Tomorrow will likely be a very rough day at Meta. The rumors will become realities and many people will no longer be working there. I may be one of them. This sucks for everyone involved. The people impacted, the people fortunate enough to make it through, and the ones that will leave even after all of this as they have simply had enough. And I can’t blame them.

Unfortunately, the only constant at this company is change. When I joined we were only going to have 2, may be 3 buildings at a site. The site I used to sit at now has 12 buildings and two tents. It holds 3x the capacity of what the entire fleet was when I started. And we’ve added 26 more sites some of which will be gigawatts in size.

Trying something new with the site. I have been running the Mainroad theme for several years now so I decided it was time to try something new. I’m not sure if I’m completely sold on it but its growing on me.

The new theme uses more of a burnt orange as the highlight color and with warm tone grays and browns. Another nice feature of the theme is that it is adaptive to your system settings. If you rock the dark theme, the new one will not blind you as it adapts to whatever you have.

There are certain technologies that come along and you wonder, where is this going to make a true impact in my life? The LLMs that are out there are pretty amazing. You can imagine new pictures, make new memes, create poems and rap songs. Upload a book and turn it into a podcast with almost no effort at all.

And then there are the coding agents.

Work / Life balance is something that we talk about a lot at work. I think the problem with it is, work AND life are often intertwined and leaving the office, especially when you work from home, is challenging.

With this years theme, I want to get more hands on. I want to see the results of the work or craft that I put in. This can be seen as a rebranding of the year of learning where I wanted to learn certain skills in the shop and ended up learning the skills needed for a new role. While successful, it didn’t hit all that I was looking to do.

If you want to look back and what I set out to accomplish this year read the original post.

How did it really go?

Its that time of the year when you can sit back, reflect on the things you accomplished and wonder…what did I actually do? Where the f&ck did the year go?!?!?

If you look back at what I was hoping to do there was a heavy theme about spending more time in the shop creating and making things. IF anything this year, I spent noticeably LESS time in the shop. This is a failure on many levels. My stress increased and more time was spent sitting in front of a computer working.