Quarterly Review 2025 Q3 - External Factors

Someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection The lovers, the broken, the dreamers, the beaten, and me

• The Muppets and My Chemical Romance, I Believe in the Green Parade

Surviving, but not thriving.

previously - 2025 Q2 - Nights into Dreams

There is no way to sugarcoat this. We've had problems all this year, and this quarter feels like the worst of that in terms of personal projects. We were making decent progress on at least some things up to August, and then things kind of fell off a cliff.

But there is, at least to some extent, a greater understanding of why we're running so low on energy. Work's cloud transformation is in flux with decisions that were assumed as being locked in months ago suddenly changing, and our team's role in this being... unclear, long term. There's a lot to potentially learn, which is nice from an interest perspective, but knowing what to focus on is difficult. Would learning Python or Go be a better investment? We know Kubernetes will be important, but what tooling and standards are placed on top of it, and what level will our team be interacting with it?

And at the same time that's going on, we have payment processors cracking down on anything