Now
Here's what I'm currently up to:
6 months at Halter
I wrote this 2 months ago and it's only true now!
I'm coming up to 7 months at the start of January but I feel like I'm in a time void or something. I've learnt so much in the latter half of this year that it feels like multiple years have passed at this point.
Christmas Break
I've had a few smaller breaks here and there but this will be my first break longer than a week in quite some time I think.
The last time I had a multi-week shutdown over the holiday period must have been quite a number of years ago because it's a struggle to even recall when the last time was.
Admittedly, my worry is that I'm going to waste it all away scrolling so I aim to maximise the holiday period and churn through as many projects as I can!
This Website
Every so often, I think I'll sit down and do a big redesign of the site. I've taken a few stabs and nothing in particular has stuck.
I've had a couple of comments that people like the site layout but I think it could have even more personality so perhaps I'll just focus on polishing various parts.
Some of the typography can do with a fresh pass and there are a number of pages on the site that aren't actually linked anywhere.
Surprisingly, I even have a few ideas for posts in my head as well so maybe I'll write one or two over the break.
It's an overcooked genre but I would like to capture my thoughts on the whole AI boom, not because I think I have any special insight but because I think it'd be interesting to revisit my thoughts when we're 5 or 10 years down the track, regardless of what the final outcome is.
I say that yet I almost never re-read my old posts so we'll see.
NZCCL
It's not publicly mentioned yet1 but I joined the Executive Committee for the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties last month.
I had already been attending their monthly meetings and doing the odd bit of volunteer work so functionally, nothing changes there. I just get a fancy sounding title.
While I have some spare time over the holidays, I'll be aiming to read up on some of the upcoming legislation as well as doing some improvements on the tech side.
RSS
I'm a fairly heavy user of NewsBlur but it's time to do a prune.
There are some information sources I don't care about anymore, others I just don't seem to have as much time for so I'm going to try and min/max the noise to signal ratio once again.
The same goes for my article backlog. I end up with too much stuff that realistically I won't get around to.
Framework
I recently got a 13 inch Framework for use at work. Until now, I'd been using a 13-inch Macbook Pro but I kept running out of memory as it only had 16GB of RAM.
This new upgraded Framework has plenty of resources and I was even able to run EndeavourOS on it to match my home desktop.
To date, I still haven't learned how to use tmux so perhaps it's finally time to take it for a spin.
Footnotes
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I still need to write a blurb for the website... ↩