<p>Too much Musk this week.</p>
<h2 id="in-depth">In-Depth</h2>
<p>&lt;InDepthNotes
    source=&quot;Nilay Patel&quot;
    title=&quot;Welcome to Hell, Elon&quot;
    url=&quot;<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation&quot;">https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation&quot;</a></p>
<blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre><code>Twitter is now in Elon Musk&#39;s hands and I suspect he&#39;s in well over his head. I myself am probably leaving Twitter and am already more active on [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@kpwags). Free speech is what makes this country great but time and time again this has proven to turn online platforms into cesspools. Assuming Musk treats Twitter the same way as Gab, Parler and the like, I would imagine that Twitter would probably head down that route too, though probably to a lesser extent.
</code></pre>
</InDepthNotes>

<p>&lt;InDepthNotes
    source=&quot;Vercel&quot;
    title=&quot;Next.js 13&quot;
    url=&quot;<a href="https://nextjs.org/blog/next-13&quot;">https://nextjs.org/blog/next-13&quot;</a></p>
<blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre><code>My blog runs on Next.js and I&#39;m curious as to the new improvements, especially with regards to [Turbopack](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-13#introducing-turbopack-alpha)
</code></pre>
</InDepthNotes>

<h2 id="link-blast">Link Blast</h2>
<h3 className="text">👨🏼‍💻 Software Development</h3>

<p><a href="https://www.stefanjudis.com/snippets/a-centered-css-grid-with-full-width-components/">A centered CSS grid with full-width components</a> <em>(Stefan Judis)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/bc82fda9-eb47-47bd-850b-9d115a59a571">Throwing exceptions - Why is my stack trace lost?</a> <em>(Steven Giesel)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/lets-talk-about-web-components/">Let&#39;s talk about web components</a> <em>(Brad Frost)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://dev.to/elliot_brenyasarfo_18749/its-ok-to-write-garbage-code-once-in-a-while-3bjp">It&#39;s OK to write garbage code once in a while.</a> <em>(Elliot Brenya sarfo)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://cloudfour.com/thinks/highly-customizable-background-gradients/">Highly Customizable Background Gradients</a> <em>(Scott Vandehey)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/posts/generic-types-arguments-specific-types-return-values/">Generic types are for arguments, specific types are for return values</a> <em>(Vladimir Khorikov)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://blog.ndepend.com/c-11-file-scoped-types/">C# 11 File Scoped Types</a> <em>(Patrick Smacchia)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://dev.to/integerman/differences-between-net-collection-interfaces-g3i">Differences between .NET Collection Interfaces</a> <em>(Matt Eland)</em></p>
<h3 className="text">🖥 Technology</h3>

<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/lego-to-discontinue-mindstorms-robot-line-after-a-24-year-run/">Lego to discontinue Mindstorms robot line after a 24-year run</a> <em>(Benj Edwards)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/linux-kernel-needs-your-help-testing-backlight-drivers-on-old-weird-laptops/">&quot;Old/weird laptops&quot; sought to help test Linux kernel backlight drivers</a> <em>(Kevin Purdy)</em></p>
<h3 className="text">🎮 Gaming</h3>

<p><a href="https://www.polygon.com/23423466/age-of-empires-definitive-edition-xbox-console-release-date">Age of Empires is coming for your Xbox</a> <em>(Ana Diaz)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.polygon.com/23423009/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-de-escalation-trailer-park-press-f">Modern Warfare 2 teaches players the worst way to ‘de-escalate’ a risky situation</a> <em>(Owen S. Good)</em></p>
<h3 className="text">📈 Business and Finance</h3>

<p><a href="https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/24/the-end-of-apples-affair-with-china">The end of Apple&#39;s affair with China</a> <em>(💰 The Economist)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/elon-musk-completes-twitter-purchase-immediately-fires-ceo-and-other-execs/">Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs</a> <em>(Jon Brodkin)</em></p>
<h3 className="text">🔬 Science</h3>

<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/top-covid-symptoms-shift-from-fever-cough-to-sore-throat-stuffy-nose/">With shots and infections, the most common COVID symptoms have shifted</a> <em>(Beth Mole)</em></p>
<h3 className="text">⚾ Sports</h3>

<p><a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/bryce-harpers-game-5-home-run-was-a-master-class-in-hitting/">Bryce Harper&#39;s Game 5 Home Run Was a Master Class in Hitting</a> <em>(Esteban Rivera)</em></p>
<h3 className="text">🎧 Podcasts</h3>

