When you haven’t used your system for a while, the next best thing is to write about your system. I finally found a journaling system that works for me. All it takes is writing down five items each day to capture the important highs and lows of my life.

Starting with a shortcut, I pretty quickly found all the pieces of the puzzle. The hard part was unscrambling them. Sometimes the search felt like work but, as they apparently say in Latin, laborare est orare.

After spending time in a really friendly one, I decided forums are the best platform for communities. So, I replaced my community’s Mastodon instance with a forum. While the vision and values of the community haven’t changed, the platform has.

Everyone is too busy to read all the details. In the context of a job search, I have quick lures to draw people into reading my résumé and other material. Here, there are links to all the details of my professional life should anyone want it. Presenting this in layers communicates my professional identity in appropriate, relevant doses. Similarly, employers should have their own three-tier information cakes to tell their company story.

Yet another website revision, this time with Bridgetown, Ruby, and SCSS. Here’s how I added a new style, tag features, new link design, and more to my site. I love my website again.

Part public apology, part gentle nudge for whoever may be reading this to do something to make themselves feel better, and part documenting some of the tools that form the foundation of my wellbeing.

I’m now running my own private social media website for my friends.

What I learned (re)building my website in Astro.

My laptop and I have been through a lot together.

A guide for my personal weekly review process for reorganizing, clearing my plate, checking-in with myself, and re-aligning my goals.

An overview of how I use a brag document to list my accomplishments as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

A working list of places to go to when you are in Essaouira, Morocco.

An overview of how I use plain text accounting and beancount to manage my finances

A simple guide for how I use the note-taking tool Obsidian in my daily life and work as a Peace Corps Volunteer

How I setup and use a physical notebook for task management and to make sure nothing gets forgotten.

Useful guidelines for productive brainstorming sessions.

Exploring Tailwind instead of using CSS.

The importance and value small businesses get from having their own website.

We spent the day sorting baseball cards with the help of computer science.

A first pass macroeconomic explanation of why tech stocks are going down.

A shallow dive into what exactly APIs are.

A description of the internet in simple language.

My favorite email service got an update.

Exploring a new (to me) technology

Describing a simple and universal markup language.

How gaming can reinforce friendship.

Building my first Discord bot.

The release of Ubuntu 22.04.

My experience with using Internet Relay Chat for the first time.

My new split mechanical keyboard.