Category: Journal

It’s Cruz Azul vs America today. The first bout of the Liga MX final. America should win, but I really want Cruz Azul to defeat America because… “que chingue su madre el america” ;). I finally figured out the bug with the social ingestion. It was bothering me for multiple days. It ended up being…

I can’t stop thinking about vector databases. I don’t mind that as a brag. The curse of a career in software engineering is that you can’t stop thinking about work problems. I had poor sleep last night. Anyway, that’s what I’ll be working on today. I forgot to un-assign myself from a ticket that I…

Today was a bleh day. I was hoping Mitchell would be around to brainstorm, but he got sick. So I made some rough outlines of how Competitor Accounts might work. Ran into issues with vector searches for social embeddings. Those are going to be fun to debug. I think what I’ll end up doing is…

Continuing work on the fascinating world of sizes, yarns, and fibers. I think I have a design that should work now. Need to validate this with users, but we should be good. There’s still a lot of rough edges with UX. For instance, patterns that come in many sizes with many colors will result in…

Sad that the weekend ends soon. But last week was super productive. I think I leveled up on a few things. I think I’m going to buy Ghost of Tsushima today. It finally came out for PC. Looks great.

Liza asked me if she could read this journal. I guess I hadn’t considered how it might be awkward to share private thoughts online. I don’t have such reservations. I’m an open book. I would say, though, that I have a purposefully minimalist blog and I don’t post on big social media sites. The people…

Heh, I just realized I skipped a day of journaling. I think I got my days of the week confused. Happens to me all the time. Today was not one of those days because I was actually looking forward to it. We did our team celebration and we played Lethal Company. It was really, really…

It’s a meeting and team building day. I’m actually doing public speaking today. I’ll be talking about President’s Club and how to get there as an engineer. Not a lot of time to journal. I’ll stop here.

Today was annoying. Just a lot of non-stop meetings. Felt like nothing was getting done. I know that’s probably something I need to get used to, but I’m so used to being the person doing the work. The rest of the week will be like that. Lame. At least I have Friday to look forward…

I did it! I finally did it! I got the Lingua Franca achievement in Crusader Kings III. It took so much time, so many failed attempts, it was sooo hard. According to Steam, less than 0.6% of players have it. I think I’ll uninstall the game now. I don’t want to do that again. My…