Daniel Rozenberg · What am I doing now?

Last updated: April 22, 2026

Big Updates

Aiden turned 1 in January. My parents came to celebrate with us. We didn't host a birthday party for him because 1st birthdays are really for the parents, not the child, and I chose to skip it. I will probably host a party for his 2nd birthday. His birthday gift from me was to have him try ice cream for the first time; you can guess how that went! He's been walking and running for a while and continues to push the boundaries of my baby-proofing abilities. We've been doing swim lessons once a week; they're more like floating lessons for now. Hopefully he will start moving some limbs soon instead of just chilling. For Halloween we dressed as Gomez and Pubert Addams, the father and baby from the Addams Family.

I became a U.S. citizen in December. The ceremony was short. It appears that they no longer play “God Bless the U.S.A.” at the end of the naturalization ceremony. I already had the opportunity to vote in a local election, and another one is coming in a week, and then again in May and in June. This country votes a lot.

Hosting

I hosted a New Year's Eve party at my place, the first party I hosted at night since Aiden was born. Over the past year I tried to host slightly later, slightly louder parties to test his reaction. During that party he went to bed at his regular bedtime and slept through the night while we revelled. I'm happy to know he can handle it! I also hosted my birthday party in February in a similar fashion, though not lasting well past midnight.

House guests shoutouts: Yev; Ryan; Adam; Omer; Mom and dad; Aapo; Matěj

Travel

I miss it.

Hobbies

I continue to make snail-paced progress on the video game I mentioned during the last update, Atoll, a city-builder/colony-sim set on a sinking island. I didn't set out to make a game about climate change; it happened by accident, after receiving feedback on an early prototype from my friend Gafni. I'm still struggling with carving out time for this particular project since it's such a big time commitment, and I always get distracted by objectively more important tasks and by other things that should not distract me as much.

I continue to use my 3D printer and various power tools I get access to at Google to childproof my apartment. Using sheets of transparent, dark acrylic, I was able to assemble various protective barriers and doors for things I don't want Aiden to play with, such as the stationery and the bookcase. At some point I noticed a sharp corner on something and 3D printed a soft corner for it. As I was installing it, I cut myself on the sharp corner. Better me than him, I guess!

I bought a jogging stroller at the behest of Kali, and we took Aiden for our first run last week. Kali was the one pushing the stroller; I don't think I'm capable of dealing with it just yet. Aiden couldn't stop smiling until he fell asleep halfway through our run.

I wrote yet another Firefox extension; this one is for speed reading.

Media

Highlights

Watched Adolescence. I can't remember the last time a show made me cry. It's only four episodes; I recommend watching it without reading anything about it beforehand
Watched Project Hail Mary. A great mix of hard sci-fi, humour, and high budget. It will make you emotional about a pet rock
Played Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown. A very nostalgic experience, both for its subject matter (Voyager aired 25 years ago!) and for the gameplay that felt very much of the same time. My only issue with it is that the game is basically a recreation of the show instead of having original content. I think it could have been better if it had a mix of missions that reference the show and new ones that “filled in the gaps” between the episodes

let's talk about the bold stuff!

Books: The Left Hand of Darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin; The Ten Thousand Doors of January / Alix E. Harrow; Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto / Kōhei Saitō; Eden / Stanisław Lem
Movies: Flow; Weapons; KPop Demon Hunters; Summer of 85; Set It Up; The Great Dictator; Superman (2025); Elio; M3GAN 2.0; Giant Little Ones; Metropolis; Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; War for the Planet of the Apes; Wicked: For Good; Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes; Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale; Wake Up Dead Man; Saving Grace; Keeping Mum; One Battle After Another; The Muppet Show (2026); The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More; April and the Extraordinary World; The Wild Robot; TRON: Ares; Zootopia 2; 28 Years Later; 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple; Moana 2
TV: Silo; Big Mouth; Futurama; The Simpsons; Bob's Burgers; Lazarus; Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man; Black Mirror; Boots; Heated Rivalry; Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake; Star Trek: Starfleet Academy; The War Between the Land and the Sea; Pluribus; Family Guy; American Dad!; Letterkenny; And Just Like That…; Murderbot; For All Mankind; Death Note; Fallout
Video Games: Replicube; The Rocky Horror Video Game; DOGWALK; Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons; No Man's Sky; Islanders New Shores; Blue Prince; Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Theatre: Hadestown; Madama Butterfly; Maybe Happy Ending

Soon

Taking Aiden for his first overnight trip this weekend, at Brendan's house upstate
My parents, brother, and his family are, hopefully, visiting in two weeks for my nephew's bar mitzvah