I’ve just celebrated one year living in Ireland. I remain thrilled and grateful to be here and am setting down roots.

Since moving here, I changed my domain name from novapatch.is to novapatch.ie. I am in Ireland after all and not in Iceland.

In June, I presented Queer Localization at LocWorld55 in Dublin, and in October I’ll present State of the Regex 2026 at the Unicode Technology Workshop (UTW) in Nancy, France. I’m also drafting a technical proposal to standardize Unicode Grapheme Cluster Properties.

After completing twelve monthly 100 km rides with Randonneurs USA (RUSA) and earning the P-12 award in June 2025, I immediately started riding twelve monthly 200 km rides with Audax Ireland in order to earn the RRTY award, with plans to complete it by riding the Mick Byrne 200 in the Wicklow Mountains later this month.

Updated: 3 July 2026