Fun facts and uncomfortably specific advice

1. I invented air.
2. I first started programming with a TI-82 and TI-BASIC in school ... unless you want to call the pure HTML site I build on Geocities in 1997 "programming".
3. I started using Python in 2001 with Python 2.1.
4. ~I am not looking for a new opportunity, thanks for thinking of me though.~ I am always passively interested in new opportunities.
5. I am passionate about developer tools and abstractions so people who don't want to think about pipelines or networks or other infrastructure don't have to.
6. C is a poor first language.
7. Redis is not a persistent datastore.
8. Elasticsearch is persistent, but shouldn't be your source of truth.
9. bash is actually pretty nice if you upgrade your default install to Bash 4 or Bash 5. It has associative arrays like modern languages.
10. The sunken cost fallacy definitely applies to software engineering. Don't be afraid to pivot if it's not working for you.
11. You should not attempt to use your OLAP database for OLTP operations to get around locking issues on your main database. The problem is your main database.