If we're recalling all the fun places we've been recently, my tales are pretty boring. In the professional world, I've bounced between a few tech companies in the Raleigh-Durham area over the last few years, most recently settling in at Red Hat where I'm building cloud server monitoring software. On the personal side, my wife and I have just been living a low-key quiet life, occasionally taking short trips out of town but more often hitting the local library and going for walks in various nearby parks. Thrilling!!!
I'm also still a full-time Apple user (even Red Hat gives developers the option of choosing a MacBook for the job!), and every bit of my day-to-day computing activities are done on Apple devices. Although I check the news and occasionally peek at MacRumors headlines, I am far away from touching the bleeding edge of Apple tech. At home I'm still rockin' an eight-year-old Hackintosh, a 2015 MBP (which I pray never dies), and an iPhone 6S. No watch. No tv. No… uh… speaker thing?
I recently had to replace my engine mounts, and I realized that I've been driving the same car for literally half of my life. On one hand, jeeeeesus I'm boring. On the other hand, I have this strange pride of keeping my car alive and seeing it outlast so many other things that have passed me by.
Social media. Social media never changes. I have token accounts in a few places for lurking, but I never post. I've yet to find a place with a community that felt as honest and meaningful as this one did fifteen years ago. AppleNova may be the one holdout to prove that some old communities never die; they just fade away. At least until one day I forget to update my credit card and the hosting service lapses!
Is Minecraft still a thing for anyone? It's still fun to jump on turtle's server from time to time, wander around a bit, maybe dig a hole and build a thing. Since we're all in the reunion spirit, perhaps we should put an old fashioned new-world runaround on the calendar some time.
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