A little over a year ago I decided that preventing food waste felt more important than maintaining my personal veganism. Sometimes, most of the time, one can give away leftovers, but there comes a point when time becomes the precious resource. I also think that when folks throw parties and have special vegan food for the vegans, the best case for all means everyone eats the vegan food, not just the vegans. A past or future me will disagree. Let us see how long I keep this rationalization.

Not everything has taken a step backwards. Especially in 2016, I made several leaps in reducing what I call my blobberies. Mainly, I deleted several "social" media accounts, most of which I had not used in a while. Then I replaced them with some gnusocial accounts.

As a developer, in 2015 I started working on some JavaScript-based projects for work. Given the hype, I attempted to build them entirely client side, but soon found the complexity increased greater than the simplicity gained on the server side. I do not actually dislike JavaScript per se, but the fact it has different implementations among the browsers makes it difficult in some cases to program reliably. I have tried some libraries, though I dislike the resulting code from the various non-standards. All this to prevent that "flash" that happens when a page reloads.

My last project at work I managed to develop the entirity without an IDE, instead using on Emacs. I mainly did this because the systems I had to log onto prevented me from downloading everything I needed at once. Even when using Emacs, I had to constantly deleted and redownload parts of my project. I did that for a year.

I talked to one of my cousins a few months ago about family history. I have some large personal projects related to family stories, both non-fiction and fiction. I find it more difficult to focus long enough to work on these. Though, perhaps I should set small goals. Once every morning, drink a glass of water, press-ups, sit-ups, and 10 minutes of writing.

I want to find a way to get involved with software against global heating or asteroid redirection.