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[!note] This page explores the concept of keeping a public journal, something I haven't done before. I'm still defining what exactly I should include in this journal. I'm currently making sure it's not too technical, or difficult to read.

2024

April

• Helped a good friend study for some certifications they are testing for. Felt great knowing they were no longer feeling as much pressure afterwards. 😊
• Moved my personal blog / website to Bearblog. They have come a long way since I hosted my blog there some years ago. It looks like a nice community that I would be missing if I was developing my own site.
• Took another go at designing a site with the help of Eleventy Plus Vite.
• I am getting more involved with Godot. Reading about it, checking out some simple guides.
• Learning more about Git. I recently signed up for an account on SourceHut.
  • Practicing adding remotes, renaming them, pushing to multiple remote repositories simultaneously.
• Cleaned and prepared some repositories to learn game development with LÖVE.
  • Scrolling Shooter
  • Platformer
  • MMBN Combat Boilerplate

March

• Backed up my past personal websites inside semanticdata.github.io using a different branch. It now sits with a few other previous personal websites and blogs I have backup on the repo.
• Currently using Eleventy Vite to publish MiguelPimente.do. The plan is to transition to a new starter I'm working on.
• Refreshed all my notes within Forgetful Notes. Revised the desktop layouts.
• Learning Nunjucks to use as templating engine within Eleventy.
• Revisited my GitHub Stars. Removed a lot of unused ones and added the interesting ones to my Raindrop.io public page. The rest can be found in this repository.
• Learning about HTTP Headers and how to apply them via vercel.json in the repository root. Mozilla Observatory is my choice to check headers and other security evaluations.
• Took up the One HTML Page Challenge. Find my source code here. This is not a short term project. Planning to add things as I learn, etc.
• I dropped Bulma in favor of TailwindCSS to use in my current project. I'm also using DaisyUI that plays well with TailwindCSS.

February

• Discovered NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. 📷
• After checking out Astro, I decided it wasn't time to jump into it. For now, using Eleventy feels adequate given my knowledge level. I will definitely give Astro another go, once I am more comfortable with Svelte.
• Updated my Obsidian Starter Vault project. It now includes more information about the CSS snippets, community plugins, and general workflows included in it.
• Forked these Obsidian Minimal theme CSS Snippets for future reference.
• Added new CSS snippets to my Obsidian vault. I'll probably end up posting them later.
• Republished my personal website using Eleventy and elva. Moved the site to semanticdata.github.io. It is currently deployed with Vercel. Will use a different starter and drop elva soon.
• Contributed Spanish translations for Quartz in PR #822.

January

• Archived many of my inactive GitHub repositories. 📦🗃
• Compiled my GitHub stars in this repo with the help of maguowei/starred.
• Submitted Spanish translations for gethyas/doks-core.
• Started playing around with 11ty. Checking out Eleventy Excellent, and Eleventy Garden.
• Learned about Astro. I'm playing around with it and some website starters.
• Discovered CUBE CSS, Utopia, and buildexcellentwebsit.es.
• Fixed the search module not working in Forgetful Notes.
• Gave Firefox TabSpace a nice cleaning. Published updated version.

2023

December

• Finally visited the Dominican Republic after more than 8 years without going. I didn't really tell anyone about the trip. I just wanted to make sure I was able to actually go back at this time. My main focus on the trip was to visit and spend time with family. 💜🎄
• Published new Firefox extensions ChatGPT in the Sidebar and New Tab Notes. This last one is helping me learn browser sync and storage management.
• Republished my personal website with serene.
• Learned about Bulma. I'm taking a look at it as a CSS framework.
• Submitted new Zola Themes Mabuya and Zola Minimal.
• Renamed Zola Dinkleberg to Zola Guava.

November

• Chrome extension Text Revealer was not available in Firefox, so I made a Firefox version. 🔎
• Updated my Obsidian Starter vault. It now includes more information about backing up the vault and other general workflows.
• Playing around with Svelte, and Milkdown. I like the pair, but I paused working on this for now.
• Republished my old blog in Spanish: Prose Poetry. I recently found the canonical blog I wrote in 2010 and republished it.
• Contributions:
  • Fixed bugs for Zola Book outlined in Issue #18.
  • Submitted dark theme and toggle to the Anpu Zola theme. My changes were merged.