I’ve been focusing my spare time on what projects I’m working on and organizing them to see just how much time I’m spending on them. Some projects are pet projects, like Bookends. Other projects are small bets like BoardSearch, which I believed was going to be more
oof, I am writing this reluctantly and after a frustrating few minutes. I try to write once a week or so but some times when I log on to write, I get distracted by notifications like “update a theme” or “update multiple plugins” and I will forget to write about
As the weekend approaches, I have been considering setting up a simple tracker to publicly showcase my current projects, along with their associated costs and revenue (sometimes referred to as profit and loss). I am doing this as a way to publicly document my progress and overcome my fear of
I was setting up a new repo where I’m hoping to capture a list of projects that I’ve been working on, as an on-going list. I got curious about what the simplest way to order these projects would be where the oldest project would be number 1 and
If you’ve ever used the CUID library in your JavaScript projects, you may have noticed that almost every generated ID contains a lot of zeros. This can be confusing, especially if you’re not sure what the zeros represent or why they’re there. In this post, we’ll
Today, Substack launched Notes, which might or might not be a Twitter killer. While browsing my Substack subscriptions and reading through them, I noticed a pattern. Every popular blog has a theme or topic they cover, and there’s hardly any deviation from it. For me, that’s tough. I
This new Netflix series is amazing! I’m 4 episodes in and I just can’t stop watching it.
This morning in Portland the fog makes the old trees look haunted
I write this as a sort of marker for myself in the future to see how this will turn out. I use PanelBear analytics for some of my projects and over the weekend, I logged into check on the analytics when I saw a notice about PanelBear shutting down and
In the past few months, whenever I’ve run into a new technology or platform I want to try, I try to make something using this. This started mainly with Cloudflare technologies like Workers and DNS stuff but now has turned into small projects that offer a bit of practicality
I’m currently spending a few hours on the weekends working on Bookends, the project has been moving along slowly. The past few days, I’ve had thing looming thought on my mind about how to import the millions of books available through OpenLibrary that I will use as the
Last Wednesday night and into Thursday, we got a bunch snow in Portland. Some measurements on the news said it was around 10-11 inches of snow. Around my house, it looked to be about 5-7 inches and outside our house, all the roads were covered in white. It was a