New site feature! I added a sidebar for recent microblogs. This will only appear on desktop, not mobile devices.
Weeknotes Vol. 2
My week summarized into 3 highlights, 2 discoveries, and 1 anticipation.
3 Highlights Eating in
My wife and I have a chronic problem with being unprepared when dinner time rolls around, so we often end up ordering food or going out. My belt and my bank statements would attest that this is not a good practice. But this week we did much better eating in for most of our meals. I found the Tasty app and have been using that to plan our meals each Saturday so we can pick up groceries on Sunday.
I updated the link styles on my blog:
- removed underlines from links for readability
- added a box-shadow animation when hovering links for enjoyability
I pushed changes to Fed Meetup this morning! Users can now save their searches and export results to a CSV file. My coworker is using it to plan group travel for his new team at NASA. It’s nice to see it still getting some use, and it may be getting more use in the near future!
Weeknotes Vol. 1
I’m on the couch, coffee in hand, excited to try a new format.
I actually have no idea what the true format will be, but I know that I am going to write weekly. The plan is to have a consistent format for these weeknotes, but I’m more concerned with actually doing the thing, so I’m starting without the format. Jump first, find a parachute later, right?
Bear with me while I sort things out for the first 5, 10, or 50 of these.
My latest attempt to be less distracted by my phone is printing articles on a piece of paper that I can fold up and carry in my wallet. Going to try to read these instead of using my phone and falling down the rabbit hole.
I just looked through all my old blog post ideas and drafts. There are some fun ideas I forgot about in there. There is one titled “Demustyfication” that has been a draft for a long time. I just can’t seem to get it where I want it, but it keeps tugging at me. I wrote about it back in April.
2024 Blog in Review
My first full year of blogging is in the books! Or should I say, in the internet archive? Check out this neat sitemap graph of my blog generated by the internet archive.
I can’t believe I’ve been doing this for over a year!
One thing that has become clear is I write more like a geyser than a waterfall. I spend most of my time dormant, and then have a sudden flurry of activity before going quiet again.
“Everything depends on everything and we don’t know anything!”
- my wife, while we decide on basement finishes
This perfectly describes software development.
My dad gave me his old 45 pound dumbbells so I:
- got excited
- made a list of the exercises I could do with them
- tried all the exercises
- crossed about half the exercises off my list because I can’t do them
45 pounds is heavier than I remember… Got some work to do. 💪