March 2026

Hi!

The weather’s turning warmer, sports are happening, and we’re in the time where daylight has been saved. I hope you’re well, and that you’re having fun doing what you’re doing.

It’s been a pretty busy month!

Near the beginning of the month, I gave a presentation at the RVA.js meetup: build cool stuff fast with Next.js:

Me, in front of a crowd, gesturing up at a projector
Thanks to Gareth for taking this photo.

Meetup presentations are always rewarding, but always take up way more of my time in prep work than I think they’re going to.

Chasen was in town from Philly, so it was great to meet up with him and meet his dog Baxter.

The men turned thirteen this month, which is astonishing to me.

My team and I won the “moonshot award” at the Hack for RVA hackathon; we built RideShift RVA, a tool to encourage folks to take fewer single-passenger car trips by rewarding them with perks they can redeem with local businesses.

The hackathon team all in front of laptops. Daniel, the man on the left, gives two thumbs up. My laptop is open, facing the camera.

music

I only went to one show this month — my friend Dan Young and Jasyn Brazoban at Révéler.

Also, I’m buying a seven-string guitar off of John. 🙂

writing

Only one blog post this month, since search engines still seem to not really have picked up this concept:

films

This month, I watched a single film:

Have I mentioned that I love Letterboxd? You can follow me there.

books

This month, I read four books:

  • This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
  • Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
  • Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
  • The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (re-read)

Regarding the Dungeon Crawler Carl series: I’m honestly a little sad to be caught up. These are so silly and so fun.

I’m re-reading The Kingkiller Chronicle for the eighth (?) time. But even this time, I’ve noticed some things that are going to lead me to need to update my research on every hint about what might happen in book three.

photography

This month, I added 385 photos that I took to my photo library.

(This number is a little inflated; I’ve been importing both RAW files and jpegs with the delicious Ricoh greyscale baked in.)

Lana the dog stands on a short wall, looking at the camera with one paw raised. M has one hand on the dog, with her back turned to the camera. The James river lurks in the background.
A figure on the basketball courts looks down at a small child, partially obscured by fog.

failbetter

This month, failbetter published:

stats

This month:

  • I typed 883,162 keys and clicked 142,305 times.
  • I listened to 1,246 songs.