Every project folder I've built since 2014 carries the same name: Tacloban Regenesis. The name came before the work that lives inside it, and most of that work, in different forms, has been about the same thing.
In November 2013, when Typhoon Yolanda made landfall, I was a programmer in Manila. For a few hours I thought I had lost my father. I hadn't, but my aunt and uncle barely survived, their home was gone, and the stories that came afterward made staying at a desk in Manila feel less and less like an answer.