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Last day at Infinity Interactive; joined Natera as Staff Software Engineer. Updates now/then/upcoming to reflect the job change and past events. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title: Eric in the Past
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This page is all about what I have done. As things roll off the [now page](/now), they'll show up here. It was last updated on February 28, 2026.
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## What I finished building
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- **LocallyGrown.net Migration** (2025) — A massive six-month project migrating a farmers market platform from dying Rails 3 infrastructure to modern SvelteKit. 70+ farmers markets, $1.3 million in annual sales, and a complete rewrite that touched every part of the system. [The whole story is in my blog series](/posts/locallygrown-origin-story/).
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- **[Random Recipe Project](https://www.youtube.com/@RandomRecipeProject)** — A YouTube cooking series with 50+ episodes exploring recipes from everywhere: video game tie-in cookbooks (Skyrim, Dragon Age, Fallout, Star Trek), vintage classics (Betty Crocker, Julia Child, Galloping Gourmet), modern favorites (Kenji Lopez-Alt, Moosewood), and even 600-year-old medieval recipes.
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- **Kestrel's Nest Federation** — Built out my self-hosted social media presence on YunoHost: Mastodon, Pixelfed, BookWyrm, Castopod, Gitea, and this blog. All running on a DigitalOcean droplet I've upgraded twice since 2021.
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- **BookWyrm for YunoHost** — Contributed the BookWyrm integration package now used by other YunoHost deployments.
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## What I finished reading
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Recent reads (see my full [BookWyrm shelf](https://books.kestrelsnest.social/user/eric/books/read) for the complete list):
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- *I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom* by Jason Pargin (2024)
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- *The Armageddon Protocol* by Dan Moren (2024) — completing the Galactic Cold War series
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- *All Souls Lost* by Dan Moren (2023)
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- *Bookshops & Bonedust* by Travis Baldree (2023)
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- *Antimatter Blues* by Edward Ashton (2023)
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- *Mickey7* by Edward Ashton (2022)
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- *The Kaiju Preservation Society* by John Scalzi (2022)
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- *Sea of Tranquility* by Emily St. John Mandel (2022)
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- The complete [Galactic Cold War](https://dmoren.com/writing/galactic-cold-war/) series by Dan Moren — spy thrillers across multiple star systems. Each story better than the last.
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- [Paper Girls](https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/paper-girls) — time travel adventure with kaiju tardigrades. The artwork will stick with me.
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- All of Martha Wells' [Murderbot Diaries](https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm) — a sentient security robot navigating human society. [Deeply relatable](https://www.tor.com/2022/06/21/murderbot-an-autistic-coded-robot-done-right/) as an autistic adult.
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## What I finished playing
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- [The Outer Worlds][outer worlds] from Obsidian — darkly humorous anti-corporate science fiction. Short but loved every minute. (Now playing the sequel!)
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- [The Dragon Age series](https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki) from BioWare — replayed the entire series straight through. My favorite game series for world building and storytelling.
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- [Elder Scrolls Online](https://www.elderscrollsonline.com) — caught up on all solo content. Found a good guild to socialize with.
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## What I finished watching
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- All episodes of [Taskmaster][taskmaster] [on YouTube][taskmaster youtube]. Nothing has lifted my spirits quite like this show.
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## What I finished working on
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- **Infinity Interactive** (2013–2026) — More than ten years, starting as a developer and growing into VP of Technology. Shaped technical strategy across dozens of client engagements, built and led a talented team, and learned more about myself as both an engineer and a leader than I thought I had left to learn. Left to join Natera.
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## Events attended
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- **Wild Rumpus 2025** — Athens' big outdoor Halloween parade festival
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- **Inuhele 2026** (January 23–25) — Atlanta's annual Tiki Weekend. On staff.
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- **CONpossible 2026** (February 6–8) — Costuming Track Director. Theme: "Through the Faerie Ring."
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- **The B-52's Farewell Concert** (January 2023) — in Athens, where it all started
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[taskmaster]: https://taskmaster.fandom.com/wiki/Taskmaster_Wiki
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[taskmaster youtube]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5C7yaO3RVuOgwP8JVAujQ
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[outer worlds]: https://outerworlds.obsidian.net/en/enter
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