§ I finished reading a Common Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms. Really glad I read it. It filled many gaps I had on some fundamentals, like _how_ big notation works and why we do it and why and when we use certain data structures.

§ Also finished reading Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday. Incredible book. Reflecting on myself while reading and seeing just how much my ego has been in my way for most of my life, was not easy. But I am so glad I did.

§ Got a new workstation setup, a System76 Thelio Spark Premium (with sick pink racing stripe lol), to be my new home for deep work this year. It was a “grand gesture”, a way to encourage and support myself while I do the deep work. It’s going well so far!

§ Building this blog has been a lot of fun. Glad I moved away from micro.blog, not that their service is bad in any way, quite the opposite, I just really value building my own thing. It’s very fun and rewarding.

§ I build a companion service for static websites. Currently, it scans new posts for urls to submit as webmentions, provides a commenting API, and provides an imageproxy service to do on demand image resizing and caching. In the future it will be a webmention provider, and syndicate posts to places like Bluesky, Mastodon, and maybe LinkedIn. I will probably write a full blog post about it.