You know all those supposedly &quot;good&quot; password rules? Well, they tend not to be so good.
<h2 id="in-depth">In Depth</h2>
&lt;InDepthNotes
 source=&quot;Christopher Mims&quot;
 title=&quot;Annoying Password Rules Actually Make Us Less Secure&quot;
 url=&quot;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/annoying-password-rules-actually-make-us-less-secure-a05edb70&quot;">https://www.wsj.com/articles/annoying-password-rules-actually-make-us-less-secure-a05edb70&quot;</a>
<blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre><code>So many of the rules that sites and companies use annoy the living bejeezus out of me. There&#39;s no reason I shouldn&#39;t be able to have a long password with special characters in it...and please let me use a password manager.
</code></pre>
</InDepthNotes>

<h2 id="link-blast">Link Blast</h2>
<h3 id="👨🏼💻-software-development--design">👨🏼‍💻 Software Development &amp; Design</h3>
<a href="https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2023/03/24/search-element.html">The Search Element</a> Scott O&#39;Hara
<a href="https://johnnyreilly.com/lighthouse-meet-github-actions">Lighthouse meet GitHub Actions</a> John Reilly
<a href="https://blog.ploeh.dk/2023/03/20/on-trust-in-software-development/">On trust in software development</a> Mark Seemann
<a href="https://raygun.com/blog/react-debugging-guide/">The 2023 guide to React debugging</a> Anna Monus
<a href="https://javascript.plainenglish.io/clean-code-in-typescript-a183d43f3bf0">Clean Code in TypeScript</a> Kyle Le
<a href="https://web.dev/6-css-snippets-every-front-end-developer-should-know-in-2023/">6 CSS snippets every front-end developer should know in 2023</a> Adam Argyle
<a href="https://damienbod.com/2023/03/20/a-first-look-at-blazor-and-net-8/">A first look at Blazor and .NET 8</a> Damien Bowden
<h3 id="🖥-technology--the-internet">🖥 Technology &amp; the Internet</h3>
<a href="https://clivethompson.medium.com/maybe-zoom-parties-werent-so-bad-e5e57e1c869c">Maybe Zoom Parties Weren&#39;t So Bad</a> Clive Thompson
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/20/fcc-staffers-routinely-held-stock-in-telecom-giants-they-regulated/">FCC Staffers Routinely Held Stock In Telecom Giants They Regulated</a> Karl Bode
<a href="https://www.bitestring.com/posts/2023-03-19-web-fingerprinting-is-worse-than-I-thought.html">Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought</a> bitestring.com
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/antisemitism-on-twitter-has-more-than-doubled-since-elon-musk-took-over/">Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over</a> Carl Miller
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/21/appeals-court-says-nope-to-florida-governors-stop-woke-law-denies-request-to-lift-injunction-against-it/">Appeals Court Says Nope To Florida Governor&#39;s &#39;Stop Woke&#39; Law, Denies Request To Lift Injunction Against It</a> Tim Cushing
<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-ai-investing-in-trustworthy-ai/">Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI</a> Mark Surman
<h3 id="🎮-gaming">🎮 Gaming</h3>
<a href="https://www.counter-strike.net/cs2">Introducing Counter-Strike 2</a> counter-strike.net
<h3 id="📈-business--finance">📈 Business &amp; Finance</h3>
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-plum-job-listing-may-just-be-a-ghost-3aafc794">Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake</a> Te—Ping Chen
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/22/book-publishers-wont-stop-until-libraries-are-dead/">Book Publishers Won&#39;t Stop Until Libraries Are Dead</a> Mike Masnick
<h3 id="🔬-science">🔬 Science</h3>
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/relativity-space-has-a-successful-failure-with-the-debut-of-terran-1/">Relativity Space has a successful failure with the debut of Terran 1</a> Eric Berger
<h3 id="🎧-podcasts">🎧 Podcasts</h3>
<a href="https://mebfaber.com/2021/08/04/e337-richard-thaler/">The Meb Faber Show #337: Professor Richard Thaler</a>
<a href="https://www.jordanharbinger.com/sam-harris-rationally-confronting-the-irrational/">The Jordan Harbinger Show #698: Sam Harris | Rationally Confronting the Irrational</a>
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164979588/svb-collapse-bailout-startup-founder">Planet Money #1624: Inside a Bank Run</a>
<a href="https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-496-michael-pollan">Longform Podcast #496: Michael Pollan</a>
<a href="https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-68-blitz-human-resources/">Hardcore History #68: Human Resources</a>
<a href="https://theathletic.com/podcast/278-luck/">The Athletic: Luck</a>
<h3 id="🎒-everything-else">🎒 Everything Else</h3>
<a href="https://chasem.co/2023/03/weblogs-as-a-form/">How blogs shaped the web</a> Chase McCoy
<h3 id="🎵-a-song-to-leave-you-with">🎵 A Song to Leave You With</h3>
<h4 id="the-menzingers---bad-actors">The Menzingers - Bad Actors</h4>
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You know all those supposedly &quot;good&quot; password rules? Well, they tend not to be so good.

