February 2026

Hi! This was a jam-packed month:

I mentioned at the end of last month that we were essentially stuck inside due to snow and ice. This continued into the beginning of this month, with another brief snowstorm happening as well.

While walking around with M and Lana, I took this photo, which was featured in The Church Hill Lookout:

M and I headed back down to North Carolina for a bit to spend time with family and, of course, see Nine Inch Nails again:



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— Joe Woods (@joewoods.dev) February 11, 2026 at 12:21 AM

Absolutely phenomenal show. We really got a treat with this one; there were a few deviations from the typical setlist that were songs I really wanted to hear live.

Also at the show, one of the Discord admins handed M a shirt; my posting about it online kicked off the Secret Shirts conversation. At time of writing, this NIN Catalog page has a photo I took on it.

I’ve been working on music a bit again; Kevin and I have been working on some tracks. I’ve really been trying to hone in on the exact patterns we’re looking for; we have one scratch track together so far, though it still has some placeholders in it. Hopefully more news to come on this in the future.

Later in the month, we rounded up some friends at a bar for an informal get-together, which was a lot of fun — I definitely want to do this more in the future.

Finally: I’ll be giving a talk on the Next.js ecosystem on March 3rd at RVA.js. Come out and join us!

music

writing

Just one blog post this month on a Tiny Cool Thing:

films

This month, I watched 2 films:

  • Wuthering Heights
  • KPop Demon Hunters

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

books

This month, I finished 7 books:

  • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, Will Staehle
  • The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
  • The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
  • Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
  • The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
  • The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman

Any guesses as to which book I’m currently reading? That’s right: This Inevitable Ruin.

I’ve definitely been looking forward to finding time to read these silly, silly books.

photography

This month, I added 259 photos that I took to my photo library. (See above for some examples!)

failbetter

This month, failbetter published:

stats

This month:

  • I typed 794,358 keys and clicked 112,628 times.
  • I listened to 1,181 songs.