Weekly Notes 2025.13

2025-04-06 2 min read

Saturday night/Sunday morning I didn’t sleep well, and had a few odd health symptoms. I ended up going to prompt care on Sunday, and was put on antibiotics.
Monday, though I was feeling overall fine, I worked from home. It happened to be a day where I had a substantial number of meetings, and I can take them just as easily from my home video conferencing setup as I can in the office.
The rest of the work week was mostly uneventful, thankfully. The weather dipped again this week, and by mid- to late- week it was again on the cooler side for Spring.
Saturday I finished and submitted my taxes, to ensure that I had everything completed before the deadline. This was one of the easier years in recent memory, thankfully!
On Saturday afternoon I also played RuneScape for the first time in a while, including a little skilling, and playing through the Contact! quest line. I eventually want to finish all of the in-game quests so that I can follow new storylines when they are released, but I don’t spend much time playing, so it’s going to take me a while…
Saturday afternoon/evening I decided to watch The Imitation Game (movie) about Turing and the Enigma machine. I’ve seen clips online for years, and finally dedicated time to watch the entire movie. Overall, I enjoyed it, and would recommend it to others!
While watching the movie, I also spent a little time fixing links on my sister’s website. I converted it to a static site for her a few months ago, but had not done an exhaustive review of internal links, and earlier this week I realized that some pages didn’t navigate correctly (thanks to a 404 seen on GoatCounter!).
I spent a little time looking for my old Facebook and Instagram posts today, with the hopes of adding them to my website. Alas… I no longer have the exports that I downloaded when I shuttered my accounts.
This afternoon I will probably mow my lawn, for the first time this season. The grass is getting just tall enough that it’s time to even everything out, and even though it’s still on the cool side, I’m ready for the lawn to look nicer.

2025-04-03

About a week ago, I set up a new RSS feed in my feed reader, which is tied to a GitLab-based project I want to keep up to date on. So now, instead of via email, I can comfortably skim through release notes for the product in the same way I catch up on news, blogs, etc. 🎉

Weekly Notes 2025.12

2025-03-30 1 min read

This week is even lighter (on content) than last week!
Early in the week, I finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Overall, very interesting read, and I’d definitely suggest it to others!
At work, we released a new product documentation website that I’ve been lightly involved in, based on Docusaurus, a FOSS project from Meta that I’ve been pretty impressed with.
- We built this in a very similar way to how I deploy my own website: markdown files in a git repo, with a build & deploy pipeline on push to AWS (S3 + CloudFront). I’ve been pretty happy with the overall design!
Personally, I’ve spent some more time playing piano again this week, and even started working on learning some new songs!

2025-03-29

I wish I still had a copy of my original MySpace and Facebook profiles and posts. Not because of anything overly interesting, but because I often feel like there is a whole portion of my youth and early adulthood that is just “missing”, aside from some photos, even though I was online. :(

2025-03-29

Saturdays are (once again) perfect days for relaxing on the couch with a cup of coffee while updating my various computers & servers (both local and remote), and reflecting on the past week. ☕

2025-03-27

It’s interesting, and somewhat unsettling, seeing photos from 5 years ago surfaced in memories. 5 years ago today I had recently pivoted to remote work for an indeterminate amount of time due to Covid-19, and apparently was working on improving my video conferencing setup, which is pale in comparison to the system I use when taking calls from home today!

Weekly Notes 2025.11

2025-03-23 2 min read

I don’t have much to report on from work this week. I was in-office every day, and ended up doing some remote work on Saturday/Sunday too to catch up on an issue.
Part of my work for the week included getting back involved in a software project that I’ve worked on historically, but have not had as much time for in the past few months.
Over the weekend, when not working, I listened to this month’s ATP Member’s Special, which was all about both why the three hosts have websites, and how they create their respective sites.
- I won’t spoil it, as this podcast is intended to be a perk for members who support the show, but I did have two takeaways: I have a website for similar reasons to the hosts, and my posting setup is simplistic by comparison!
On Sunday, I became curious to see if I could get screenshots of not only what this website looked like over the years, but also what other websites I worked on looked like. This involved using the Internet Archive’s Wayback machine, and I was surprised to find just how far back their database ran!
- I added some of the screenshots for this website to my About page, for those interested.
- At some point, I’ll post images of how I got started in web development, but I haven’t decided the place or the format yet.

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