Updates for March 2026

Here's what I've been working on and thinking about this month.

• I renamed the "now" series to just "updates," to catalogue what's happened each month.

• Index pages (lists of articles) contain full article content inline instead of just the title and a link to the article page.

• I added a human.json with a single entry for my old college friend.

• The 2025 Priority Gemini bicycle's shift cable disconnected and I had to commute home in a pretty low gear.

• I swapped out wallets in my Everyday carry.

I read a few fiction books at the beginning of March after getting all the way through The Lord of the Rings for the first (and probably last) time:

• Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief by T. Kingfisher

• Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell

• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

And read some articles but unlike books, I don't diligently track all of them:

• Buc-ee's Is Better at Placemaking Than Your City by Max Mautner

  This piece was uncomfortable but in the best way. The urbanist movement needs more humility and meeting people where they are.

• Good trains by Robin Sloan

  Not much to takeaway from this one but I love Robin's writing and enthusiasm.

• GitButler CLI Is Really Good by Mat Duggan

  I'm all in on Jujutsu these days but only started looking around because I detested Git's default one-line graph log ASCII art¹¹ Taste in command line tools matters a lot to me, I guess?. This looks so good that I probably wouldn't have made the switch if this was available at the time.

• The Most Dangerous Line: Behind the Hawker stall test crashes by Admiral Cloudberg

  A haunting article mixed in with detailed descriptions organizational, engineering, and human failings.

We started the month recovering from a debilitating cold. When we were on the other side of it, we took our daughter to the beach²² Where she fell over whenever the waves lapped against her legs.. As the heat wave descended, I set up a water table and sand table for her to play with in the backyard.

The garden had lost some plants over the winter, so we went to our local nursery and picked up a few flowers, shrubs, vegetables, and herbs to get things back on track. I'm pretty excited about the little vertical herb garden we're starting, currently with multiple varieties of thyme, sage, and chives.

We capped off the month with a road trip up to Sacramento to stay in Folsom and visit with family.