- Data Grab by Ulisses Mejas & Nick Couldry for my non-fiction.
- It is an exploration of our modern digital world through a colonial lens.
- I am finding it very interesting and thought provoking.
+ Bit Tyrants by Rob Larson for non fiction.
River of Gods by Ian McDonald for fiction.
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Read so far in 2024
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Data Grab - Ulisses Mejas & Nick Couldry
Less is More - Jason Hickel
King Rat - China Mieville
Surely You Must be Joking Mr Feynman - Richard Feynman
- Hi all, welcome to the starting point for exploring my digital garden.
- I am just starting out so things will be sparse as I tend to and grow it.
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- I am finding the idea of a digital garden to be much more attractive then a traditional blog.
- It alligns with how I like to write, organize my information, and explore the web.
- So I am going to switch the site over to that structure and see where things go from there.
- I expect the structure to change over time as more information is added and I work out how I want to have it organized.
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- Books, what I am reading, why I love them so much.
- Just book stuff.
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- Some thoughts on time.
- I catch myself coming back to this subject pretty regularly.
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- I have been pondering a lot lately on the act of creation and of making things.
- Getting more in touch with that as I have been tinkering more and more.
- Building out the website for our wedding and other small projects.
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- I love to cook, however very much hate recipe websites.
- Too much extra stuff.
- I want to build a place to store and share my recipes without any of that.
- Will be added to the cooking page when I get it set up.
- For now it is just my thoughts on the activity.
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- Just starting to work to shift the structure of my website from chronological posts to a digital garden.
- Start here.
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Blog
Chronological stuff that I have written.
- Not adding to this as much with the focus more on the garden but if something is timely then will still be added as a blog post.
+ Not adding to this as much with the focus more on less time sensitive information, but if something is timely then will still be added as a blog post.
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index 2f67e3c..0b0748e 100644
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It is what I am making this site to be a part of.
+ Books, what I am reading, why I love them so much.
+ Just book stuff.
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Thoughts on how I spend my time
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+ Some thoughts on time.
+ I catch myself coming back to this subject pretty regularly.
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Making things
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+ I have been pondering a lot lately on the act of creation and of making things.
+ Getting more in touch with that as I have been tinkering more and more.
+ Building out the website for our wedding and other small projects.
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+
+
Cooking
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+ I love to cook, however very much hate recipe websites.
+ Too much extra stuff.
+ I want to build a place to store and share my recipes without any of that.
+ Will be added to the cooking page when I get it set up.
+ For now it is just my thoughts on the activity.
+
- Last updated: 2024-12-15
+ Last updated: 2025-01-08
Work
- Development is slow during peak.
- The whole team is spending so much time making sure that nothing breaks.
- Bug fixes and maintenance.
- It is a different pace than the rest of the year.
- Both more stressful in some ways, and less.
+ The madness of peak is over, we are figuring out our plans for development for the year.
+ May partially loose one team member for a few months for personal reasons,
+ so figuring out what we can accomplish and how we will allocate work with the reduced headcount.
Still keeping my eyes open for other opportunities.
Life
- We now have less than 6 months till our wedding.
- So many little ends to tie up.
+ Getting married this year!
+ Loose ends are starting to come together.
A fun process but a little overwhelming at times.
+ Working with a tailor on the suit top to go with my kilt.
Working to find the path that feels right for me career wise.
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I am so grateful for the community.
- Back to training regularly.
- There is a competition coming up in March that a bunch of us are going to try and make it to.
- Hoping to go for both Gi and No gi.
+ Training ramping up for the competition in March, looks like quite a few of us are going.
Learning
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Both similar in ways to Rust (focus on performance, strong type system), and completely different (still a runtime, much simpler).
Enjoying it so far, still very early days.
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+ Joined the Lean Web Club course for web development.
+ Have been muddling my way through on my own up to this point trying to just use HTML and CSS with most of the actual logic in the backend where I am more comfortable.
+ Figured it was time to learn all the stuff that browsers are capable of and how to make the best use of them.
+ They have come a long way and there is so much that you can do with just plain JS and no external dependencies.
+
Tinkering
Wedding website still under construction.
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Shifting my attention back to adding content to my personal website.
I have been having a bit of an ongoing moral crisis with the state of the tech industry at the moment.
- First I want to get my thoughts clarified and down in writing.
+ First I want to get my thoughts clarified and down in writing.
Then I want to see what I can do about it and how I can contribute to a user centric web.
+ My main projects at the moment are this website and the website for our upcoming wedding.
+ That one is private though so won't be shared.
+ Also I am building some custom keyboards for my brothers as groomsmen gifts.
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+ I am finding the idea of a digital garden to be much more attractive then a traditional blog.
+ It alligns with how I like to write, organize my information, and explore the web.
+ So I am going to switch the site over to that structure and see where things go from there.
+ I expect the structure to change over time as more information is added and I work out how I want to have it organized.
+