Thoughts on code, shipped when they’re ready.
Async Notes
Welcome to Async Notes — a running notebook of things I run into as a software developer. Code, tools, bugs that took way too long to fix, and whatever I’m learning at the moment. No fixed schedule, just notes written whenever they’re ready.

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<h1> Hello world </h1>
What to expect from this blog
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entries since 2019, most of them short
Nothing here is sponsored and nothing is a system. It is one family writing down the weekday hours before they go, twenty minutes at a time.

Out of doors
Walks that were meant to be short, and the long argument about whether it counts as a hike if nobody wanted to go.
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What actually gets eaten
The suppers that get made on repeat, the recipes my mother posts in the mail, and honest notes on what the children pushed to the side of the plate.
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Slow trips
One bag, low expectations, and somewhere within a tank of fuel. The trips are small and the write-ups are honest about the parts that went wrong.
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It all happens at
the kitchen table
Lessons in the morning, potatoes in the afternoon, letters to grandparents when it rains. Most of what ends up on this blog started at the same scrubbed table, and the entries read like it.


Days out, kept small on purpose
We stopped planning grand outings the year the youngest learned to say no. Now it is one flask, one field or one stretch of coast, and home before anyone is properly cross. Those days fill more of the archive than anything else.

“I came for the homeschooling notes and stayed for the Tuesdays. It is the only blog I still read slowly, the way you read a letter.”
Jane Smith
Reader since 2021