Reading Log - March 24 (#23)

I&#39;ve been hearing a lot of good things about Blazor for a while now and as a .NET developer I figured it was time for me to see what the fuss was about.
This post will be the first in a multi-part series.
To get started, I went through <a href="https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/aspnet/blazor-tutorial/intro">Microsoft&#39;s tutorials</a>. Playing around with it, my first thought was this felt kind of similar to my time years ago working with ASP.NET MVC sites. It was different, and it looked different in a good way, but the little bit of familiarity was definitely beneficial as it gave me a good jumping off point.
After going through the tutorials, I realized I needed something to build. The best way I&#39;ve found for myself to learn new languages and tools is to build something. Tutorials only go so far. The project I decided to build is an app to inventory my baseball and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Customizable_Card_Game">Star Wars Customizable Card Game</a> cards. I recently found a bunch of cards from when I was a kid, so I figured it&#39;d be a fun way to learn a new framework.
The first thing I did was to figure out the technology I was going to use. To make things simple, I was just going to stick with Microsoft technologies for the core of the app. I was going to store the data with Entity Framework and use Microsoft Identity for user authentication. I&#39;m not sure I really need user authentication for a little side project, but figured “why not?”.
I&#39;ll go into more details in later posts, but suffice it to say, it was both familiar and alien at the same time. The libraries used have been the same ones I&#39;ve used in both Digital Family Cookbook and my fitness tracker which helped smooth out the differences in usage. But the ways I needed to use them posed some challenges and made my learning curve a tad bit steeper.
I&#39;ve also decided to use Tailwind to help with the styling for this project. This is one of the things I kind of miss from working with React, TypeScript &amp; Vite. The build system made it pretty easy to adjust to changes. I&#39;m currently having some issues in bundling my CSS. Part of this is because I&#39;m trying to trim down the Tailwind bundle size by limiting what Tailwind classes are included. I&#39;m sure there&#39;s a way to make this easier, but I often find myself having to manually run a <code>yarn</code> command to build the latest CSS based on the classes included. This is probably a little more on me though as I probably need to familiarize myself with some of the internal tooling.
I&#39;ve been making a lot of progress over the last few weeks. So much so that I&#39;m actually a little surprised at how easy it is to build things. In my case it helps that I&#39;m familiar with .NET, but I think that bodes well for Blazor. The easier it is to get a minimal viable product (MVP) out the door, the better.
I&#39;m excited by how nice it is to work in Blazor and am hoping by sharing my experiences starting up, I can help others get off the ground.

