Welcome to 2025

Posted: Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM | Categories: Miscellaneous

Its the first day of 2025 and I thought I'd start things off a little differently this year. This post is both a retrospective on last year's activities and a look into the future of this site (at least for this year).

Retrospective

Last year I wrote slightly less posts than the previous year (59 vs. 68). One of the reasons for so many articles in 2023 was that I migrated a lot of sites to Eleventy that year (from Joomla! and Wordpress) so I had a lot to write about.

In 2024:

• I wrote a lot more posts about spam and phishing emails and text messages I received.
• I wrote a lot more posts about Eleventy(11ty), including adding some new capabilities to existing utilities.
• I suspended my US Presidential campaign and decided not to run again.
• I spent a lot more time in my workshop than at my desk writing code, so that explains part of the deficit.
• I released a Path Backup (and Restore) utility for Windows.
• I built a documentation site using Docusaurus.

Workshop Projects

Here's some of the projects I built last year:

A benchtop power supply with a 3D-printed case.

I made three Owl houses:

A cherry napkin holder:

A set of storage shelves for some jars full of nuts I had in my shop:

A new storage cabinet for the shop

A new stand, with amplifier and speakers, for Sparky, my remote control flame throwing pumpkin"

Looking Forward

What does 2025 look like for me?

• I plan on doing even more woodworking in my shop; I'm honing my skills for retirement.
• I'm on track to eliminate the only debt I have (my mortgage) and get my kids moved out of the house.
• I may retire or start working part time (who knows)
• I plan on finishing this site's upgrade to Eleventy 3. I figured it out and upgraded several sites, but upgrading this one is biting me in the ass.
• I bought a better 3D printer last year (a Bambu Labs X1C), so I plan on learning how to design my own projects for printing.
• I'd like to add a newsletter to the site so people can subscribe to updates
• Raymond Camden publishes periodic lists of links to things he's looking at, I may do that this year as well (that's the goal anyway).

That's all I have right now, see you soon

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