Journal

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

May

• Contributing to the Eleventy Notes project. Put together a new workflow specific to the project and the changes were incorporated into the project. Here’s the publication.
• Added a new sidebar companion toggled via shortcut and toolbar button to both Firefox TabSpace and Firefox New Tab Notes. I am reconsidering renaming the extension so it matches its features better. As it is no longer just about notes in your new tab, but also notes in the sidebar, I (at least) temporarily renamed it “Just Notes”.
• Developed a new GitHub Actions workflow to deploy Firefox extensions by creating a new release in the corresponding repository. It was originally tested on Just Notes. The new workflow was later then added to all of my Firefox extensions to aid in new version releases.
• Released 2 new Firefox extensions:
  • Gemini in Sidebar
  • Meta AI in Sidebar

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.