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Nolan Miller
Nolan Miller

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May 2026

Theme of the month

Slowing down. Being present. Refactoring.

Small wins

  • Long overdue business logic extraction in our Events system. More to go, but feels good to get it started!
  • Created infrastructure to receive, queue and handle webhooks. A nice greenfield-ish project.
  • A GET query method that supports a filter. May seem small, but I have enjoyed working with it so much that it made the list.

Worth a read

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - I still haven't seen the movie, but I loved this.
  • The Martian by Andy Weir - Can you tell I liked Project Hail Mary?
  • Ten minutes a day - The reason you're even reading this post.

Half-baked

  • Fix more than they ask for when a bug is reported. Fix the bug for them, fix the system for you.
  • It's satisfying to make a flexible interface, but hopefully it's useful too
  • DB retrievals with filters just feel better... maybe because it makes me feel clever for putting it together.

Other Things

I'm better at golf when I'm present, and focused on the shot not the swing.

Reading is better when I'm present and focused on reading and not getting through something.

I just got a Kindle!

Ohio weather is not good.

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