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title: Public Journal
description: This section explores the concept of maintaining a Public Journal.
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This page takes inspiration from the [Journal of an Enigmatic Mind](https://speyllsite.pages.dev/journal/). It explores the concept of keeping a public journal, something I haven't done before.

## 2024

### March

- Updated my personal website. Using the minimal 11ty with Vite template repo.

### February

- Discovered NASA's [Astronomy Picture of the Day](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/).
- Added Spanish translations for [Quartz](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz) in [PR #822](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/pull/822).
- Updated my [Obsidian Starter Vault](https://github.com/semanticdata/obsidian-starter-vault) project. Now includes more information about the CSS snippets, community plugins, and general workflows included in it.
- Forked these [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) [Minimal theme](https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal) [CSS Snippets](https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippets).
- Added new CSS Snippets to my vault. I'll probably end up posting them later.
- Republished my personal website using [11ty](https://www.11ty.dev/) and [elva](https://github.com/scottsweb/elva). Moved the site to `semanticdata.github.io`. It is currently deployed with Vercel. Will use a different starter and drop `elva` soon.

### January

- Archived many of my inactive GitHub repositories.
- Compiled my GitHub stars in [this repo](https://github.com/semanticdata/github-stars) with the help of [maguowei/starred](https://github.com/maguowei/starred).
- Submitted Spanish translations for [gethyas/doks-core](https://github.com/gethyas/doks-core).
- Started playing around with [11ty](https://www.11ty.dev/).
    - Cloned [Eleventy Excellent](https://github.com/madrilene/eleventy-excellent).
    - Cloned [Eleventy Garden](https://github.com/binyamin/eleventy-garden).
- Learned about [Astro](https://astro.build/). I'm playing around with it.
    - Cloned [Astro Cube](https://github.com/semanticdata/astro-cube) and [Astro Essentialist](https://github.com/0xShapeShifter/essentialist).
- Discovered [CUBE CSS](https://cube.fyi/), [Utopia](https://utopia.fyi/), and [buildexcellentwebsit.es](https://buildexcellentwebsit.es/).
    - CUBE stands for **Composition Utility Block Exception**.
- Fixed the search module not working in [Forgetful Notes](https://github.com/semanticdata/forgetful-notes).
- Revived [Firefox TabSpace](https://github.com/semanticdata/firefox-tabspace). Cleaned the repo and published updated version.

## 2023

### December

- Created new Firefox extension: [ChatGPT in the Sidebar](https://github.com/semanticdata/firefox-chatgpt-in-sidebar).
- Published new Firefox extension: [New Tab Notes](https://github.com/semanticdata/firefox-new-tab-notes).
- I visited the [Dominican Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic) after more than 8 years without visiting family.
- Submitted [Mabuya](https://github.com/semanticdata/mabuya) to the Zola themes site.
- Submitted [Zola Minimal](https://github.com/semanticdata/zola-minimal) to the Zola themes site.
- Discovered [Bulma](https://bulma.io/), a CSS framework.
- Republished my [website](https://github.com/semanticdata/semanticdata.github.io) with the [serene](https://github.com/isunjn/serene).
- Renamed Zola Dinkleberg to [Zola Guava](https://github.com/semanticdata/zola-guava).

### November

- Ported the Chrome extension [Text Revealer](https://github.com/jamigibbs/text-revealer-chrome-extension) to Firefox.
- Updated my [Obsidian Starter](https://github.com/semanticdata/obsidian-starter-vault) vault.
- I'm playing around with [Svelte](https://svelte.dev/), and [Milkdown](https://milkdown.dev/).
    - Created [svelte-milkdown](https://github.com/semanticdata/svelte-milkdown).
- Republished my 2010 blog in Spanish: [Prose Poetry](https://github.com/semanticdata/prose-poetry).
- Fixed bug outlined in [Issue #18](https://github.com/getzola/book/issues/18) in [Zola Book](https://github.com/getzola/book).
- Added dark theme and toggle to the [Anpu Zola](https://github.com/zbrox/anpu-zola-theme) theme.