mental health

It’s been a busy month around here. Day job is pretty busy and I’m building some cool stuff. It’s not all technical debt! I’m doing some more formal learning about the different kinds of code I write and have learned that I have the fundamentals of Vue.js down pretty good. Now, when it gets complicated I kind of flail a bit. Google also decided to eat my medical appointments calendar which is the exact reason I keep a paper backup....

I started the process of mothballing my old site last night. It was really hard to go through nearly 700 posts and unpublish them, leaving only the ones I’m planning on archiving on a static site. Really, really hard. Also hard was seeing people respond on Twitter to my statement a few days ago that I was shutting the site down. It’s been, personally, a terrible few years. I’ve lost my health, my career, and now I’m losing the vast majority of my social network....