2026-04-09
What a nice day. It's Thursday, and the weather is great, and it's neither hot nor cold for me, neither too gloomy nor too bright, and the amount of things happening in the day is manageable.
I've been struggling with maintaining the social circle I'm part of lately. The obvious excuse that immediately comes to mind is that the work has been challenging lately, as has the housekeeping and holding people closest to me together, and this is true in a sense that a lot of social connections I've had have deteriorated over me not being available, time-wise or emotionally, due to crapload of work that I have been stupid enough to accept as my own problem, even if it's been clear (on most of the occasions!) that it's essentially incompetence finding its way to someone that is least informed and at times least protective of their boundaries. So that's me, but I'm far from being unique. I've seen others succumb to the same shit over the same stupid reasons, it breaks my heart, but so is life: bullies will bully in order to come out of a bad situation as a winner. Stats are in favor of assholes, recently even more so. I'm sincerely happy that I have been able to live a moderately long and happy life regardless. What the future holds, I don't know.
I did, however, make time to meet a friend a few weeks back. He's talking to a company, again, that we used to work at together. It was kind of a long story, when he was considering leaving, choosing to stay, until ultimately leaving for good to join a smaller shop. The small shop busted, in a way, so he joined another small shop. This one is funny, because there's a few dozen software engineers that only use Claude Code to produce, debug, and review code, and most use Claude Code to communicate in text. Like, post without even reading. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't, and each time it's in stark contrast with the actual level of knowledge and maturity that these engineers display (quite poor). Anyways, my friend is in an interview process, which is its own flavor of insanity, so who knows how it all turns out.
All I wish for the next few weeks is a good weather and as much sunlight as March can possibly provide. I've been missing it so much.
Being back from a short time off also feels good, especially considering a few small wins I was able to gain.
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