In Action

Last week I went to the west coast for the Kotlin at Google summit, an internal conference. That was pretty cool as a Kotlin beginner. To be a little more prepared, I read Kotlin in Action cover to cover on the plane there. I stayed at Google's new Bay View campus. The conference was at the Sunnyvale office a few miles away, and one of the mornings I biked there along the Bay Trail. The whole place has a surreal atmosphere, the landscape is beautiful and the architecture has all these weird megastructures (especially at nearby NASA Ames). The Google offices in the Valley are certainly great places to work, but so remote. Everything in the South Bay is so spread out.

I'm excited about more Kotlin adoption at work, it seems like the good stuff about Java without the bad stuff about Java. And it seems fun to work in. Java's the world's okayest programming language, widely useful, but pretty low in fun.

Travel also gave me a bit of time to read Goldenhand, a recent entry in Garth Nix's "Old Kingdom" series.

The next few weeks my schedule is a bit shifted early to deal with early camp pickup. Julie's handling the mornings.