Me: “Oh, I need to respond to that later.”

Text Message: cries softly as it floats into the void, never to be seen again

“They see they can and must stand up, because they begin to understand how genuinely monstrous they will become, otherwise, feeding on their resentment, transforming it into the most destructive of wishes. To say it again: There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life.” - Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

Below is the template I created for writing user stories. # User Story As a... I want... So that... # Description Lorem... # Acceptance Criteria - bullet criteria GIVEN setup WHEN action THEN result I write a lot of user stories for my team, and they need to be clear, to the point, and verifiable. This template was born out of a need for consistency in how user stories were defined and written and aims to give a development team the bare minimum they need to deliver a hot, fresh slice of valuable software.

I am the outlaw. I am the innocent. I am the sage. I am the jester. I am the everyman. I am the ruler. I am the caregiver. I am the explorer. I am the hero. I am the artist. I am the magician. I am the lover. I am the slave. I am the master. I am the giver of life. I am the wreaker of havoc. I am the one who decides.

I added a blogroll to my site! I had been thinking about creating this for a while, and the new recommendations feature in Micro.blog gave me the push to finally do it. I added it to my navigation links, but… it’s getting really crowded up there. I may have to do something about that, but I want people to be able to find my blogroll, and putting a link in any of my other pages didn’t seem quite right.

days lived more to go remember to live! Input your own numbers into the haiku above as a reminder to yourself to live! For the first box, calculate your_age_in_years * 365 For the second box, calculate your_expected_max_age_in_years * 365 - first_box_value calculator-1.com Originally I had hoped to make this much more dynamic so that you could input your current age and expected max age and I would handle all the calculating behind the scenes, but alas Javascript doth not jive with Markdown.

I’m adding a new category on my site for haiku. Most of these will be quick micro-posts, but others may be longer. I have an idea for an interactive haiku but I’m not positive how that will work since my posts are published in Markdown. It should be a fun mini-project! To my chagrin, I tend towards rule-following, so most of my haiku will follow the 5-7-5 format. I would like to experiment outside of those lines from time to time.

My website looked quite different at its beginning. I thought starting a blog would be a good opportunity to play around with new technology, so I decided to teach myself SvelteKit and build my site with it. It was very exciting: I would build in SvelteKit, write all my posts as standalone markdown files, and deploy on Vercel. As I started building and exploring what other people had done to get inspiration, I came across a concept called the IndieWeb.

A blog post is not just a piece of writing to me. It is a piece of my self, and these pieces track the process of my becoming. Sometimes I forget and I get lost, so these pieces and connections help to bring me back to who I am and who I aspired to be. - Winnie Lim, in P&B: Winnie Lim I appreciate this reframing of a blog post as a “piece of my self”.

My 7mo daughter is starting to push herself around the house backward. I’m having fun chasing her around as she unknowingly slides herself under chairs. I am gearing up to launch the NASA Cause Analysis Tool in late March. The product is looking really good! I’ll be able to share more about it when it shows up on our public-facing Mishap Investigation page. I’ve been re-organizing and adding to this site as I learn more about all the options I have with Micro.