Welcome to twindad.dev. Yes, I’m starting a blog in the year of our lord 2026. Maybe a little silly, but in an effort to spend less time consuming “content” and more time developing my thoughts and introspecting, here we are.

Where to start? I suppose an introduction is in order.

My name is Nick. I live in Sacramento, CA with my wife and twin daughters, who are three years old this month! And I’ve been a software engineer for almost exactly 10 years - not working for startups or Big Tech, but rather in the relatively unknown “civic tech” sector. These are a small group of companies who make most or all of their money from federal contracts, broadly focused on “making government services better.”

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