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feeling a lot better about writing at the exact moment of writing this, let's see if it lasts! the notes blog rides again, this time in append-mostly so i'm not futzing around moving stuff and worrying about where things should go. gonna try and write my newsletter on a fortnightly cadence, and hoping to finish alphabet superset by the end of the year. i believe in me!
gearing up for my move of cities! probably in late august or early september.
still working on the video about whether social media has to be shit, hopefully i will post it by the end of august, but we'll see, i'd honestly be happy if i released it by the end of the year 😭
content crit discord is still around if anyone is interested! contact me

May, June, July 2025

trying to trust the process and write more for its own sake. struggling with it a bit. still working on my talk for front end north 2025, newsletter eventually i guess, the technopaganism post(s), the video on leaving social media, and thinking of 'words that start with m' for the next alphabet superset post. suggestions please, preferably ones that aren't to do with machine learning.
dropped the notes blog. better to have something in draft form or in finished for. the in-between is really confusing to navigate and leads to a lot of broken links.
started working on a personal project in vue (i might swap to react still, but we'll see).
need to finish things, get back to weeknotes and centre myself a bit.

i've started a discord for content crit/feedback for things people are posting online; most of the people are techies so far, if you're interested in joining hmu?
this blog, my works-in-progress/working with the garage door up/digital garden space and now newsletter are my focus!
still working on the technopagan blog ~~post~~ series
a bit stuck on my "recreational" coding focus; i have lost interest in the digital estates project a bit, might just be documentation or write a post about it. i'd like to contribute to ongoing projects too so will scout about and find some, hopefully.
my next longform video is going to be about the social media exodus and what we do about it
trying to read a bunch more this month and this year. love suggestions!
also on the look out for more speaking and writing gigs, do be in touch

committing to this bear blog for the foreseeable and experimenting with collaborative other blogs elsewhere! i'll let you know when these efforts bear fruit :)
working on a project about digital estates/death and dying online
working on a post about how my technopagan beliefs/technomancy manifests itself, and somehow reading a bunch of books about atheist and spiritual ritual and tech as religion. might take a while
still on going through the same courses as last month
deciding what my first four short videos of the year will be about
deciding what my first long video in ages will be about
experimenting with video editing and desktop recording on mac

still writing, still researching, still unsure where to put these things now substack is dark sided, and also unsure i want a newsletter? slowly working it out
going through 0de5, complete css, and an experimental async rust thing that is probably too hard for me.
gonna create at least one thing of any size online a week for all of 2025.
working on my 25 wishes for 2025
trying to read more and consume more content in general (gasps from the audience) that actually feels fun, useful or fulfilling

still writing and researching for talks!
still slowly going through 0de5
daily single tarot draws to learn my deck
learning design (would love suggestions here, I've heard of hack design though!) and getting really good at CSS for that end
looking for origami courses and apps
carrying on with alphabet superset and hopefully finishing by the end of the year!

Focusing more on shorts video wise, since I'm trying to get outside of my current longform (writing) audience with this practice of making video. Hopefully any and all camera exposure will help me with shyness and editing!
Started going through 0de5 as it felt very serendipitous that as soon as I was thinking about levelling up again I came across it!
Started my digital garden but do need to actually tend it.
Still thinking a lot about community and what the other options are besides closed/private communities (Discords, Slacks, Zulips) where people would feel free to say what they feel like and mean. Maybe private is the way to go but I worry about siloing information!

Hoping I'll finish my first YouTube video since my long break by the end of June. Hold me to it!
Thinking a lot about community and what I want out of my online life. Read a great piece from Maggie Appleton and was reminded of old advice to start small when it comes to huge projects. Need to test my ideas. Hoping to put on some kind of event eventually but need to think more.
I'm learning to embrace my feelings about research, writing and implementing. I want to get better at all of it, but I definitely go through phases where one is all I want to do, and I think that's okay.
Looking forward to songwriting lessons that start soon, very exciting.
Chess is going super slowly, I've been going to a chess club but really want to start dedicating a lot more time to it.
Still working on my next integrity report, and deciding if I want to start a digital garden. I've been leaning into Capacities and wonder if me working with the garage door up would even be interesting to people. Let me know if it would!

Obsessively listening to my 'On Repeat' from Spotify (it's mostly Hozier) and wondering about competing streaming services, Bandcamp and all that's changed about it and whether we'll have an alternative that's good for artists any time in the near future (at least in terms of pay).
Trying to create more; in video for Youtube, with words for this blog/substack (“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.” A quote from Maya Angelou, the hope and the dream), with needle and thread for my body/people's eyes (I guess?), music with ukulele + voice and webby things with code!
Reviewing my values with a Integrity Report at some point in the near future. My values at the minute are sustainability, joy, justice, experimentation, courage and rapport. Checking those are still my values basically, and if/how I've been adhering to them.
Slowly trying to get back into exercise, mostly dumbbell exercises cos my gym is slightly too far away.
Learning computer science stuff, we'll see how I go!
Oh yeah; chessmaxxing is in full swing. I am not good yet.

I'll leave up the old updates when I make new updates; maybe monthly, maybe less.

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