psychiatric hospital: ~ six weeks (2026.01 - 2025.11)

jail: ~ four weeks (2023.08 - 2023.07)

mental health facility: ~ one week (2021.03)

patience

the tenuousness of freedom

the lack of due diligence, oversight, and accountability in the mental health system

a person can survive 30+ days on water alone

the spectrum and extremes of mental health

how underappreciated and overworked public defenders are

how broken our social system is, especially health care

survival and resourcefulness

resilience through hardship

empathy for people on the margins

the toll of exposure on mental and physical health

the inhumanity of the drug/fentanyl crisis

old man winter shows no mercy

a clear sense of what matters

mexico: león (2024.04 - 2024.03)

peru, bolivia, paraguay & argentina: lima, cusco, la paz, buenos aires (2024.03 - 2023.11)

mexico: guadalajara, león (2023.06 - 2023.01)

mexico: san cristóbal de las casas, guadalajara, guanajuato (2022.12 - 2022.06)

mexico: san cristóbal de las casas, ciudad de méxico (2021.08 - 2021.04)

dominican republic: las terrenas (2018.09 - 2018.07)

a more holistic, slower way of life

the importance of family

poor communication hinders

less red tape helps incubate culture and small local businesses

homelessness is less rampant and visceral in latin cultures

buses are awesome

laws are more like guidelines lol

abuelas have that food game on lock

an appreciation for public amenities in the usa (libraries, parks, facilities, infrastructure, etc.)

provide thorough code reviews with an emphasis on iteration

refactor a number of entrenched components in order to enable a requested feature or fix an outstanding bug while minimizing breaking changes to existing apis

adapt third-party component libraries to support undocumented use-cases

participate in establishing best practices for frontend development with a focus on component composition that is fairly formulaic in implementation and resulted in code that was more straightforward to reason about

participate in sprint planning and issue prioritization

collaborate with teammates on problems where unobvious or unique solutions were required

provide clients with a simpler less error-prone purchase flow

revive an abandoned and brittle nextjs codebase

stabilize repository via typescript, more comprehensive e2e tests, simpler environment/dependency management, and a modernized palette of development scripts for a streamlined workflow

migrate from shopify api to dutchie plus api for a smoother cannabis shopping experience

resolve outstanding wcag 2.1 level aa and ada title iii accessibility lawsuit

empower clients by simplifying their operations in a tightly regulated industry

improve experience around order creation/management

collaborate with teammates on monthly milestones

identify, describe, and patch bugs

maintain, design, and implement react forms/inputs

maintain, design, and implement react hooks

maintain and refactor legacy react components

collaborate with teammates towards providing clients with a flexible and reliable platform for assisting workers out in the field

identify, describe, and patch bugs

maintain and integrate bluetooth hardware for cordova ios extension

design and implement a robust component for marking-up/annotating images on the fly

maintain, design, and implement a shared react components library

begin refactor of core app functionality towards improved readability/testability by way of redux-saga