My favorite doctor appointments are the ones where I wait forever, then the doctor comes in and says “After looking at your file, we can’t do anything until we run some tests. Schedule those and come back later”. /sigh

Indie Hacking

I have a tendency to be consumed by a niche interest or hobby every now and then. In the past it’s been disc golf, counter strike, yo-yoing, hot sauces, coffee, apologetics, and even card magic. Now I’m introducing the latest interest that my free-time has fallen victim to: indie hacking. What is Indie Hacking? Despite having “hacking” in the name, indie hacking is not nearly as nefarious as it seems. It does not involve late night attempts to crack the access code to a terminal while 80s synth wave music surges in the background.

Using Tiny Theme Microhooks to make your homepage display a reverse chronological list of long-form articles, grouped by year

I’ve been feeling like my home page wasn’t what I really wanted people’s first experience with my blog to be. I want people to be able to get a high-level overview of what I write about and what my interests are. I admire other blogs that just have a list of long-form articles, so I decided to update my home page to work similarly. Check out my new home page at weidok.

Currently eating Chick-fil-A on a picnic blanket in the parking lot of a Barnes & Noble. I love Saturdays.

Street Corner

Today I found myself in the downtown area of an old, little rural Ohio town. Surrounded by brick buildings, with a large, antiquated concrete community bank on the opposite corner. I stopped in at a local Chinese takeout place with my family for lunch. We ordered our food, and were told the customary “10 minutes”. While waiting for them to prepare our food, I stepped out onto the corner with my daughter.

It was… unremarkable. Another typical Ohio day in a quaint Ohio town.

But doing unremarkable things with a one year-old can suddenly make them remarkable.

I recently started a tradition of working from a different coffee shop each Friday. Today’s Pumpkin Pie Latte was a nice complement to deep work ☕

A coffee mug sitting on a wooden table with a laptop on the right edge of the frame.