I was skimming old blog articles and realized it has been a while since I've done small posts. Some quick updates:
- I separated from my job in April, so I have my shingle out and am now looking for new work. Maybe given my feelings on recent "AI" trends I'm looking for a new career.
- I procrastinated my job search by spending a week cleaning my house and then hosting my first Thunder party in too long.
- I procrastinated my job search by having a lot of fun building new features for my book club's site. Maybe I'm not entirely done with my career, I just need someone to trust my creativity. Also, I had to migrate the site to a different backend. Tech debt touches everything.
- Speaking of tech debt, I procrastinated my job search yesterday by migrating my entire blog from Jekyll to Lume. I was tired of Ruby gem Dependabot warnings that never felt like they mattered to me, and I was tired of a preview experience that required a lot of WSL shenanigans. I've become a big fan of Lume as a very powerful static site generator. (I'm doing some pretty complex fun things in that Book Club site.) It's nice to have good Tags pages again.
- Portless has some Windows quirks but is handy enough to forgive them.
- News of my separation from my job reached me in the middle of my vacation. It feels weird that has happened twice now. I know it is just business, but it felt deeply personal, especially given an end date that coincided with my birthday weekend. I spent the first half of my vacation having an incredible time at Disneyland. Disneyland kept asking me questions about if I have enough creativity in my life. I kept asking questions why Disney doesn't have enough creativity in its apps and if I could find a way to explore that professionally. I think I was going to be looking for new challenges this year even if my job hadn't forced me to consider it the hard way between an incredible week at Disneyland and a lovely week on JoCoCruise 2026, both with a lot of great friends doing awesome things.