From d57145f548881b7a215e98312bc6cd97b6fa9a21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Awstin Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 07:16:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated now and uses pages --- posts/CanadianTariffs.html | 2 +- posts/Conundrum.html | 22 ++++++++++++------- posts/LetAmericaGo.html | 45 -------------------------------------- templates/Tak.html | 4 ---- templates/about.html | 1 - templates/now.html | 16 ++++++++------ templates/uses.html | 14 +++++------- 7 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 posts/LetAmericaGo.html diff --git a/posts/CanadianTariffs.html b/posts/CanadianTariffs.html index e90bb08..8f95454 100644 --- a/posts/CanadianTariffs.html +++ b/posts/CanadianTariffs.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ id: ct title: Canadian Tariffs previous: mm -next: lag +next: conundrum date: 2025-01-21 ---

Canadian Tariffs

diff --git a/posts/Conundrum.html b/posts/Conundrum.html index 7e67e54..46fb629 100644 --- a/posts/Conundrum.html +++ b/posts/Conundrum.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ id: conundrum title: Conundrum -previous: lag +previous: ct date: 2025-02-08 ---

Conundrum

@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ date: 2025-02-08 Laying there on the bed listening to the music letting my mind wander my thoughts came back to this. I have been having trouble finding motivation or interest lately. I dream and fantasize about working for people directly. - Building more skills and really mastering some aspects of software development to try and write software like proper craftsmen build furniture. + Building more skills and really mastering some aspects of software development to try and write software like proper + craftsmen build furniture. Something solid that lasts, something that people feel good about using. That means minimal dependencies, simple code, likely single function applications. It also means that I have to learn and implement a lot of things myself. @@ -40,10 +41,13 @@ date: 2025-02-08 I am not proud of the code that I write there. I was for the first time with a refactor and simplification that I did on my own time. It made the code easier to reason about, seperated the application state from UI rendering, simplified testing. - Co workers were very pleased, we all suspect that moving towards this proof of concept in our design will make our lives much easier. + Co workers were very pleased, we all suspect that moving towards this proof of concept in our design will make our + lives much easier. Management however saw nothing in it. - Whenever any of us take on a project like that, to improve the quality of the code it always has to be on our own time. - So without any space to do good work most of the time it is racing to hit deadlines and not being able to do work that we are proud of. + Whenever any of us take on a project like that, to improve the quality of the code it always has to be on our own + time. + So without any space to do good work most of the time it is racing to hit deadlines and not being able to do work + that we are proud of.

The less I code on my own time the more that lack of attention to detail at work eats away at me. @@ -52,7 +56,8 @@ date: 2025-02-08

This is a circuitous way of coming back around to the fact that we are kept busy. Needlessly so. - Taking time that could be used improving our lives, learning, growing, living, and just gobbling it up with work to enrich people that we will never meet. + Taking time that could be used improving our lives, learning, growing, living, and just gobbling it up with work to + enrich people that we will never meet. Not helping society, likely causing damage in all honesty. Consuming needless resources, crushing small businesses and third party sellers.

@@ -64,6 +69,7 @@ date: 2025-02-08 Time for hobbies, friends, any time of just doing nothing, sleep.

- I can't stand capitalism and its endless gluttony for more. - I am disgusted to be a part of this system, but don't have the energy required or the time to walk away at the moment in any sort of sustainable fashion. + I can't stand this endless focus on growth and gluttony for more. + I am disgusted to be a part of this system, but don't have the energy required or the time to walk away at the + moment in any sort of sustainable fashion.

diff --git a/posts/LetAmericaGo.html b/posts/LetAmericaGo.html deleted file mode 100644 index 11261d3..0000000 --- a/posts/LetAmericaGo.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -id: lag -title: Let America Go -previous: ct -next: conundrum -date: 2025-01-22 ---- -

Let America Go

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- With Trump now solidly re-installed as the president of America, what so many of us have feared has come to pass. - In his first days he took the country back years by rolling back all sorts of human rights, regulations, and protections. - He has not hit Canada with tariffs yet, though has still expressed that he plans to. -

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- America has been central to the lives of so many people in so many countries. - Even if you can avoid thinking about the country itself for a day, so much of what we do has to pass through their economy. - Silicon valley owns most large methods of communication, investments all pass through wall street, payments through Visa and Mastercard. - The US is the largest buyer of so much of what other countries export. -

