Keto Diet
In August, I paused my Keto diet. I was traveling a lot with my daughter for summer vacation, and you might be surprised to find it's hard to eat Keto at Circus World. I had plateaued and been out of ketosis for over three months (since the new job), so I'm guessing it's related to cortisol.
My plan was to restart once she started school again in September, but I haven't. It's disheartening because I've regained about 40 lbs from where I was in August. I started the diet back in October 2024, the Monday before Halloween. Maybe that's a good time to restart and recommit to my diet.
PetPlace
After 5.5 years at Johnson Health Tech, I started a new job at PetPlace on May 19th. It's very intellectually demanding, and I feel more engaged than I have in a long time.
My primary project right now is building out 24PetShelter, a management tool for pet shelters.
The biggest shift is I'm going from an almost purely backend position to a frontend heavy full-stack role. I'm practicing my React skills daily and learning React Router 7 (formerly Remix), which I really enjoy.
Claude Code
For the last few weeks, I've been playing around with Claude Code and have found it to be very useful. In particular, I've been leveraging it to modernize my RSS Cloud Server project, which has been on the back burner for several years.
It's very much AI-assisted and not "Vibe Coding" because I know specifically what I want to be improved, and I'm running everything through my extensive tests and doing code reviews. It's allowing me to take months of work and compress it into hours.
The biggest variable is that I'm so stretched with my new job that I haven't had the mental bandwidth for side projects. Using Claude Code has allowed me to start checking things off my to-do list and giving myself more margin.