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Monday night at 4pm I was spending time with my girlfriend for the last few moments of her trip when I received a phone call from a “Private Number”. She was about to head to the airport when I got wide-eyed and said I needed to answer a call. I knew this was likely to be a call informing me that a pair of lungs had been found for me, and I was right. The Coordinator told me it wasn’t for sure, and that by 8pm they would have a decision on whether the lungs were for me. At 7pm I had a call with them confirming that this was the case. ...

Special thanks to @tombh for proofing this blog post! Edit 5/28: added a link to the repo and corrected the solver I used Did you know that LinkedIn has games? I sure as hell didn’t until my Dad showed me that they in fact have 5 (!) different games that you can play. One of them stood out to me as somewhat interesting, Queens: Solved Queens board ...

Hello! My name is Ryan Berger, I’m a 24-year-old software developer living in Seattle, WA. This is the first real post of my blog, and oh boy is it a doozy! To cut it short: in the coming months, I will be undergoing a bilateral lung transplant at the University of Washington. I have—since I was 13—known this was coming, but my lung function and blood tests show that I am not too far off from respiratory failure. My doctors have determined that I am in good shape and it is now time. ...