HURRAY!!! I GOT A NEW JOB! I received and accepted job offer with a new employer, a local nonprofit who provides a unique and exciting service in the green-mobility and transportation sphere. I’m really excited for my work to once again engage my technical skills, be able to build a useful service that allows my community to free ourselves from car-dependency, and to reorient my career tragectory to better match my needs....
Whelp - the plan to publish more consistently on my blog lasted about a week. I’ve been keeping busy and haven’t had a ton of time to sit down and write. I have some cool things that I’ve been working on which excited to share. Intention to write about some of these in separate articles at a later point in time. 3D Printer Last fall I purchased a FYSETC Prusa MK3S clone from AliExpress with the intention of getting into 3D modeling and printing, and it took months to get it set up and functioning....
Important: wellness check Studying and discussing societal collapse can be absolutely disasterous on ones emotional health and overall well-being. I believe it’s important to preface any discussion on these heavy topics with an acknowledgement that it’s important to ensure that you have the energy available to process this before moving forward. If not - it is okay to take a step back, center yourself, and recharge. That is not admitting defeat or giving up on the struggle to build a better world, but giving yourself what you need to continue the fight for all of us....
In one of my IT training classes, I was recently asked about how to secure a custom domain (e.g. gunnaraas.com), set up a simple website, and set up email services. This is something I did early on in my career, largely as a “because I can”, and that I’ve received positive feedback on from potential clients and employers. There are, of course, ways of spending hundreds of dollars a year to accomplish this in a one-click deployment (GoDaddy, Squarespace, Google Workspace, etc....
It is once again a New Years Resolution of mine to do more personal writing & publishing, and to once again try to revive my blog. I’ve tried this before, but am now feeling like there’s enough going on that I have interesting things to document and share. One problem has continually challenged me in publishing and writing things, especially outside of work or school, is the pressure to only share something when it’s complete (read: perfect)....