January
- Steroids in my back that helped a lot
- Was right about a backend issue at work but didn't know enough to make my case
February
- Discussed an API rewrite that went nowhere
- Started Learning Golang in earnest
March
- First Month of WFH
- Lots of drinking at home, virtual get togethers
April
- Started interviewing with Google
- Got our Rottweiler Bowie!
May
- No idea what I was doing during this time, total brain fog. I think it had to do with drinking and raising and incredibly high maintenance puppy.
June
- Same, I essentially no memory of what I did in June. Tried to get some contract work but really struggled to snag a contract.
- Had some final interviews with Google.
July
- Brutal rejection by Google, got to last phase for an L4 role in LA, team wanted me but hiring committee rejected. Would have been >2x what I currently make. Still a bit bitter about it.
August
- The first month of sobriety from alcohol was hard. Also Texas is brutally hot, it is really hard to exercise when its 110 degrees out.
September
- Devoted a lot of work to understanding our logistics at Meshify. Became acutely aware of what brought some legacy systems into existence and the dependencies involved.
October
- Worked on preparing a proposal to make our logistics involve less friction and less speculatively general approaches that lock us into a poor security model.
November
- Created a proposal to phase out our legacy system while also doing our work to deploy two greenfield apps to our users.
December
- Worked on finalising proposal, assisted in some ops work.
- Built out some golang work to cement my understanding of how our backend REST service works.