So I did fall off on maintaining my site. However a lot has happened since I was able to put some time and effort into this site. I moved country, to be closer to my partner’s family. I also rejoined my previous job at the same time. We are also in the midst of house hunting. And the velocity of work has been a lot higher than I think anyone expected.

Oh, and we got a cat.

But, I have been plugging away at the site in the past week or so, and, as you can see, rebuilt the theme. I wanted to incorporate what I saw and liked from other blogs. Trying to keep this site simple, readable, but still my own space. I still have some dangling items to figure out. I ended up staying with Hugo, rather than moving to 11ty, or ghost. So I still have a high friction on writing and posting to the site I need to work out. However, I do think the site is in a much better place.

I have broken out posts into: posts for long form, focused topics. Notes, which are just quick updates or scattered thoughts. And Links, which will primarily be me finding something interesting I want to share, maybe a quote and a thought. I am hoping the latter two take off some pressure on what to write about.

I have also improved the blogroll, and made a proper shelf for right now blogs, books, and podcasts. I might expand it more to movies or other things.

The next big item I added, support for webmentions! Maybe I will get one someday.

The last big thing is I have also set up a [[digital garden]]. This is something like a centralized area of information. That way as topics come up I don’t feel as obligated to redefined them and I can keep the definition updated wherever they are mentioned.

Now, one thing to be clear about with this overhaul, I did use [[AI]] to help. This is an irksome topic in a lot of places, and I plan to make a deeper post about the reasoning there.

Anyway, that’s what I got for now.