<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/20/1130379581/the-uks-productivity-problem">The Indicator: The UK&#39;s productivity problem</a></p>
<p><a href="https://radiolab.org/episodes/helen-keller-exorcism">Radiolab: The Helen Keller Exorcism</a></p>
<p><a href="https://changelog.com/jsparty/216">JS Party #216: Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/cryptocurrency-has-a-trust-problem/">Marketplace Tech: Cryptocurrency has a trust problem</a></p>
<h3 className="text">🎒 Everything Else</h3>

<p><a href="https://www.gq.com/story/wrexham-fc-ryan-reynolds-rob-mcelhenney">Inside Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s Great Wrexham Gambit</a> <em>(Tom Lamont)</em></p>
<h3 className="text">🎵 A Song to Leave You With</h3>

<h4 id="the-scandals---lucky-sevens">The Scandals - Lucky Sevens</h4>
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Reading Log - October 28 (#3)

<p>I can&#39;t believe the first half of 2022 is already over. Another month has come and gone and I&#39;m not sure what I have to show for it.</p>
<h2 id="recovering-from-covid">Recovering from COVID</h2>
<p>At the end of May, I ended up getting COVID as I mentioned. Thanks to the vaccine and booster, it wasn&#39;t too bad, but I&#39;ve struggled to get back into the swing of fitness. I was in a nice groove, but now I feel a little &quot;off&quot;. Not physically, just mentally. Between work &amp; hockey, I feel like I haven&#39;t had the time to get my normal lifting sessions in. I didn&#39;t run as much as I would&#39;ve hoped as I&#39;m still getting my lung capacity back. I&#39;m not rushing into anything as I start training for the marathon next month. Figure ease myself back into it.</p>
<p>The other downside of COVID throwing me for a loop is that I&#39;m also figuring this will probably be my best chance to hit my deadlift goal and my goal of hitting the 1,000 lbs. club. I&#39;m hoping to go for 365 on squats and 400 on deadlifts. That, combined with my 235 on bench press will give me 1,000 lbs. on the nose. Maybe I&#39;ll be able to try to work up bench press to 250 like I wanted in December, but I&#39;m not holding my breath. I already hit my squats goal of 350, so if I can hit 400 on deadlifts, and 1,000 between bench press, squats &amp; deadlifts this year, I&#39;ll be quite happy.</p>
<h2 id="the-re-design">The Re-Design</h2>
<p>At the beginning of the month, I released a redesign of the blog. I ended up changing the color and slightly tweaked the layouts. I decided I wanted the home page to have a little more pop. I like the way it turned out. I ended up cleaning up some of the code I used to display what <a href="https://kpwags.com/current">I&#39;m currently up to</a>, the <a href="https://kpwags.com/bookshelf">bookshelf</a> and <a href="https://kpwags.com/movies">movies</a> pages as well. Still got a little bit to clean up here and there, but I like it so far.</p>
<p>I&#39;m hoping to introduce a few tweaks to make posting a little smoother and easier over the next month.</p>
<h2 id="new-york-city">New York City</h2>
<p>I ended up going to New York City mid-month for my birthday. The weather was nice and it wasn&#39;t too hot. Not too much to report, though I was able to go to the Morgan Library and Museum and that was incredible. So many old and classic books, including two Gutenberg Bibles on display.</p>
<h2 id="brand-new-desktop">Brand New Desktop</h2>
<p>After going back and forth for the last few months, I finally ended up deciding to build a brand new PC. I kept my graphics card from my old one as well as the SSD, but got a new CPU, RAM &amp; case. I ended up going with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU and bumped my RAM up to 32 GB. Took the plunge and went with Windows 11 as well. No complaints so far. Figure I should be good with PC gaming for a while. I can upgrade the graphics card later down the line.</p>
<h2 id="monthly-roundup">Monthly Roundup</h2>
<p><strong>🏃🏼‍♂️ Running &amp; Biking</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Running:</strong> Only ran a little over 17 miles this month. COVID recovery and the heat limited me a bit.</li>
<li><strong>Biking:</strong> Nope</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>🏋🏼‍♂️ Lifting:</strong> Not much to report, getting back into the swing of it for my last cycle prior to the marathon.</p>
<p><strong>📚 Reading:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/born-a-crime-stories-from-a-south-african-childhood/9780399588198" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Trevor Noah - Born a Crime</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/project-hail-mary/9780593135204" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/unit-testing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns</a> - Continued reading this.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>✍🏻 Writing</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Started up <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/06/03/reading-list">my</a> <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/06/10/reading-list">weekly</a> <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/06/24/reading-list">reading</a> <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/07/01/reading-list">posts</a></li>
<li>Wrote about <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/07/01/mocking-react-router-and-useparams">mocking useParams when using React Router</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>🎮 Gaming</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Destiny/WitchQueen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Destiny 2</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/battlefront/star-wars-battlefront-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Star Wars Battlefront II</a></li>
<li><a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/wowclassic" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">WoW: Burning Crusade Classic</a></li>
</ul>


