A recent podcast from 99% invisible nudged me to get Nate DiMeo’s book - The Memory Palace. I’ve always loved the Memory Palace podcast. Super intrigued to see how Nate carries over the suspense in written form. 🔗

Nothing to beat sunning on a calm and quite weekend morning with some steaming hot coffee. 🔗 ...

Built a Rewind page to nudge me to read my older posts. Interesting to see how my thought processes and writing has shifted over the years. This might also serve as a tool to fix any issues that might have crept in when I migrated over to Hugo. While at it, I also tweaked the archives page a bit to make it less dense.🔗

Most of my free time over the last few days has been spent trying to implement the comments section on this site. Something that would have been super straightforward on a regular CMS is not quite so for a static site. Initially I tinkered with the idea of side-loading the comments feature over to the fediverse. It worked okay but it did feel quite choppy. Looking around a bit, I decided to give ISSO a chance. It seemed to have all the features I was looking for and was reasonably easy to setup. As with most things tech though, I had quite some difficulty tweaking it to work the way I wanted it to. Taking a break and getting back to it after a few days, did get me to approach this from a different perspective and I think it’s super close to where I’d like it to be. ...

Absolutely loving the flexibility of fast-tweaking markdown files in GO. I’m far from being a programmer/developer, but with a dash of AI and some bare minimum logic sense, I’ve been able to build scripts to do a bunch of modifications on this site on the go. 🔗

M just received an invite for the CA-AEFM March'25 cohort. Long overdue! Adds a small wrench to our planning for the PCS next year but as Pappaji says - it’s a Happy problem! Super excited! 🔗

Not quite sure when or where I came across this open book - Maintenance: of everything. Fascinating read so far and I’m so glad I did save it in my quick notes whenever I did! 🔗

Got some decent progress on tweaking this portal. All hugo’d out for now though and a short break is overdue. Super slow weekend otherwise. Watched Moana 2. Meh. Not much story but decent visuals. Tragedy of sequels, maybe?

Moved over the syndication links in my posts to post-meta. The syndication icon only shows up if a valid link is present in the FrontMatter of a post. Once micro.blog picks up the feed, it’s currently set to auto publish to the fediverse on my GoToSocial (GTS) instance. On the backend, a GO script fetches the RSS feed from my GTS instance and saves the RSS feed item link and the corresponding link to my post in a JSON file. Another script quickly looks up which post’s FrontMatter needs to be updated for the syndication links in each post and updates the files as needed. A bit windy but seems to do the job for now. I might end up consolidating these into just one script later and/or directly use the masto API to publish to the fediverse and grab the syndication link from there. For now, I’m pretty psyched this is all working. ...

Just struck me that most of my disk drives are quite old. Almost all of them were salvaged from old laptops. Age does not necessarily equate to performance and I do have decent backups, but only a question of time before I see them going kaput. Living vicariously on the edge when it comes to self-hosting!