The state of my life, in an occasionally updated nutshell. (Last updated July 24, 2024.)

Home

Amy and I continue to live with our two cats in our tiny co-op apartment in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan. This has been our home since 2021, and it suits us very well.

Work

In July 2024, I resigned from Google. I plan to return to the world of open-source projects, for now. After three years of grinding away at the cutting edge of cloud services documentation, I feel the call to help tend to the world’s slow, stable technologies instead. I am taking some time now to reset and reorient.

Amy continues to work at Columbia Law School as its new Head of Library Technology. In April 2024, she was elected to the board of the American Library Association's Core division.

Ongoing projects

I keep a personal blog at Fogknife.com, and have written hundreds of essay-length posts there over the past decade. With my salaried writing job ending, I hope to resume updating Fogknife regularly.

I co-administrate Masto.NYC, a Mastodon server for residents and businesses of the New York metropolitan area. The server is legally owned by Five Borough Fedi Project, a charitable nonprofit that I co-founded.

I'm teaching myself piano, which I never learned to play as a kid. I built an inexpensive practice setup around an iPad and a 49-key MIDI controller, and have been following the lessons in Alfred's Basic Adult Course. I don't have a practical goal here beyond personal exploration.

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