Curious to see what you all are up to and/or looking forward to over the next year?
(cc @senocular, @krilnon, @tbo, @travis, @steve.mills, @TheCanadian 
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I truly wish more vanilla and less weight to everybody.
And a great 2025 to you all!
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I feel like it is a losing battle. Nobody seems to care too much about a few hundred extra KBs here and there.
Which is a shame. Weird enough, they probably are in the front row of who want to fight climate change.
Strange world.
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I’ve been on parental leave for a few weeks, and I spent way less time on my computer than I expected too. Frankly, in the new year I hope to continue that trend, spending time with the family, being grounded in the real world has been a welcome change.
I’m hoping to write a book, I have several ideas and manuscripts on the go but I made a resolution to finish one!
We may finally make good on our goal of keeping bees, there is a lot to learn but it should be a fun project.
From a work perspective, I’m likely going to be doing a lot more Ruby and TypeScript. Hoping to keep my finger on Elixir in my personal projects but I think getting some production Ruby and TS experience will be good on the resume. What are you doing @kirupa
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Last year I rode a few hours in driverless cars; a wholesome part of it was that the system refers to me by my internet handle when I get onboard rather than Firstname Lastname.
I don’t know what new things in 2025 will be like that, but more where you can see how we got there (technology-wise) and you also appreciate it would be nice.
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I did just a few rides in Waymo when I was in SF for work, and that was a really magical experience. Being driven from the backseat without a driver was quite something 
Same old same old…
On the work front, I’ve been fully immersed in the AI-assistive development space. I was the founding member of the IDX team (and wrote the initial proposal for getting this started!) where we blend AI-assistance deeper into professional development workflows:
On the life front, my daughter is growing up too fast haha. We’ve been taking a lot of family vacations and just making the most of the time available before she is off to college in about 11 years! 
