Document: WM-047                                                 P. Webb
Category: Announcement                                        2021.01.03

                           New year, who dis?

Abstract

   Time is a flat circle

Body

   I’m not going to mention last year in number, I don’t even want to
   hear people with perfect vision talk about their eyes. We’re in a new
   year, Drumpf is going to be out of office in less than three weeks,
   and I have a new design for my blog…more like, LACK of design.

   1. Why

      I published a grand total of two posts last year. TWO. I was busy
      working on personal projects, dealing with this general malaise of
      uncertainty, and didn’t feel like dealing with the annoying
      process of updating my blog. Yuk. As a result though, I have
      several half-finished posts I can/will upload this year since my
      blog setup is extremely pared down.

      Being an architech (a designer who codes and vice-versa) is hella
      annoying. I am displeased by my design AND my code after a period
      of time, and then I detest it far too much. Maybe my experience
      and age has brought me to the point of realizing I don’t need the
      latest fancy UI blemishes features and tooling to get
      something online. I may update this to support TypeScript and
      imports because I quite enjoy that.

      This blog is also missing analytics. They were never on the
      front-end, but in the server. One of my many tasks this year is to
      overhaul my analytics platform[1] to make it robust enough to
      charge money for.

   2. What (now)

      I think adding automated deployments would be a nice
      quality-of-life feature and would definitely encourage me to write
      more. Currently, I have to upload a new text file to my server and
      refresh the pm2 job. In any event, this blog is the first step in
      realizing my personalOS[2] concept in concrete forms and I suppose
      this is the year to document everything as I go through it.

      You can check out the previous[3] incarnation of this blog if
      you’re curious to see what it was like.

      I think 2021 is gonna be big for data portability and flat files
      are the easiest way to do it. The fact that this blog is just a
      single JavaScript file and a folder full of text files (okay AND
      a couple Node.js modules 😒) is kind of neat…actually, that
      wouldn’t be a bad idea for socii[4] to implement. Maybe I’ll
      relaunch that soon. We’ll see. 🕸