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- So we have no choice but to pay attention, and have a lot of our lives and economies dictated by what is going on in the US. - I think that is a failing on all of our parts for allowing it to get to this point. - Now we rely on an unstable and unpredictable country for international stability. - Well I guess that we can predict that things will probably go against any sort of human rights, climate action, worker protections, human rights. - So it will likely only get worse. -

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- Whether tariffs are enforced or not the rest of the world needs to let America go as the center of every transaction, policy, or infrastructure. - Build stronger ties between the rest of us. - Infrastructure and businesses that don't rely on the US. -

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- They are not going to make anything better. - More CO2 will get put into the atmosphere, the tech companies will make their experiences worse, I suspect the beautiful natural world in the US is done for. - So we all need to be the bigger people in the room. - Do better to try and offset the horrible effect that it will have on our planet and our economies. - Help each other and the natural world to be as stable as possible through this time. -

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- Open our doors and arms to the wonderful people of the US that are persecuted, or just don't agree with the government and want to leave. - Ignore their government's raging and complaining if trade slows or their businesses suffer because we don't use them. - In some ways this seems like a tantrum, and sometimes we just need to let it play out and do our best to take care of ourselves and eachother. -

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- I don't have suggestions for exactly what to do, but for the last few days (the first of this new presidency) this is what has been on my mind. -

diff --git a/templates/Tak.html b/templates/Tak.html index 1ebda26..133f5f4 100755 --- a/templates/Tak.html +++ b/templates/Tak.html @@ -108,9 +108,5 @@ I am pleased with how the game turned out. I am working on other things at the moment but in the future I would like to do two more things with this game. I want to implement it online so that I can play with friends over the internet. - I would also like to try and develop an A.I. - agent to play the game. - I had this in mind when I was writing it so made sure that the GUI was disconnected from the actual mechanics behind the game. - This will hopefully make it easier to connect to an agent for training.

{% endblock %} diff --git a/templates/about.html b/templates/about.html index dbbeb46..016b875 100644 --- a/templates/about.html +++ b/templates/about.html @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@

I would like to do the same with more of life eventually. - Work, food, electricity. Try to make and fix things instead of buying or replacing them. That thought feels right.

diff --git a/templates/now.html b/templates/now.html index 5cab95e..659e832 100644 --- a/templates/now.html +++ b/templates/now.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ {% block content %}

- Last updated: 2025-03-27 + Last updated: 2025-04-08

Work

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Tinkering

- 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. - Then I want to see what I can do about it and how I can contribute to a user centric web. + Have been working mostly on the website for our wedding. + It has been a lot of fun, added magic links, more interactiviy both from the guest and admin side. + Menu selections have been the most recent thing as well as linking the admin page to Mailgun so that we can send out customized emails to groups of guests. + For now that is private as it contains personal information. + I am starting to think that it would be fun to rewrite and generalize more to an event planning and coordination tool.

- Have been spending most of my tinkering time on a private project. - Have learned a lot, still web development, using HTMX for speed. + There is a lot that I would do differently, and building and using it now has tought me a lot. + It is both a wonderful and terrible feeling looking back on past work and thinking that "I would do this completely differently". + It reminds me that I have learned a lot, but don't have the time currently to fully rewrite/redesign it.

Awstin diff --git a/templates/uses.html b/templates/uses.html index e8209e5..f77d2f2 100644 --- a/templates/uses.html +++ b/templates/uses.html @@ -33,10 +33,11 @@ Phone: Samsung Galaxy A20, got it used. Gets the job done.

  • - Keyboard: Built a Ferriss Sweep, looking at building another so that I can keep one at work and one at home. Has made such a difference to my comfort when typing. Kalih Choc blue switches. + Keyboard: Built a Ferriss Sweep with a 3d printed tenting system. + Have one for home and one for work, and they have made such a difference in the comfort of typing for long periods of time.
  • - Mouse: SteelSeries something, currently using a wired mouse, have a logitech MxMaster and logitech MxAnywhere but the logitech univesal receiver dongle does not work through the KVM so don't use them at home. On my list to see if I can figure that out but not a high priority as I don't use my mouse all that much. + Mouse: Logitech MxMaster at home, MxAnywhere at work
  • Raspberry Pis: I have 2 raspberry pis in use at the moment and 1 more that I have yet to decide what to do with. @@ -55,9 +56,6 @@
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