life-updates-2024.txt (1936B) [raw]
1 # Life Updates 2024 2 3 _Published: October 27, 2024_ 4 5 Another year gone by since I last wrote here (although the 6 [phlog](gopher://alexkarle.com) saw some love for you gopher fans out 7 there). And what a year it has been! 8 9 ## Hobbies 10 11 Since my [last update](life-updates-2023.html), the trend of taking on 12 non-tech hobbies has stayed. In fact, for the past few months, one might 13 say I haven't had time for hobbies at all... why, you ask? 14 15 ## Life and Love 16 17 In July, Jennie and I welcomed our first child, our beautiful boy Wesley 18 <3. Parenting has been the hardest and most rewarding thing I've ever 19 taken on, and we've just begun! Words can't describe the rollercoaster 20 of emotions that have become my daily life, but I can say that I have so 21 much newfound respect for parents and Moms in particular. And that 22 Jennie is truly a superhero <3 23 24 I don't plan to blog much about it, as it feels too personal to 25 broadcast to the public. Likewise, I don't feel qualified enough to give 26 any parenting advice. Instead I'll stay on-brand and give some technical 27 advice for software-engineers-soon-to-become-parents :) 28 29 _Always Leave a Note!_ 30 31 Yes thats right! For the nerds like me who are constantly chasing new 32 technical rabbit holes and learning obscure software, its easy to think 33 that you'll forever remember the `cryptsetup(8)` command to mount your 34 homemade NAS' LVM-on-LUKS encrypted drive. Or that you'll know how to 35 connect that Plan 9 install to wifi (you've been doing it every day for 36 weeks!). 37 38 But alas, when the baby comes and these sit idle for months or more, 39 those chops do fade. So do yourself a favor. Leave yourself a note! 40 41 ## Looking Forward 42 43 I won't fool myself like last year with a prediction of more blog 44 activity :) I expect it'll stay relatively quiet over here. But there is 45 oh so much to look forward to: first words, family time over the 46 holidays, rolling, crawling, walking! Life has just begun, and its 47 beautiful.