June Check-In

<p>May was an eventful month. I didn&#39;t do much because I was exposed to COVID…and then got COVID later in the month. Needless to say, the month could have gone better, but it could have been far worse.</p>
<h2 id="covid">COVID</h2>
<p>Getting the COVID part over with…early in the month, my wife and I ended up getting exposed to COVID. We opted to play it safe and isolated ourselves up in the house for 3-4 days to make sure we didn&#39;t have it or spread it to others. We never got it…then later in the month happened. I got it, presumably from hockey, and while I holed myself up in the basement trying to protect my wife from it, failed at that too. While certainly not pleasant, both of us are fine now and thankfully only had to deal with mild symptoms. Being vaccinated and boosted certainly helped keep us out of the hospital and alive.</p>
<h2 id="data--office-clean-up">Data &amp; Office Clean-Up</h2>
<p>Earlier in the month I decided to delve back into Linux by putting the latest version of Fedora on my desktop to dual boot. I was hoping to extend its life a little bit, but even with Fedora, it is seemingly a little on the sluggish side. I&#39;ll have to play around with it a little bit to see if I can figure out what&#39;s going on. It was beneficial though because it allowed me to pull the data off my old server&#39;s hard drives. I used to run a file server on an old desktop computer. Sadly it died and all my data was just sitting around on the hard drives. I recently bought a Synology NAS and spent the better part of a weekend pulling data off the old drives and put them onto my NAS. I have to do some organization, but at least the data is now accessible.</p>
<h2 id="fitness-news">Fitness News</h2>
<p>I also finally made the decision to run the 2022 Philadelphia Marathon. I&#39;ve been going back and forth on it, and finally decided to run it in an attempt to run a sub-5 hour marathon. I&#39;ll have to trim 15 minutes from my 2015 time, but I think it&#39;s doable. Official training starts in August, but I&#39;m gonna try to slowly up the distance prior.</p>
<p>I also ended up hitting new PRs on both deadlifts and squats. Managed 385 lbs. on deadlifts, and hit my 350 lbs. goal on squats. Yay me! I ended up stalling on bench press so hopefully I can get that going again in June. Want to try to hit my goals by the time marathon training kicks in.</p>
<h2 id="stage-fright">Stage Fright</h2>
<p>I volunteered to give a presentation on unit testing to my company&#39;s development department. I was nervous as all get-out, but managed to do it. Probably could&#39;ve done a little better, but it didn&#39;t go bad.</p>
<h2 id="monthly-roundup">Monthly Roundup</h2>
<p><strong>🏃🏼‍♂️ Running &amp; Biking</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Running:</strong> Only ran a little over 23 miles this month.</li>
<li><strong>Biking:</strong> Nope</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>🏋🏼‍♂️ Lifting:</strong> Ended up setting new PRs on both deadlifts (385 lbs.) &amp; squats (350 lbs.)</p>
<p><strong>📚 Reading:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-passion-economy-the-new-rules-for-thriving-in-the-twenty-first-century/9780804172776" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">The Passion Economy</a> - Finished this one. It was not what I was expecting, but some interesting stories about making it in today&#39;s economy.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/unit-testing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns</a> - Continued reading this.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>✍🏻 Writing</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Started up my <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/05/13/reading-list">weekly</a> <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/05/20/reading-list">reading</a> <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/05/27/reading-list">posts</a></li>
<li>Wrote about <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/05/12/taking-control-of-your-content">taking control of your content</a></li>
<li>Wrote about <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/05/29/better-sql-update-stored-procedures">better SQL update stored procedures</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>🎮 Gaming</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Destiny/WitchQueen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Destiny 2</a> - Getting back into it</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/super-mario-odyssey-switch/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Super Mario Odyssey</a> - Picked up a new Nintendo Switch and this.</li>
</ul>


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