How Is It December Already?
Hello.
I’m not even going to apologize this time, and will instead point to the fact that I’ve always billed this newsletter as infrequent, meaning this is all extremely on-brand.
As is usually the case, I’ll start with my blog posts:
- Just a Camera talks about my wanting to be more intentional with photography, something I haven’t done even a little since then.
- See You at North Bay Python 2023 is an invite to hang out at North Bay Python 2023, which has now passed, so let’s hang out at North Bay Python 2024 instead!
- Colophon: July 2023 Edition is a somewhat in-depth look at how my personal site is set up. Naturally, almost immediately after publishing it I’ve started making plans for how I want to change things up.
- North Bay Python 2023: The Afterfeels is a report from the conference and trip to and from it. It’s got pictures!
- Hire Me! (v.2023.08) is an announcement of my availability for hire, which is still true. Hit me up.
- Favorite Command Line Tools tries to document some awesome command line tools I use. Two months later it’s still mostly up to date.
- Masking Is Inclusivity shares my perspective on masking, specifically in relation to professional events such as conferences.
- Muscle Memory Is Wild tells an epic tale (not really) of my remembering a shortcut.
- TIL About shlex.split is a hot tip about a cool built-in Python module.
- Nik’s Issue Tracker is somewhat of a project brief for something I’m building.
- Adafruit Circuit Playground Express as an “On Air” Light is a companion piece to a talk I gave (aka streamed virtually) at PyOhio 2023.
Professional update: as already mentioned above, I found myself on the job market after extremely unexpected layoffs. I’ve been looking for the right fit since, and am currently still open to opportunities.
Personally, things have been tough. Between Katie’s health, my career related stress, Artemis’ health, the state of the world, and a myriad other things, 2023 has been a challenging year.
This was perhaps a downer of a newsletter, but sometimes life isn’t all rosy. 😬
Thanks for reading!
—Nik
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