NRT ✈️ SFO

CTS ✈️ NRT

HND ✈️ KUH

SFO ✈️ HND

#NRT ✈️ #SFO

#SFO ✈️ #NRT

#LAX ✈️ #SFO delayed by 4 hours 😭

#SCL ✈️ #LAX

#ATL ✈️ #SCL

#SFO ✈️ #ATL

#SIN ✈️ #SFO

SFO ✈️ SIN

You know what can *actually* be the downfall of Western civilization? People who dismiss facts, disparage scientists and the journalists, side with aspiring dictators, disseminate batshit-crazy conspiracy theories, and buy themselves a medium to amplify them.

My whole engineering career feels like the same problems over and over - team dysfunction poorly solved with code - caching - distributed transactions - modeling data so it’s just right - data pipelines/transformations - factoring systems so they’re flexible but not too flexible - eventual consistency - observability - feature flags - architecture astronauts I’m tired

wut

My bid to see my second totality was almost a complete disaster. Thick clouds blocked what felt like 99% of the duration. I got a bit lucky with a fixed camera aimed at the sun, so it wasn’t a complete loss.