Because my ex-employer pays for a “platinum plan” health insurance policy, with family premiums of like $6000 per month, when I had a routine medical procedure last week, my out of pocket expense was “only” about $2000.

‘Murica. Shit yeah.

I’ve been using Just for a while as a task runner. It’s similar to Make, but optimized for developer ergonomics with a vastly simpler syntax and a wonderful CLI. I’d also been using Mise for other environment management things, such as installing specific versions of Python and NPM and other tools in a project directory.

Someone introduced me to Mise’s own newish task runner, and it just might win me over from Just for most things:

  1. Instead of using 2 tools, I can use 1.
  2. Just still feels nicer to me, perhaps because I’m more used to it, but Mise is good enough that I don’t think I’d miss the extra features.
  3. Mise lets you write tasks in separate files, which lets any editor handle them well without having to support justfile syntax, but still shares a CLI with inline tasks.

I like it.

I had a patch embroidered for my wife, a foot doctor.

A brown patch on a Timbuk2 bag. It says “I can get you a toe”.

Today I’m trekking the 1.5 mi walking part of my commute with 20 lbs of iron in my backpack. I’m reasonably confident in my ability to get it there with me intact. I’m less confident of my power to schlep it back home tonight.

Waking up to KMFDM blasting in the bedroom, a very surprised looking cat, and the HomePod she just accidentally coaxed into life by sniffing the top of it.

When an email’s footer starts with “The content of this email is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed only”, the desire to turn it into a blog post is almost irresistible.

I’m super excited to be joining a small company next week as their first dedicated security engineer. After being at much larger companies for a little while, I’m ready to be back in the trenches.

What a job search looks like in 2025: 4 weeks, 27 interviews, with 20 different recruiters and employees of 21 different companies.

This is the one day a year I immerse myself in Apple news. A buddy and I have a decade long tradition of watching the WWDC keynote together. Then I’ll go back to mostly ignoring the hype for another 364 days.

We worked to lose a nice bit of weight over the last 6 months or so. Today I hit the treadmill carrying a backpack loaded with the same amount of weight I’d lost. Holy cow. How did I do that every single day?

The new Apple News daily Sudoku results page is sloppy. As screenshotted on an iPhone 15 Pro, you have to scroll down about 1/8” to see the whole Leaderboard button.

I will not lose sleep over this, but it’s still sloppy.

Screenshot of the page you see when you finish an Apple News Sudoku puzzle. It looks mostly correct, but a button near the bottom is cropped unexpectedly. There’s a huge amount of open, grey space at the top of the page.

The same page scrolled down a couple dozen pixels. Now the whole button is visible. The empty grey space at the top is still huge and not noticeably smaller. The page could easily look like this without scrolling but no one bothered with it.