Last Updated: Oct 16th, 2025
October 16th, 2025
It’s been a busy year for me since I last updated this–I had some relatively minor but annoying health issues come up that I had to deal with. But they mostly fell into the category of “things I learned about my body” and I’ve learned to take better care of myself in the process. For example, I’m still doing the diet and fitness thing, and I play Dance Dance Revolution on the weekends.
I’ve went to a number of furry conventions since then, including Midwest FurFest, Anthro New England, Anthrohio, Anthrocon, Furrydelphia, and Furry Migration. I had a great time at all of them and got to see old friends and make new friends. I’ve also been in Delaware a fair bit, attending Furst State events.
Work is going fine, I’ve been doing some backend heavy engineering and keeping busy there. I’ve also been paying close attention to AI, how it’s being used, and how it (isn’t) working out for a lot of companies, and the fact that we’re in a giant AI bubble right now.
June 21st
My PECO website got covered by Technical.ly Philly! Article here.
May 20th
My Latest Project
I recently built and deployed the website https://www.IsPecoOkay.com/ which provides current stats on ⚡the Philadelphia power grid.⚡ With the exception of chart.js, it’s all hand-written CSS and HTML in an effort to make the website be as lightweight as possible, so my iPhone battery doesn’t drain during my next power outage while frantically refreshing the outpage page. 🙂
The entire website was deployed using Serverless and various AWS services such as S3 (content), Lambda (the API and cron task to fetch data), and DynamoDB (data storage). With current traffic levels, the entire site costs me WELL under $1/mo.
What I’m Doing At Work
I’ve been building and deploying data pipelines with Vector. It’s a quite a breath of fresh air from Logstash, which I was never a huge fan of. Vector is lightweight, it’s fast, and it works very very well.
I’ve also been studying up on the Rust programming language, seeing it’s what Vector is written in, and looks like a really cool language for systems work, as well as when high performance is required. It’s definitely on track to replace C and C++. And much safer.
Upcoming Conventions
I’ll be at Anthrohio this weekend!
I’ll be Anthrocon in July.
I hope to see y’all there!
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