Digging Into Blazor - First Impressions

Two months in and the year has been going relatively well. Bummed the Eagles couldn&#39;t pull off a Super Bowl win, but no complaints otherwise.
<h2 id="sad-super-bowl">Sad Super Bowl</h2>
I knew facing Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs was going to be difficult, but the Eagles defense played an awful game and in the end, they couldn&#39;t maintain their lead. It was certainly a bummer, but alas.
<h2 id="fitness-goals-coming-along-nicely">Fitness Goals Coming Along Nicely</h2>
With regards to my strength training, my switch to nSuns is going well. I&#39;ve been getting back up to my previous highs and have broken my deadlifts PR by 5 lbs. hitting 1 rep at 390. Currently sitting at 965 lbs. towards the 1,000 lbs. club. Maybe March will be the lucky month. I might drop weights afterwards a tad to focus on getting higher reps, but I&#39;ll decide that later.
With running, the weather has been crazy warm and I&#39;ve taken advantage of that to run some longer distances. I&#39;d been focusing on running 3 miles per run, this month I was targeting 4+ miles. Managed that on all but one run, and even hit 5 and then 6 miles too. Getting some longer runs in earlier will hopefully help a bit when I go to start training for the marathon later in the year.
<h2 id="traveling-to-hershey">Traveling to Hershey</h2>
At the end of the month, Lauren and I drove out to Hershey, Pennsylvania to explore some of their distilleries and breweries, and to see a Lehigh Valley Phantoms hockey game against the local Bears team.
The hotel we stayed up was awesomely enough within walking distance of some great restaurants and distilleries. We ended up stopping by <a href="https://www.midstatedistillery.com/">Midstate Distillery</a>, <a href="https://www.hiddenstillspirits.com/">Hidden Still Spirits</a>, <a href="https://www.tatteredflagsupplydrop.com">Tattered Flag</a> &amp; <a href="https://troegs.com">Troegs</a>. It was a fun trip, and there were more places we would like to see next time we meander out that way.
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<h2 id="continuing-my-blazor-journey">Continuing My Blazor Journey</h2>
I&#39;ve continued to work with Blazor in building my card organizer app. I&#39;ve been really impressed with the ease of which I can build out forms. I&#39;m making good progress and hope to have an MVP out in the next month or so.
<h2 id="work">Work</h2>
Work has been going well so far this year. I&#39;ve been working on getting several pages rewritten into React to make it a little easier for my team and the design team to work on them.
I&#39;ve also been immersing myself in the database project to help set it up for true integration tests. We&#39;ve been using mock data which is less than ideal. I&#39;ve been working with our engineering team to get a docker container set up to allow our integration tests to run as part of our CI/CD process. I&#39;m learning a lot and it&#39;s actually a pretty neat process.
<h2 id="monthly-round-up">Monthly Round-Up</h2>
🏃🏼‍♂️ Running &amp; Biking
<ul>
<li>Running: I ended up running a little over 31 miles. The upside is that I took advantage of the nicer weather to run longer distances.</li>
<li>Biking: Still nope</li>
</ul>
🏋🏼‍♂️ Lifting
<ul>
<li>Switched to running a program based off <a href="https://liftvault.com/programs/powerlifting/n-suns-lifting-spreadsheets/">nSuns</a> and ended up setting a new PR of 390 lbs. on deadlifts as well as some 2 and 3 rep PRS on Bench Press &amp; Squats.</li>
</ul>
📚 Reading
Finished
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-nations-a-history-of-the-eleven-rival-regional-cultures-of-north-america-colin-woodard/16638225?ean=9780143122029">American Nations</a> by Colin Woodard</li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/liar-s-poker-michael-lewis/8855267?ean=9780393338690">Liar&#39;s Poker</a> by Michael Lewis</li>
</ul>
Started
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-gods-neil-gaiman/6438874?ean=9780063081918">American Gods</a> by Neil Gaiman</li>
</ul>
✍🏻 Writing
<ul>
<li>Continued my reading logs<ul>
<li><a href="https://kpwags.com/reading-log/17">Reading Log - February 3 (#17)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kpwags.com/reading-log/18">Reading Log - February 10 (#18)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kpwags.com/reading-log/19">Reading Log - February 17 (#19)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Wrote about <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/02/16/luck">Luck</a></li>
</ul>
🎮 Gaming
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/horizon-zero-dawn/">Horizon Zero Dawn</a> - Didn&#39;t game much, but still playing through</li>
</ul>
📺 Watched
<ul>
<li>Started <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13991232/">1883</a></li>
<li>Started <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8806524/">Star Trek: Picard Season 3</a></li>
<li>Continuing <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/">Star Trek: Voyager</a></li>
<li>Continuing <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/">It&#39;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia</a></li>
<li>Continuing <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118298/">Daria</a></li>
</ul>
🎬 Movies
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10696784/">The Harder They Fall</a></li>
<li><a href="https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7657566/">Death on the Nile</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/">Margin Call</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5688932/">Sorry to Bother You</a></li>
</ul>

February Check-In

Due to a trip out of town last weekend, this edition has 2 weeks worth of links!
<h2 id="in-depth">In Depth</h2>
&lt;InDepthNotes
 source=&quot;Tom Warren&quot;
 title=&quot;Sony might be forced to reveal how much it pays to keep games off Xbox Game Pass&quot;
 url=&quot;<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23623363/microsoft-sony-ftc-activision-blocking-rights-exclusivity&quot;">https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23623363/microsoft-sony-ftc-activision-blocking-rights-exclusivity&quot;</a>
<blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre><code>I&#39;m not much of a fan of Microsoft buying Activision, but if Sony is pulling stuff like this, that should most certainly be brought out to the public...and it should stop.
</code></pre>
</InDepthNotes>

