Chris Wiegman

Perhaps it's all the AI slop, perhaps it's something else, but my interest in anything tech related, including writing on my own site, is at an all-time low.

Given tech is my hobby and my work, this means my desire to do much of anything lately is pretty much non-existent and it... sucks.

I can’t believe it’s 2026 and I have to defend not automating some of my daily processes. Things like my morning routine allow me to both plan ahead and look back at yesterday’s work. If I was to automate that I would miss so many things. When I’ve had conversations about that, people literally think I’m crazy not to automate it anyway. It’s so weird.

I've worked in a lot of different tech stacks over the years. So far the worst to get started with is Apple Dev (Swift/SwiftUI/etc). Looking for _accurate_ documentation is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's so frustrating.

Happy Birthday Willie Nelson!

Tonight’s adventure: front-row seats to Brendan Hunt’s (Coach Beard in Ted Lasso) new show at the Steppenwolf. I can’t wait!

Summary of a convo yesterday:

Them: “Why don’t you want to be a tech exec again?”

Me: “Because I value my humanity.”

Them (dumbfounded): “But don’t you want to be rich????”

Me: *facepalm

It was a good weekend. We went to a Chicago Fire game yesterday (they won 5-0) and visited a friend in the hospital today.

Tomorrow we go back to work but it will be my first short week since getting back from Rome on 14 Feb. I really need the break.

I’ve been playing Valheim a bit but I inevitably quit when I get past the first biome as the game mechanics seem to just grind to a halt at that point.

I regret sharing my open roles on my LinkedIn profile. In the 3-or-so weeks since I started my account back up from my reset, and where I shared an open role, I’ve had over 4,000 DMs and connection requests.

I get it’s bad out there, but I couldn’t act on these if I wanted to (in that time our recruiting has booked me exactly 1 interview).

I really, really fucking hate this timeline.