Chill song for relaxing

Bookends, for fun and for learning

During the months of May and June, I worked on a hobby project with a friend of mine called “Decide”. During development, I learned a couple of new things, technical and personal things about myself. Technically, I learned some React based on Next.js. If you’re about to start

Home, is where I want to be

I now have a favorite 80s song that I can listen to on repeat!

The City & The City

This is a weird one. This post is about not being able to finish this audiobook. I’ve been on a good streak with audiobooks in the past few months, finishing about 2-3 a month. But…I’m not sure what’s happening with this one. So far, I’ve

Dividends as income

I wanted to write about this for awhile but I can find a good starting point so today I just sat down and decided to type out what my thoughts are about this topic. What are dividends?  In this post, I’m referring to the stock market’s term “dividends”

Mid-year check-in, also I'm 28 now

Yesterday, I turned 28. This is the perfect time to reflect on the first half of 2018 and also my past year since I turned 27. When 2018 started, I decided not to start with any resolutions as they most often don’t get fulfilled. I wanted to mostly observe

Preview of Free Press

Below is a screenshot of the most recent changes I’ve made to free press to get a single post showing. It’s missing author, date, and other important links but I’m working on that next. I’ve spent maybe 15-20 minutes just trying to get the line-height correct,

Getting started with local Wordpress development and a log for free-press development

Over 2 months ago, I wrote about starting work on my own theme. This has been slow going but I have actually learned quite a bit even for being a thing put on the back-burner for awhile.  First, local WordPress development is easily doable on OSX using MAMP. After installing

Chrome console output notes

Below are some cool console.log tricks that I recently have been learning about. Add CSS using %c Change Styles: use the %c formatter to style everything that follows. console.log('%c Hello World', 'color: blue;'); console.log('%c Hello %c World', 'color:

Mid-May update

In the past 2-3 months, I’ve been writing way more code and relatively more blog posts than I had before starting this blog. This has been mainly due to my goal of being consistent about things that interest me. I’m writing this post because I haven’t posted

Apps I use to listen to audiobooks

I’ve posted about a couple of books I’ve recently finished by listening to them as audiobooks and I wanted to share how I go about doing this since buying audiobooks can be pricey (since you can’t find them used or cheaply on Amazon). Last year, I subscribed