Zachary Watkins

Articles Tagged: life ​

  • Why I (still) do side projects

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    We have 3 kids under 8 and it’s hard to find time to do things for myself. They come first. If I thought that doing side projects didn’t help them at all, then I wouldn’t do it. Time is much harder to find these days and I think much differently about why I’m working on a side project than I did at first. I thought that was worth sharing here.

  • Github preserved my WordPress code on film in the Arctic

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    It’s old news, but on February 2, 2020 (02/02/2020) Github preserved a snapshot of every active public repository. This code was compressed as individual TAR files, QR-encoded, and then preserved in film. They believe the preservation process will allow the code to be preserved in this state for 1,000 years.