Now
this page is about what I'm up to right now.
Reading: come back later.
Writing: Piece on COMPANION: An Agroecological Adventure.
Crafting: Shoe rack liner.
Developing: Personal site on 11ty.
Learning: 11ty.
Feeling: Confident.
January 6th, 2026
So, it's been a while. More than half a year actually. I'm thinking of moving these posts to an upcoming blog I want to develop.
Having a bit of trouble thinking where to start. I continue to be back home in Latin America. I managed to secure an internship which starts next week, of which after successfully completing I will have my undergrad degree, yay! Not so yay considering the job prospects of my intended career but I'm actually more hopeful now than before. And that's in no small part of me joining the Fediverse.
I have a Mastodon account! It's the second iteration of it because at first I signed up for indieweb.social and the folks I was finding weren't relevant to my interests so I created another account in planetearth.social. Just today I posted my introduction and got a few follow requests. I'm having fun!
So the world is devolving into a personal nightmare and the danger is a bit too close to home for me to not feel threatened. The year has started quite intense. That's all I'll say about current events for now.
Anyways, my plans for the year include redesigning the site's homepage to a two or three column design and the aforementioned blog. I'm leaning towards zonelots as a start. I am aware of bear blog and mataroa and even the Markdown based blog in Node.js tutorial I completed but I want to have experience with the bare necessities for maintaining a blog. Gotta start somewhere.
Oh, important announcement. Last year I started taking HTML/CSS courses at CodeAcademy. I finished the Begginner HTML and CSS, and Internmediate HTML. Need to finish Intermediate CSS course. I also created a Codepen.io account to practice.
On the second half of the year, I mainly focused on my hobbies. I'm confident I will see some effects in my future writing and web design available in this website and blog. I really needed a place where I wouldn't be bound by perfectionism and fear of failure, trying out new things without thinking of the consequences. To be honest, it's a silly fear because folks actually appreciate reading about them regardless of my expertise. I hope to bring that sense of freedom to this site and future updates.
May 27, 2025
Oh my, oh my, am I glad to be back tweaking this site! I chose to put this site aside to focus on my studies and I'm proud to inform that after doing an internship, this enby will be the owner of a Bachelor degree! In Environmental Science! Woohoo! Haha.
I've been back home for a almost three weeks and I'm getting my groove back. I returned from my trip to the capital a couple of days ago and I'm enjoying my birthday updating this site and doing crafts.
I have been reading about git flows with the intention of applying some to my workflow. As a self-taught front-end web developer working solo, I want to take my expertise with git to the next level. With workflows, I'll be handling branches, making pull requests and overall getting a deeper understanding of this tool. Here the original post from Vincent Driessen, here's another post based on it, and here's a video on Git Flow and GitHub Flow.
At the moment, I find that GitHub Flow works better for solo projects such a personal websites because its a faster workflow than Git Flow which relies on more branches and assumes a longer development period. One of the things that I want to polish from my current workflow is the process from the website's content which is currently under the `markdown` branch to the HTML/CSS syntax. I don't mind copy and pasting but I have had trouble remembering what I need to copy. I want to introduce more discipline into my workflow going directly from MD draft to HTML/CSS syntax and not get distracted from writing/editing other things.
Overall, I'm doing pretty well. I have applied to an internship and I'm waiting for an answer. If that doesn't work out, I have a few ideas. I'm planning on finishing a little project called LinkFree which is a self-coded version of LinkTree. I'm not sure if there's an official name for one page websites with links to different accounts of an individual/entity but that's what it is. I just need to add the rest of the icons, fix the link to my CV, and add the credits section. The link to the portfolio is a placeholder till I get to that project.
On a random final note, I got into a customizing kick and set up Rainmeter and TranslucentTB, and designed my own aesthetic desktop background for my laptop. It's the first time I have done something like this to my devices and I'm happy with the result. I always had trouble deciding on a desktop background so a productivity-focused one was just what I needed, haha. It got the time and date in the center, a monthly calendar, a weather widget, and several drawers for most used app, projects, and a priority list similar to what's at the top of the page. This totally wasn't to scratch the web dev itch while procrastinating on homework, not at all.
Welp, here's to more updates to come! Cheers!
January 27th, 2025
Whoop whoop, what a strange place to be! The home of this has been neocities for the past four months. While I'm writing on the markdown version, I'm updating this site, from Github Pages! Not gonna lie, it feels much more lonely. But as I explained [here](/02 blog/03 longform/smp-cleanup.html) one of the goals from starting my own website was to make it slightly more professional. The kind of website I can share with people in real life and is tied to my... government identity I guess, for lack of a better term.
To summarize that behemoth of a page, what's going to happen from now on is that this site will continue to be hosted on GitHub Pages. That means the site in Neocities will not be updated. That's all you need to know. Welcome to MY site! A slightly less self-indulgent than the previous one. Look forward to big-brained arguments. I'm going full PKM with this one and there's no turn back.
January 5th, 2025
Wow, WOW! We actually made it. The celebration was so exciting. Nothing to complain about. I managed to write things I wanted to leave behind and share this opportunity with my family and burned all those papers with the mannequins on New Year's Day (the law-abiding pyromaniac in me was ecstatic). The food was delicious. I received a lovely dotted notebook. Despite having a severe toothache, I feel light.
On another topic, I finally took the leap to use extensions to keep myself accountable on what sites I spend the most time on my laptop. My phone has the Digital Wellbeing app and YourHour to limit the use of some apps. I wanted to bring that same mindfulness to my laptop. I am using Unhook and Superfocus. The former is specifically for YT, hiding sections like Shorts, Mixes, Recommended, and Live Chat. Superfocus tackles a wider range of addictive social media apps. At the moment, it hides my YT Feed which is such a crazy change. Now I just have the Subscriptions page to watch content. This is doing something to my brain I don't know how to express. I'm definitely spending less time on the site which I'm putting on other places that are more meaningful (like this site!), or checking out older content from people I follow.
Back to website stuff, I like having different things for the site to work on. Site Plans is divided into Structure, Design, Both, and Others so I have quite the breadth of things to tackle whenever I feel like and the site still feels "whole" (although the relative sizes are still screaming at me because the text looks HUGE on mobile but I dread CSS so I'm procrastinating hard on that). I decided to add the stuff I'm focusing one on the "Developing" section so I don't get overwhelmed/confused, haha.