Had a second kid! Took time off for paternity leave. For the first time since 2016 I didn’t change jobs in September. We didn’t move this year and are happily settling (back) into our life here in Durham, NC.

Shipped some software — I updated my personal website, shipped a macOS Catalina compatibility update for Later and helped build the new App Home surface for Slack. Got interested in gRPC, microservices, and Kubernetes. Remained interested in Swift.

Drank a lot of hazy IPAs.

The rest of my 2019 highlights:¹

Books

• Blackfish City: A Novel by Sam J Miller -- Incredible world building, a little unevenly paced.

Music

• The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
• The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
• Big Thief - U.F.O.F
• Bon Iver - i,i
• LCD Soundsystem - Electric Lady Sessions
• The New Pornographers - In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
• Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung

Apps (iOS)

• Weather Line

Apps (macOS)

• Pastebot
• Visual Studio Code

Games

• Baba Is You
• Outer Wilds -- An absolute masterpiece. One of the best games of the decade.
• Super Mario Maker 2

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