New year, who dis?

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.

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 b̶l̶e̶m̶i̶s̶h̶e̶s̶ 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 platform1 to make it robust enough to charge money for.

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 personalOS2 concept in concrete forms and I suppose this is the year to document everything as I go through it.

You can check out the previous3 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 socii4 to implement. Maybe I'll relaunch that soon. We'll see. 🕸