Current tidings - January

A "Tree of Life" wooden jigsaw I had the pleasure of solving, courtesy of my cousin. Thanks, cousin! 😊

Happy new year! And Merry Christmas, for those of you still celebrating about a month later! 😁

The holidays at the end of last year afforded me plenty of time to wind down after half a month of full time work. It was a very blessed time visiting my extended family and helping prepare a variety of holiday dishes, like banitsa-s, medovinki (gingerbread), stuffed dried peppers with beans, salads, more salads, and the traditional pogacha (baked bread) with a fortune or lucky coin hidden inside. Best part—cooking together with grandma has reinvigorated my love for cooking ever since! ✨

...yet, now that holidays are over, I'm back to full-time work, and re-starting it has been about as bad as starting full-time work was last month.

Life

I am honestly lacking sleep. So far, I haven't dropped anything important, but, juggling this many plates is a sure way to drop all of them at once—I gotta slow down!

Hopefully I'll get better by next month.

Programming

Lately, my programming time has looked a lot more like DevOps time; with me learning OpenTofu/Terragrunt/ArgoCD/Istio, deploying odd Git+SSH-based CI/CD for a website, dealing with Gentoo updates, and the like.
Yet, last week I got back to writing Rust and Go code and doing some pretty nifty protocol design, which I hope I might get to blog about!

Books

During September, I read through the whole of Jane Eyre, to see how it differs from the movies. It differed a lot!

During December, I had the joy of listening to Debbie Coll and Rebekah O'Donnovan's co-written first-draft-audiobook/podcast hybrid, Ballads of Beyond (through AntennaPod ✨). The Cavern at the Edge of Time was a blast, and it brought many smiles while getting to work in the bleak December mornings. Hyped for season two! 😊
Now, on to convincing them to move to the Fediverse instead of being stuck on Instagram 😂

Writing

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Current projects

• Work at STACKIT — an European B2B cloud provider.
• Programming with Bojidar - My tiny JavaScript programming course serving Bulgarian students weekly.
• 100 75 50 Days To Offload — a blogging challenge. 🥲
• Website maintenance - On-and-off maintaining a few Linux boxes for my programming course, for the Bulgarian Homeschooling Association (We got a new website out!! 🎉), and for a group of friends.
• Slides and worship at church — having a blast playing the piano, even if it means getting up early on Sunday.

Backlog:

• Xee - an XSLT toolkit written in Rust.
• Project: World - A custom for-fun hobby programming language, with hopes of compiling to WASM (GC)!
• College at TESU. Halfway there, waiting on everything else getting into a calm rhythm before continuing.

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