&lt;InDepthNotes
 source=&quot;Diana Moskovitz&quot;
 title=&quot;The Program Must Be Protected&quot;
 url=&quot;<a href="https://defector.com/the-program-must-be-protected&quot;">https://defector.com/the-program-must-be-protected&quot;</a>
<blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre><code>I really wish I could say I was surprised by this, but I&#39;m really not. When it comes to sports, winning trumps everything...morals be damned.
</code></pre>
</InDepthNotes>

<h2 id="link-blast">Link Blast</h2>
<h3 id="👨🏼💻-software-development--design">👨🏼‍💻 Software Development &amp; Design</h3>
<a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/reference-github-issues-and-pull-requests-in-visual-studio/">Reference GitHub Issues and Pull Requests in Visual Studio</a> (Jessie Houghton)
<a href="https://kristoffer-strube.dk/post/the-blazor-navigationmanager/">The Blazor NavigationManager</a> (Kristoffer Strube)
<a href="https://stenbrinke.nl/blog/taking-ef-core-data-seeding-to-the-next-level-with-bogus/">Taking Entity Framework Core data seeding to the next level with Bogus</a> (Sander ten Brinke)
<a href="https://code.tutsplus.com/articles/array-merge-in-javascript--cms-93870">Merge Arrays in JavaScript: With and Without Duplicates</a> (Divya Dev)
<a href="https://codeteddy.com/2023/02/14/typecasting-in-c/">Typecasting in C#</a> (Akhil Mittal)
<a href="https://devops.com/technical-debt-is-a-major-threat-to-innovation/">Technical Debt is a Major Threat to Innovation</a> (Mike Vizard)
<a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-8-preview-1/">Announcing .NET 8 Preview 1</a> (Jeremy Likness)
<a href="https://bartwullems.blogspot.com/2023/02/c-11the-scoped-keyword.html">C# 11 - The scoped keyword</a> (Bart Wullems)
<a href="https://www.infoq.com/articles/unit-testing-approach/">The Unit in Unit Testing</a> (Tyson Gern)
<a href="https://uxdesign.cc/make-it-easier-is-not-a-product-strategy-5d0fdab1f76e">“Make it easier” is not a product strategy</a> (Pavel Samsonov)
<a href="https://css-irl.info/resizing-with-css/">Resizing with CSS</a> (Michelle Barker)
<a href="https://gapsystudio.com/blog/brutalism-web-design/">Brutalism Web Design</a> (Gapsy)
<a href="https://www.builder.io/blog/css-tips-for-better-web-development">CSS Tips for Better Web Development</a> (Yoav Ganbar)
<a href="https://jeremybytes.blogspot.com/2023/02/c-var-with-reference-types-is-always.html">C# “var” with a Reference Type is Always Nullable</a> (Jeremy Bytes)
<a href="https://jonhilton.net/blazor-united/">Blazor United - Solving Blazor&#39;s biggest challenges?</a> (Jon Hilton)
<a href="https://www.planetgeek.ch/2023/02/22/myths-about-f-f-is-for-fp-c-for-oop/">Myths about F#: F# is for FP, C# for OOP! No, F# loves OO</a> (Urs Enzler)
<a href="https://laurentkempe.com/2023/02/20/refactoring-huge-csharp-code-base-in-minutes/">Refactoring huge C# code base in minutes</a> (Laurent Kempé)
<a href="https://alice.pages.igalia.com/blog/how-shadow-dom-and-accessibility-are-in-conflict/">How Shadow DOM and accessibility are in conflict</a> (Alice Boxhall)
<a href="https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/handling-http-errors-javascript.aspx">5 Best Practices in Handling HTTP Errors in JavaScript</a> (Lahiru Lakshan Hewawasam)
<a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/27/stop-saying-technical-debt/">Stop saying “technical debt”</a> (Chelsea Troy)
<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-worlds-fastest-growing-programming-language/">How Rust went from a side project to the world&#39;s most-loved programming language</a> (Clive Thompson)
<a href="https://code-maze.com/charp-difference-between-returning-and-awaiting-a-task/">Difference Between Returning and Awaiting a Task in C#</a> (Ahsan Ullah)
<a href="https://www.learmoreseekmore.com/2023/02/part-1-dotnet7-aspnetcore-identity-series-intro-and-project-setup.html">Asp.Net Core Identity Series.NET 7 Introduction &amp; Project Setup</a> (Naveen Bommidi)
<a href="https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/style-queries/">Getting Started with Style Queries</a> (Una Kravets)
<a href="https://mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/spy-chrome-extension">Let&#39;s build a Chrome extension that steals everything</a> (Matt Frisbie)
<a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/nuget/write-a-high-quality-readme-for-nuget-packages/">Write a high-quality README for NuGet packages</a> (Lynn Dai)
