12/8/20

i'm thankful to have been struck, as d talked to hy about nachos, with a vivid memory of coming home from a long sweaty summer run to our first apartment in bloomington and sitting on the nasty gray carpet without a shirt on and eating an entire bag of tortilla chips with a jar of salsa

i'm thankful that at the end of the day today i was able to resolve a confusing problem with an API endpoint i wrote, thanks to another engineer who took time and realized the reason our chrome extension's requests to the endpoint weren't being authenticated despite the proper cookies and authentication token is that the referer header wasn't set and i'm thankful i figured out how to use a chrome API to set the referer header and then this thing, which has been this unresolved tension in the back of my work brain for months, is gone, all my requests go through with green lights, and i'll write an official fix for it tomorrow

i'm thankful to have finally tried the trader joe's peanut butter pretzels recently and found that i did not like them as much as i had expected to because they weren't sweet enough for my white bread soul so what i did at lunch today was fill a small ramekin with strawberry preserves and then dip the nugs into it and i'm also thankful for the fuji apple i had as a side

i'm thankful that though the USB c port on my LG monitor is semi-broken (charging passthrough works but for some reason display is incredibly fussy), d isn't using her external monitor now and found it in the attic for me and the screen is much bigger than my current one and all the extra real estate feels expansive

i'm thankful that though usually i have two 1:1 meetings on thursday, tomorrow i don't have any

i'm thankful for this stunning piece of writing (