changelog

read

• 2666 by roberto bolaño
• ['what do commercials about ai really promise'](https://www.new yorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/what-do-commercials-about-ai-really-promise) by vinson cunningham
  • 'The implicit idea of commercials like this one is that by spending less energy on thinking, you’ll get more time to act. But in what way? That part seldom comes up.'

watched

listened

worked on

read

• 2666 by roberto bolaño
  • about 200 pages during a brief trip home, and it's just as good if not slightly better than i remembered
• the answers by catherine lacey
• paul celan and the trans-tibetan angel by yoko tawada
• 'an experience for me' by alexandra tanner

watched

• drop (2025)
• thief (1981)
• beau is afraid (2023)
• the bear (2022-2025)
• the rehearsal (2022)

listened -- 202506 - listening

• pruning of the lower limbs by moving mountains
• virgin by lorde
• nothing feels good by the promise ring
• die in love by greet death
• cendre by fennesz & sakamoto

worked on

• redacted
• updates to monorepo
• learned dexie.js
• spotify metrics site

read

• mother river by can xue
• fake accounts by lauren oyler
• paul celan and the trans-tibetan angel by yoko tawada

watched

• star wars: episode vii - the force awakens (2015)
• rogue one: a star wars story (2016)
• star wars: episode viii - the last jedi (2017)
• star wars: episode ix - the rise of skywalker (2019)
• andor (2025)
• hacks (2021)
• the rehearsal (2022)

listened -- 202505 - listening

• hunting season by home is where
• nothing feels good by the promise ring
• takeoffs and landings by rilo kiley
• if you asked for a picture by blondshell
• caroline 2 by caroline

worked on

• [redacted]
• updates to monorepo

read

• 'critical naval-gazing' by namwali serpell
• atypography
• 'jsx over the wire' by dan abramov
  • i'm already convinced of the react server thing. i'm less convinced about what's proffered as backend-for-frontend here. still a really good read
• the vaster wilds by lauren groff
• several people are typing by calvin kasulke
  • a worthwhile read for anyone that's worked at an agency
• mother river by can xue

watched

• the pitt (2025)
• white lotus (2021)
• hacks (2021)
• the rehearsal (2022)
• the studio (2025)
• psycho goreman(2020)
• the people's joker (2022)

listened -- 202504 - listening

• welcome to my blue sky by momma
• what it takes to move forward by empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate)

worked on

• high level architecture and infra for react-native project
• updates to monorepo, including running multiple services simultaneously for local dev

read

• memorandum from the iowa cloud appreciation society by joseph g. peterson
• the vaster wilds by lauren groff

watched

• severance (2022-2024)
• the pitt (2025)
• white lotus (2021)
• nickel boys (2025)
• face off (1997)
• party girl (1995)
• companion (2025)

listened -- 202503 - listening

• romantic piano by gia margaret
• luminescent creatures by ichiko aoba
• forever is a feeling by lucy dacus
• dead channel sky by clipping.
• patience, moonbeam by great grandpa
• lonely people with power by deafheaven

worked on

• i18n system for web, react native, and apis at limber, including translation management and workflows

read

• 'lessons for the end of the world' by hanif abdurraqib
  • 'a historical footnote to consider only when all else fails' by nikki giovanni
• the physics of sorrow by georgi gospodinov
• memorandum from the iowa cloud appreciation society by joseph g. peterson

watched

• severance (2022-2024)
• the pitt (2025)
• a different man (2024)
• anora (2024)
• a real pain (2024)
• triangle of sadness (2022)
• nosferatu (2024)

listened -- 202502 - listening

• manning fireworks by m.j. lenderman
• amplitudes by tapes and topographies
• vespertine by this will destroy you

worked on

• i18n system for web, react native, and apis at limber, including translation management and workflows
• minor website updates and dep bumps

read

• our wives under the sea by julia armfield
• 'the shapes of grief' by christina sharpe
• the MANIAC by benjamin labatut
• the trees by percival everett

watched

• severance (2022-2024)
• the listeners (2024)
• heretic (2024)

listened -- 202501 - listening

• salaryman simulator by mitch murder
• perverts by ethel cain
• selected ambient works volume ii by aphex twin
• hereditary: original motion picture soundtrack by colin stetson

worked on

• web apps vs. native apps

read

• the last samurai by helen dewitt
• the autobiography of x by catherine lacey
• tremor by teju cole
• our wives under the sea by julia armfield

watched

• greedy people (2024)
• speak no evil (2024)
• station 11 (2021-2022)
• conclave (2024)
• desk set (1957)
  • everything we ever needed to say about ai and its relevance to labor was in this phoebe and henry ephron script

listened -- 202412 - listening

• end of the nail by gleemer
• never hung over again by joyce manor
• queer: original sound track by trent reznor and atticus ross
• sorcery by dj sabrina the teenage dj
• triple seven by wishy

worked on

• website redesign/rebuild
  • switched to app router
  • updated to react 19 & next 15
  • general refresh
• typed useReducer
  • spent a long time thinking about this, trying to get the api/dx just right
• updates to mdx-relations
  • reimplementation of library in typescript for better inference
  • active dogfooding on the site