It's alive! Namely this website and a few other services that I managed to get running on my home server. It might not be highly available, reliable or scalable, but I own the infrastructure and I think that's pretty cool.

https://www.cbf.org/resources/oyster-fact-sheet/

I was playing MapTap and learned about the Chesapeake bay and the horrific impact the oyster industry had on it. At least there are folks working on restoring it. I might make a donation.

I’ve been thinking about community a lot recently. The general lack of it and how I crave it. I know it’s not just me. 

Friends don’t reach out very often. It’s hard to plan things. One of my old colleagues used to make sure we all got together outside of work at least once a month. That was pretty good. I work from home now coworkers are hundreds of miles away. I’d like to start going to a local meetup I think.

Once in a while I remember that the individuals that lead the major world powers control and threaten each other with weapons capable of destroying everything in an instant. Weapons that could level entire cities, spread cancer causing radiation, and trigger a catastrophic change in climate that would make it impossible for humanity to survive. Then I get back to work.

I do this thing where I use a thing for years and then forget the name of that thing. This is one of those things.

const foo = "Template literals"
const biz = "cool"
`${foo} are ${biz}`

> Template literals are cool