Nat Welch @icco@merveilles.town

#theGalley been cooking my own breakfast more lately. Two eggs, a roll, gochujang, ketchup.

It is proven! I am icco on Keybase: https://keybase.io/icco/sigchain#ba1fb549e114e0eeffa6432df09f361a578947fea12b1f80a888119479c42dfe0f

I've been working from home, NYC is mostly closed now. I did some volunteer work on projectbaseline.com over the weekend, which helped me channel my anxiety.

Three projects that I'm working on this week to stay positive:
- walls.natwelch.com : building a tool to keep this synced across my workstations now that I've moved off of Dropbox.
- etu.natwelch.com : Restart my work on my time tracker
- Running a D&D campaign on Discord for my friends.

#theWorkshop

https://infovore.org/archives/2020/03/01/planetary-a-sequencer/ is neat, I didn't realize there was a DIY version of Norns!

Currently in Costa Rica. Came here for a vacation, but depression is keeping me from being able to stay happy or motivated.

That being said, my brain is working and more creative than it has been in a while. It just seems near impossible to put anything to paper.

#theVent

I've been churning through the Expanse book series lately. On book 7 now, and I love the twists and different styles this series keeps dropping in. Impressive the authors have kept it at this quality for so long.

#theLibrary

https://www.nateliason.com/blog/roam this seems quite heavy weight, but an interesting tool to look at for all of those folks building their own journaling systems.

https://werd.io/2018/what-youre-proud-of

I like this a lot. Whenever I get rejected by smaller companies, I wish I had the oportunity to show them more of who I am before they reject me based off of a PDF.

I have trouble keeping habits up, but my theory is that if I track them better, I'll keep them more consistently. Does that match with your experiences?

#theWorkshop got my blog sitemap and rss feed back.

Hah, jokes on me, forgot to reimplement sitemap and rss feeds. whoops.

Whelp, finally finished my react-hooks migration on https://writing.natwelch.com. Took way longer than expected, but site feels more snappy now I guess? All of the changes are visible at https://github.com/icco/writing/pull/62/files. Only real big change is commenting should now be easier.

Today in #theWorkshop, I'm debating on working on my second book, writing a blog post, continuing fixing my blog, or returning to designing a UI for reportd. Whatever I pick needs to be open to lots of interrupts as my wife is sick with the flu.

I guess this goes under #theWorkshop. Lots of good hashtags I need to learn at https://merveilles.town/about/more#commonhashtags

I'm deep in the rabbit hole of changing my blog frontend to use react hooks. Probably going to end up being the largest code change I've done in a while with no graphical change.

https://github.com/icco/writing/pull/62

Finished my Year in Review today. https://writing.natwelch.com/post/710

One thing I didn't include in my goals is improving my involvement in smaller communities, mainly because I wasn't sure how to quantify it. I have four that I care about... just need to remind myself to stay active in them.