<a href="https://scrollbar.app/">Scrollbar</a> (Henri Parviainen)
<a href="https://ericsink.com/native_aot/delegate_i32.html">Delegates</a> (Erik Sink)
<h3 id="🖥-technology--the-internet">🖥 Technology &amp; the Internet</h3>
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23612141/fitbit-google-server-outage-challenges-wearables">What is going on with Fitbit?</a> (Victoria Song)
<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/8a2e8442-449e-4dbd-bd6d-2656b4503526">How Apple captured Gen Z in the US — and changed their social circles</a> (Patrick McGee)
<a href="https://searchengineland.com/musk-gave-engineers-one-week-to-make-twitters-ad-targeting-work-like-google-393457">Musk gave engineers one week to make Twitter&#39;s ad targeting work like Google</a> (Nicole Farley)
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/23/23610362/spotify-ai-dj-beta-announcement-custom-playlist-feature-personalized">Spotify&#39;s new AI-powered DJ builds and commentates on custom playlists</a> (Jess Weatherbed &amp; James Vincent)
<a href="https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2023-02-23-investing-in-rss/">Investing in RSS</a> (Tim Kadlec)
<a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/hackers-claim-they-breached-t-mobile-more-than-100-times-in-2022/">Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022</a> (Brian Krebs)
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/biden-administration-wants-to-hold-companies-liable-for-bad-cybersecurity/">Biden administration wants to hold companies liable for bad cybersecurity</a> (Dan Goodin)
<h3 id="🎮-gaming">🎮 Gaming</h3>
<a href="https://www.polygon.com/23613774/halo-infinite-season-three-trailer-bandit-rifle-community-playlist">Halo Infinite season 3 is gonna bring everyone back to Halo Infinite</a> (Ari Notis)
<a href="https://www.polygon.com/23610095/valve-dota-2-huge-ban-trap">Valve bans 40,000 Dota 2 cheaters through &#39;honeypot&#39; patch</a> (Nicole Carpenter)
<h3 id="📈-business--finance">📈 Business &amp; Finance</h3>
<a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/02/16/scrutiny-of-major-crypto-institutions-is-intensifying">Scrutiny of major crypto institutions is intensifying</a> (The Economist)
<a href="https://ritholtz.com/2023/02/what-if-dunning-kruger-explains-everything/">What if Dunning Kruger Explains Everything?</a> (Barry Ritholtz)
<a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/03/02/the-anti-esg-industry-is-taking-investors-for-a-ride">The anti-ESG industry is taking investors for a ride</a> (The Economist)
<h3 id="🎧-podcasts">🎧 Podcasts</h3>
<a href="https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/algorithms-may-start-deciding-who-gets-fired/">Marketplace Tech: Algorithms may start deciding who gets fired</a>
<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-brooke-the-press-in-war">On the Media: Brooke on the Press in Times of War</a>
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/01/1160397633/congressional-budget-office-medicare-medicaid">Planet Money #1619: How the CBO estimated Medicare&#39;s prescription drug cost</a>
<a href="https://theathletic.com/4170706/2023/02/14/nfl-black-players-coaches-race/">Between the Lines Episode 1: How America&#39;s biggest game has failed to grapple with its biggest issue</a>
<a href="https://theathletic.com/4242176/2023/02/24/how-player-activism-in-the-nfl-has-recently-evolved/">Between the Lines Episode 2: How player activism in the NFL has recently evolved</a>
<a href="https://theathletic.com/4268811/2023/03/03/clarence-shelmon-nfl-between-the-lines-podcast-episode-3/">Between the Lines Episode 3: Why a Black coach retired early from the NFL</a>
<h3 id="🎒-everything-else">🎒 Everything Else</h3>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/28/new-desantis-endorsed-florida-bill-an-outright-attack-on-the-1st-amendment-and-free-speech/">New DeSantis-Endorsed Florida Bill An Outright Attack On The 1st Amendment And Free Speech</a> (Mike Masnick)
<a href="https://www.polygon.com/23620555/worf-star-trek-picard-season-3-michael-dorn-interview">Star Trek legend Michael Dorn reflects on Worf&#39;s final act in Picard</a> (Dylan Roth)
<h3 id="🎵-a-song-to-leave-you-with">🎵 A Song to Leave You With</h3>
<h4 id="angels--airwaves---the-adventure">Angels &amp; Airwaves - The Adventure</h4>
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Due to a trip out of town last weekend, this edition has 2 weeks worth of links!

