love letter to new york

to which you’d say, like the guy I’m sitting next to in this organic burger joint: “IDGAF bout your stupid bitchass letter” (this is the clean ver)

here goes.

Come off the plane in Newark, not too cold! Thanks ny metro carbon cover :)

Lyft driver clearly gouging me going through staten island/bklyn route so I report this dude and get him offed the lyft community before we get to Chelsea while I’m still in the car.

New York, you are frozen in a time capsule. Some things refuse to be gentrified. my go-to 99cent pizza hideout, clearly engaging in money laundering, is still around! rejoice!!

I love how tons of places are still open so I can grab this second dinner. Wanted Japanese with the 90s rnb but alas had more seating to charge my stuff here. 

Can’t wait to get on the subway to metrotech rushing from meeting to meeting. For now will be taking a slumber amidst the heap.

Love you!

you know what's funny?

When things are chill and happy at home, we are usually talking to our son in Chinese. But when things escalate and I'm reaching my limit, I seem to have no choice but to voice my frustration in English.

Which is like, exactly what my parents did (in reverse). Speaking English during peacetime, blowing up in Chinese when it's hitting the fan.

This thought tickles me a lot.

spoiled

A lot of times the portraits of grace that are (rightly) elevated are those where through trial and hardship, someone is able to lean on God and find comfort and persevere.

My experience has been not one of suffering but of regular distractions. I have loved moving back to Maryland, then I got consumed with being a new parent, and arguably got more consumed by getting my dream job.

In each case I let that thing be my identity and worth. Doing so didn't lead to great outcomes. I turn back to God only after being burnt out and disappointed. I didn’t maintain faithful discipleship nor wanted to.

God is very sweet to me in his grace and welcoming. He does not change.

My first open source project

I recently pushed a project to the official Google Github page.

This year has been a transition from advisory work (powerpoints and excels) to something much more technical. Not a big deal to my peers in the same field, but I'm marking it as a personal milestone.

As for what the code does, it finds files in Google Drive that were just made visible across the domain, e.g., "Anyone at company.com with the link can view/edit [this file]," and then removes that visibility.

Open to contributions and pull requests! We just have a contributor license agreement and you're good to go :) https://cla.developers.google.com/