the flying blog was a good choice for now. Maybe I'll get my next ham radio license, study for that test. Who knows!
Until next time.
Since my last post, about Djangocon I've been pretty MIA. I think I mentioned I got a job, at REDLattice. I've been doing some Django, and other misc programming, and it's been pretty neat. It's a security company, so I haven't really been able to talk about what I've been doing.
It's nice to be back where I'm comfortable, in my tech stack.
I also have been picking up some side projects again, taking some classes, running, and more.
I ran a 5k last month that was on a runway (KGSO) - that was fun. I got sub 30 minutes, but my heart rate spiked REALLY high because it was cold and rainy, not a pleasant race. I really need to work on my running, my average is usually 185, which for a 36yo is awful. I was running slowly for a bit and got it down to a 165 average, but took a week off from runnning because of hurting my foot with a cut.
Gustavo Pezzi released another course on his Pikuma platform - this time it's Playstation 1 programming in C and MIPS. I don't really have the best foundation in C despite doing C++ a lot in college and before - so I've picked up his Graphics Programming from Scratch course. I really enjoy the way he teaches, he never rushes ahead thinking you know something.
One thing I realized is in college I never really did much advanced algebra, so I've decided to also take a Linear Alebra course from MIT's Open Courseware MIT 18.06. Reading math text books is definitely different than I remember, but it might just be this professor. I wish I had some friends doing this course with me, I need to be held accountable.
For other projects I've gotten some new wood tools lately - I traded a watch for them - so I have some ideas in mind now that I have a planer.
Other than that, my daughter turned ONE last month! The day before I turned 36. We had a big party for me, her, and our niece. The party was fun, but I def am not the best party host.
We're taking our first flight as a family next week, hopefully Astrid's not too loud. I was this age when I flew down to Florida and we found out I had hearing issues, so I'm worried for that.
Not much else is new, but felt like it's been time for a blog post recently, even if it's just a personal post.