Journal Entries

Full into the “making it simpler by making it more complicated” phase.

I am starting a new SvelteKit project this morning. I’ve always loved the ergonomics in this ecosystem.

Tehlu, help me. I’m already a bit unhappy with the design of my website. I am thinking about simplifying it a lot to focus on content. Isn’t that how I started?

The last seven or so days were the week of weeks, but I’m definitely optimistic about starting this next one with good news coming from my mom.

Big day. My mom goes in for brain surgery this afternoon. I’m choosing to assume that everything will be fine. That’s okay, right?

I was told that 2021 would not be worse than 2020.

I’ve bought way too many domains lately. There is no way I’m going to be able to get to all of these ideas.

I expected that I would have a lot of time to write during my break here at the end of the year, but that’s not really been the case. Not been in the right headspace for that kind of, though.

Decided to take the morning off from hacking on my website to hash out some app UI ideas that have been knocking around in my head over the break.

Early morning hat-tip to my neighbor, who is also up ridiculously early.

I’m having one of those mornings where I got up to write, but I’m distracting myself with programming because writing is hard.

I spent a big chunk of the day yesterday sketching and doodling, which I used to do a lot but can’t ever seem to find the time to do these days.

Waking up early to hack on your website a bit is an okay way to spend Christmas Eve, right?

Taking a break from working on my website for the evening, even though its in a half-weird state.

At least for this morning, I’m feeling pretty good about how this design is all coming together.

My awake time has been shifting earlier and earlier lately. It’s not a big deal during the pandemic since I can’t go out and see friends, but being wide awake at 4 am doesn’t seem very normal.

It’s been fun waking up each morning and making tiny little improvements to something. My day job requires me to continually think about the big picture, which I do like, but it’s nice just to get into code and hack on one problem for a short time.

I woke up early to mess around using faasd as a way to add Webmentions to my website. I’m having a lot of fun in this plumbing phase, but I’m also looking forward to getting back to design.

First snow of the year!

I had a video meeting this afternoon with three, yes three, levels of bosses. Pre-2020 Jeremy would have cringed at the mere thought of this, but it was the highlight of 2020 Jeremy’s week. I may require more human interaction.

Okay, I’ve wrapped the final issue with using Caddy for short URLs. The server will now reload whenever there is a new short URL added to my website. I need to do a full write-up on this simple process.

If all goes according to plan, this should be my first POSSE’d note from my website to Mastadon.

Now that I have a strategy for short URLs, I’m going to get started on syndicating my notes onto Mastadon. After this, maybe I should stop procrastinating by continuously coding and start writing, which is why I got my website started in the first place.

Getting my own, personal URL shorten going. I feel like this is a good first-step for getting the stuff that I create onto the IndieWeb.

I am adding some old travel stories to the website. They aren’t very good, but I spent a lot of time on them, so it nice that they will see the light of day.

I made a quick little script to quickly post notes to my website from the command-line. I don’t make enough little, one-off, helper tools for myself.

First post from the new codebase! I’m really enjoying how I’ve got the flow of data going through this website.

It’s comforting to be back among English-speaking brethren.

DAR ✈ AMS

Being here in Tanzania with spotty internet connections, this cloud computing thing seems like a terrible idea.

Nothing says “long flight to Europe” like Nescafé.

First meal back in the States: Basil Hayden Bourbon.

Slow internet is slow.

I need more doner kebab in my life.

It is sobering to be told by an Italian that your English is “not so good”.

One unexpected perk of being in Europe is seeing your friends’ drunk tweets as they happen first thing in the morning.