What I’m up to lately.
March 14, 2026
I’m pretty excited about how this site is shaping out. I have been working on adding highlighting and fun paper-like stylings and going through updating the pages with the new options. There are many pages to review for currency, but I’ll be going through those much slower. It’s fun to get back into this and be more engaged on some coding level. I know you can do custom CSS with Obsidian but it wasn’t hitting the spot.
What I’ve been doing with websites:
- I have spent much of my weekend free time over the last several weeks dedicated to figuring out the layout and updating pages with different styles. I am not 100% sure how I feel about everything yet, I think it’s missing something but I can’t put my finger on it.
- I also built the Wiki component to the digital garden. I was struggling on where to put stuff that I learn that aren’t original ideas and thoughts and notes trying to articulate my perspectives. I figured out a couple of categories based on notes I’ve written or ideas I’ve had, dropped some of the starter notes I hadn’t published yet, then kind of ignored it for this site instead. It’s ready to become a focus.
What’s going on creatively:
- I have been using my screenless digital camera more often to take photos around my home/life, though I keep forgetting to bring it outside with me. I love it in sync with the “slow creativity” goals I’ve been working on. I know I have a bunch of photos to review but I’ll do that some other time, all at once with several weeks of moments.
- I was approved to create an account on lone.earth to share videos I take standing outside and trying not to breathe too loudly while I record a cool nature view or soundscape. I wanted a place to upload and share videos from my travels and walks in nature that wasn’t YouTUbe, and this came up. I find myself recording these videos a lot, but I never share them (instead I hoard and watch them myself), so we’ll see where this goes!
What’s going on at work:
- We have some big things upcoming so I’m gearing up to get a bunch of work again. It’s not that we had a “pause” on work, but we were in a moment before semester readiness deadlines crept up and new initiatives/projects began. In the meantime, normal operations ensued. I was able to organize some of my folders/files and set up for the next few months of my worklife!
- One of the things is a migration from the current content management system (CMS) to a new one that few of us on the team have little familiarity with, because it’ll be new and we’re not only adopting/implementing it but also migrating the old content into it. I know it sounds messy but I’m pretty excited since my role will involve process development and user documentation, as well as being around for content strategy discussion. Also, it’s the first migration I’ve ever done where I wasn’t part of the copy and paste team. Oh how I’ve grown!
March 2, 2026
I did it! I managed to update the layout so the footer is actually in the footer, the content block is big enough to read things, and there’s no overlapping content. I still have a ways to go before I get this site where I want it to be, but I’m proud of where it is now.
It’s barely been two weeks since my last update so not much has happened but I’m trucking along!
What I’ve been doing with websites:
- Just this site… I haven’t given much time to work on sites otherwise. This one is my main focus at the moment until I get all the details updated.
What’s going on creatively:
- Just keeping up with my goals to put pen to paper and write more offline!
What’s going on at work:
- Not much at the moment; we’re in the eye of the storm before new projects start and many things change! I’ve been doing some knowledge management professional development and creating job aids and instructions to help non-writers write documentation.
- It’s performance management season, so I’m focused on creating goals and having those conversations. I just got a new boss (my old boss went to a different department) and he admitted he’s not equipped to measure or evaluate my performance over the last year, since we rarely worked together. Review time is usually “extra work” but a positive out of this recent reorg is that I get to have aspirational conversations about the future, rather than reviewing the past.
February 20, 2026
I’m rebuilding this site from scratch! Well, sort of. Instead of using Obsidian, I’m using a combination of Quartz (preferring to make my pages by hand than to use Obsidian), Anytype, and Leaflet to deliver my digital garden. Each has its own pros/cons for delivering content and I’m captalizing on the pros to make a diverse PKMS for myself.
I have a lot of stuff to add still as I migrate the existing content in addition to stuff I made, but never put online because Obsidian was too limiting for the things I wanted to do.
What I’ve been doing with websites:
- This site: Trying to figure out how to use Github! It took about 5 hours of troubleshooting but I figured out how to fork, commit to MY git (instead of trying to commit to Quartz directly, oops), view my site locally to draft changes before publishing, and (mostly) tweaked the layout. There are a lot of changes still to make but I’m proud of myself for getting this all together!
- Thinking often lately about Phantom Manor and what kind of seasonal things I might add before we get to September…
What’s going on creatively:
- I’ve been making lots of zines! A zine factory! I started my winter seasonal zine and made a few 1-page zines about projects and creative things I have going on. Also, I’ve added a bunch of ideas to my zine ideas list. ‘Tis the season for zining!
What’s going on at work:
- We just completed another reorg after our major work transition that just ended in December. Lots of change is coming! It’s scary but I feel relatively safe/secure and not worried about my job, just uncertain what’s next in line as things sit in the “in between” before a transition settles.
- I’ve been working in Clipchamp more, making short training videos or demos. I finally got comfortable enough to work fairly quickly and now I’m able to budget enough time to create a month-in-review recap of releases that impacted workflows around the online classroom. I’m trying to keep it at maximum 5 minutes so it’s quite bite sized, but I’ve gotten some good feedback so far! Excited to see how that improves throughout the year, and where this new video editing skill takes me.