It’s Mid-July and there needs to be a life update.
Work wise, I’ve been working on some projects:
- Authentic Auctions
- Made with Hugo and hosted on Digital Ocean App Platform. Coding this from scratch allows me to make a bunch of the pieces reusable. As opposed to projects built with WISYIWYG builders, code reuse is much easier with this platform.
- Dr. Ariel Palanca is a website I helped make for a clsoe friend for her practice out in San Diego area.
- This was made with SquareSpace so much of what I did was in the squarespace interface. I find it combersome and hard to figure out, and not super intuitive to someone who is used to writing raw HTML and CSS.
- Farmers Friend Greenhouse Construction - I’ve been helping construct several large greenhouses for a local farm. It has been fun, but also very challenging. I built two last year and these are longer and were harder to construct. We are still not quite finished with the last one.
- Newport Acroyoga - Is one of my projects to bring Acroyoga to Newport, RI. I’m now on what I consider to be my third iteration of students going through the program, and I’m looking to find a way to grow the program and bring in more students. Going to look at redoing the website and social and bringing some things together.
- Zack’s Packs and Gear Repair - I’ve been doing some sewing work for Zack’s Packs and making some more tool rolls for Kingspoke Custom.
I’ve also been playing around with Windsurf for coding and writing. In fact, this post was crafted in Windsurf. While it is a powerful tool, it doesn’t solve the need for me to oversee what it’s doing. I do believe it is making me a little faster, but I would relate it to Dan Harris’ 10% Happier. It makes me about 10% faster, and 10% more productive.
I’m also starting to work on the update for Hanukkah Coffee Box project for next year. It starts earlier this year, December 14, 2025. So I guess it’s like Jewish Christmas in July for me.