This is a love letter to @temporalio. Not because of the product (which powers a big chunk of @Macroscope's infrastructure and we love), but because of a tiny purple tardigrade. A few months ago I spoke at Temporal’s Replay conference in SF. Afterwards, I grabbed a swag bag on the way out. Inside was a plush tardigrade. I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know what a tardigrade even was before this. Though it was mythical? Wtf does it even have to do with Temporal. I still don’t know. That plush somehow became my almost-2-year-old son’s most prized possession. He carries it everywhere. Sleeps with it. Calls it “tar-da-grade,” which is remarkable considering that’s about 25% of his vocabulary. A few months later, disaster struck. One of our dogs chewed the tardigrade to pieces. Our son was devastated. “Where’s tardigrade?” “He’s… at the doctor.” I tried superglue surgery before realizing maybe glue fumes and toddler bedtime weren’t an ideal combination. I searched everywhere online but couldn’t find another one. So Sunday night I sent a slightly ridiculous message to our Temporal AE, Zac Bischoff, asking if there was any chance he could help a desperate dad. The next day, not one but TWO replacement tardigrades showed up at my office. Durable execution ftw. Thank you Zac, and thank you Temporal. You made a 2yo happy (albeit somewhat oblivious) and a father even happier.