Reading Log - March 3 (#20)

It seems like a new year just started and already we&#39;re one month in...
<h2 id="getting-back-into-fitness">Getting Back into Fitness</h2>
Not that I really stopped last year, but I started a bigger emphasis on it this year. I&#39;ve made a concerted effort to drink less alcohol and try to limit my snacking. So far it&#39;s been working. I didn&#39;t do Dry January but I did a better job of not overindulging on the weekends.
With the nice weather, I&#39;ve also been getting more runs in. I managed 48 miles in January, somehow running in the high 40s and low 50s some days.
With regards to lifting, I switched back to running an nSuns based routine. I&#39;m putting in more sets and reps and have been getting back to my personal bests. I&#39;m 100 pounds away from my goal of joining the 1,000 pound club!
<h2 id="picking-up-blazor">Picking Up Blazor</h2>
As a .NET developer, Blazor has been on my radar for a little while now. I decided to play around with it and learn by building a web app to go through and organize my baseball card collection (because why not?). I haven&#39;t gotten that far and I&#39;m actually toying with the idea of streaming a little bit of it on Twitch or something.
<h2 id="go-birds">Go Birds</h2>
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The Philadelphia Eagles are back in the Super Bowl facing off against the Kansas City Chiefs. Grease those light posts!
<h2 id="monthly-round-up">Monthly Round-Up</h2>
<h3 id="🏃🏼♂️-running--biking">🏃🏼‍♂️ Running &amp; Biking</h3>
<ul>
<li>Running: I ended up running 48 miles this month</li>
<li>Biking: Need to get on this</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="🏋🏼♂️-lifting">🏋🏼‍♂️ Lifting</h3>
<ul>
<li>Switch programs and have quickly started to get my lifts back to my all-time highs.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="📚-reading">📚 Reading</h3>
Finished
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/snow-crash-neal-stephenson/7327954?ean=9780553380958">Snow Crash</a> by Neal Stephenson</li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-bond-king-how-one-man-made-a-market-built-an-empire-and-lost-it-all-mary-childs/15873505?ean=9781250120847">The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All</a> by Mary Childs</li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-bomb-presidents-generals-and-the-secret-history-of-nuclear-war-fred-kaplan/7774644?ean=9781982107307">The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War</a> by Fred Kaplan</li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-bomber-mafia-a-dream-a-temptation-and-the-longest-night-of-the-second-world-war-malcolm-gladwell/17377135?ean=9780316296816">The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War</a> by Malcolm Gladwell</li>
</ul>
Started
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-nations-a-history-of-the-eleven-rival-regional-cultures-of-north-america-colin-woodard/16638225?ean=9780143122029">American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America</a> by Colin Woodard</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="✍🏻-writing">✍🏻 Writing</h3>
<ul>
<li>Continued my reading logs<ul>
<li><a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/01/06/reading-log-january-6-13">January 6 (#13)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/01/13/reading-log-january-13-14">January 13 (#14)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/01/20/reading-log-january-20-15">January 20 (#15)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/01/27/reading-log-january-27-16">January 27 (#16)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Wrote about <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/01/02/2022-retrospective">2022 and Looking onto 2023</a></li>
<li>Wrote about the <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/01/07/books-i-read-in-2022">books I read in 2022</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="🎮-gaming">🎮 Gaming</h3>
<ul>
<li>Continued <a href="https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/horizon-zero-dawn/">Horizon Zero Dawn</a></li>
<li>Played a bit of <a href="https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/goldeneye-007/9n6639h7vgh4">GoldenEye 007</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="📺-watched">📺 Watched</h2>
<ul>
<li>Continuing <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118298/">Daria</a></li>
<li>Continuing <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/">It&#39;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia</a></li>
<li>Continuing <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/">Star Trek: Voyager</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="🎬-movies">🎬 Movies</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11564570/">Glass Onion</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8041270/">Jurassic World: Dominion</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10304142/">Amsterdam</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1302006/">The Irishman</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/">Clerks</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14826022/">You People</a></li>
</ul>

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