Learning

I always have at least a few projects queued up or in progress, but recently I decided to get better organized with some personal project management. I installed Planka in my homelab and I’ve been filling it up with ideas, maintenance tasks, and issues for both homelab projects and house projects. Planka is essentially a Trello clone that’s missing a lot of Trello’s better features, but for now it’s where I’ve landed as it works pretty well and I’m hopeful that the project will stay active and keep adding features. ...

I’ve been building websites for over fifteen years. Twenty-five if you count the rudimentary attempt at inserting hyperlinks in Word documents when I was in grade school. Back then, I didn’t really understand how links (or websites for that matter) were made, but I thought I was cool just for making blue underlined text that opened Internet Explorer. (I also thought I was ahead of the curve using Windows’ Briefcase folders to sync files onto a floppy disk like I had somewhere to be. I’m pretty sure the disk just ended up in the back of one of those floppy organizers.) ...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Or so they say; people often skip the first steps of a process, for better or worse. They also say that the best way to learn is to teach, and that is both the method and the secondary goal of learning in public: contributing to society’s collective knowledge from one’s unique perspective by letting everyone see both the process and the product of learning. ...