Posts about ipplm
A pandemic story, or, what I learned working with nuclear fusion
As promised, here's a post on the story of my time at IPPLM - the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, where I worked for the last almost-three-years. Past tense, because since September I've successfully found remote work as a Python software developer at a large pharmaceutical company. Speaking of... I don't think I can say as much as I'd hoped about the projects we're working on, but, suffice to say, I think they have some real potential for helping people with neurodegenerative diseases. So I'm still trying to tackle one of the Large Problems, just... another one, and more so from a backend/support angle.
While writing this, I realized that this story was also deeply intertwined with the story of the global COVID-19 pandemic, because that turned the whole situation on its head. I thought about separating the two, but decided instead to embrace it and tell it whole rather than in pieces. So, beware, this is going to get long. To alleviate that, I've broken it up more than usual and have placed the major takeaways in specifically formatted sections throughout.
With that disclaimer in place... onto the story!
Mid-2022 Update
I thought I'd give a quick update on some recent happenings.
Firstly, and most importantly, and I'm still a little shocked that this actually happened - we got married! :)
With that, and since there's nothing more beautiful in life than symmetry, we've decided to both take a combo surname. Thus, the About page has had a minor text update :)