This is unspeakable: Russia is bombing Ukraine. I'm Russian-American, and most of my family remains in Russia. I love Ukraine with all my heart, and most of my friends are Ukrainian.

Effective immediately, I'm protected by the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 👴🏻

2021 was a very long year. In part because we didn't get to decompress after 2020, in part because a lot of 2020 stayed with us through the entire 2021, and in part because of a bunch of personal stuff that happened.

It's funny how I spend a lot of my free time on tweaking this website, improving this or that, adding a random feature, or falling down a rabbit hole of some technology I may eventually want to use here. Yet its main purpose - it's a blog, damn it! - happens to be mostly neglected.

I wanted to attend CascadiaJS for a few years and it finally happened. I've got a few takeaways I want to share with you here.

At the bottom of this page you can find the latest song I've listened to on Apple Music. Here's how I made it works.