Life, Work, and Everything in Between

We use NextDNS to reduce ads and try to establish some healthy social network habits especially in the evening when the doom scroll demons come to life. It was originally vibe-coded in Go to get a basic handle on the language, and provide a way to interact with an API from a service that I use at home. A few years back, I’d started learning Rust, but derailed for various reasons. I rewrote this project to get my feet back in the water and to prove to myself that I do still have the technical skill set to be a back-end engineer or an SRE after a couple of years out of the game.

Had lunch with one of the elders from our church a week or so ago. One of the things he and I talked about was prayer posture. I integrated this into my routine after he and I talked, but I’m taking a few minutes after the kids leave for school, facing the east and staring at the sunrise and consecrating my day to the Lord. When Jesus returns, he comes from the east, and this is a simple orientation of my heart to let go of my agenda for the day and point myself towards him physically as a way of seeking his face for his purposes for the day instead of my own. Maranatha.

What started as a staunch effort to not implement nix in my day to day technology has turned into a full on embracing of it. I don’t think I would have stuck with it had it not been for my LLM of choice: Gemini. With basic effort I was able to move from “I just want to manage my dotfiles and config in a better way” to “hmm, I could standardize my entire system”. I was using chezmoi, and it was fine. Great for managing dotfiles, but I like to tinker.

For self-mastery and sport.

Staying sane is both digital and analog.