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That’s another month in the books. I spent a little over week this month traveling, visiting both North Carolina and Florida for my Thanksgiving break. It was unseasonably warm in Florida, so I was able to float in the pool for a while in between reading and getting some stuff done.
Like I mentioned last month, the makebetter.email email interoperability summit extended into this month — it was a great time, and I learned a lot.
I also attended BarCamp Philly this year, where I gave a talk on the engineering principles at Fastmail. It was great to get to know and learn from folks!
I worked on some projects that I learned from, but ultimately didn’t achieve the goals that I set out to achieve:
- I wrote some code to take algorithmic trading strategies and validate them against historical data. Turns out I should not try to use these strategies!
- I made a job board for tech jobs that don’t require a degree or experience in the field, but the amount of time it took to research those jobs made it not quite worth the effort.
But, again, that’s okay — it’s great to just hack on things, even if they don’t pan out.
Also, I played a ton of Football Manager.
music
This month’s new music playlist is absurdly short:
To make up for it, I hope you’ll check out my Spotify Wrapped playlist, too: https://blog.joewoods.dev/music/spotify-wrapped-2023/
films
I watched six films this month:
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum ★★★½☆
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (rewatch) (no rating)
- The Social Network (rewatch) ★★★★☆
- BlackBerry ★★★½☆
- Genie (no rating)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ★★★★½☆
Have I mentioned that I love Letterboxd? You can follow me there.
books
I’m still reading Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Fate, the 16th and final book in The Realm of the Elderlings.
failbetter
This month, failbetter published:
- "Chord Variations" Bill Gaythwaite
- "Treatment Plan" by Alysha Black
stats
This month:
- I typed 574,000 keys and clicked 84,262 times.
- I listened to 1,103 songs.
