New Year, New Blog, and New Bugs

Organizing My Thoughts

I’m writ­ing this blog post on New Year’s Day, brac­ing my­self for the vi­o­lent reen­try into my hec­tic school life in less than 2 days. I think this is a good op­por­tu­nity for me to take a step back and or­ga­nize my thoughts while I still have the time (and pa­tience), so here goes.

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This Website

I’ve spent the ma­jor­ity of my win­ter break work­ing on this web­site. It’s built with blood, sweat, and tears, ex­cept in­stead of blood I used Jekyll, and in­stead of sweat and tears I used Sass and HTML.

This was also my first time work­ing with Sass, so def­i­nitely ex­pect some­thing about that ex­pe­ri­ence soon. In fact, I did­n’t ex­pect to be us­ing Sass, un­til my hand was ba­si­cally forced when I wanted to use any type of as­set pipeline for min­i­miz­ing and op­ti­miz­ing my as­sets.

There’s still lots of work to be done, par­tic­u­larly in the lit­tle “terminal” easter egg on the home page, but I’m very happy with the site.

This Blog

After fin­ish­ing the first ver­sion of the blog some­time in May of this year last year, I up­loaded my first post (about Chrome Dev Tools), and then promptly ig­nored it for the rest of the year. I def­i­nitely plan on post­ing more, and hope­fully at least once every week, with ei­ther tid­bits of my per­sonal life or tech­ni­cal ad­vice.

This Life (Mine, Not Yours)

I ex­pect that, once I en­ter the halls of Thomas Jefferson High School for Sci­ence and Technology, I will once again be faced with the chal­lenges of bal­anc­ing school­work with every­thing else that I want to do, in­clud­ing Dev Club, this blog, band, and so much more. So how do I plan on stay­ing afloat? If only I knew. That said, I’ll take to heart Dory’s ad­vice of “Just keep swim­ming”, and keep you guys up­dated.

Speaking of Being Updated…

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Anyway, Happy New Year’s, and I hope you’re as ex­cited as I am (despite my moan­ing and groan­ing) to start this year off strong.