Turkey Weekend 🇨🇦🦃 has drained me so all you get for weeknotes today is a list:
revisit note system through obsidian for my adhd-ness – I’ve used daily template for years, but it’s not feeling right anymore. Time to change it up
Did some reading on L-theanine and ADHD and until I get any movement on re-diagnosis, though why not.
I’m also looking to improve my life pattern specifically trying to help ADHD patterns. Note: I fight patterns and routine on a good day – my ADHD abhors it… which makes things interesting. I’m already telling my Pomodoro timer to put that break in it’s tomato. And I’m only a few days in.
I wrapped up the final psychodamic of an orality culture. I think there’s a few I need to add clarity and revisit, but now what? If we are a postliterate oral culture, and everyone’s like “ya” then what? My comms background is consistently asking myself “why should anyone care?” And it’s a very valid question I still can’t successfully communicate.
Finished the class work on AIPMM CPM. Now it’s time to study up and get ready for the exam.
‘Tis the season where my child wants me to be some advanced cosplay outfit maker. I admit I like it a bit, but oh the cardboard! This year sounds pretty advanced. We’ll see what kind of blueprints he makes at 7.
Should I teach him AutoCAD? Probably a bad idea, considering I tried to teach him to play Minecraft with a computer keyboard and mouse on the weekend so he could play the “real” poisonous potato; it did not go well.
More AP WP woes
As anyone who’s read my previous weeknotes, you may have noted my woes with AP WP and my new host. It’s an on again off again curse of a relationship. It was working, then it wasn’t. Smashing head to table, plugins on and off and on and off. Now all caching plugins are off and other under the hood plugins are in use… it seems to be… better. We’ll see what lasts.
Still Edu-ma-cating
Still working towards that AIPMM CPM designation. Slowly but surely watching those percents go up and up every day.
What Else?
Let’s see….
Ikea furniture madness
I shouldn’t be hacking away at walls with saws, but I did, and it kinda looks good
Tinkering a bit, brushing off cobwebs on Symfony & Rails.
I know, I know… different languages, but hey, why not.
Actually giving AI a bit of a chance. Though very timid on it all still.
Lot’s of talking and searching, and exploring on the j-o-b front.
All in all in that questioning everything place.
Well, that’s all I’ve got. Typing for typing-sake on this one.
So after being on the web for a very long time, I’m working to get me all certified. Product Manager certified.
So – let the schooling being. I’m going through ProductSide
Why Product Manager?
As the quote says, it does tie the room together. I’ve got a little of this, and a little of that in my tool belt. PMs need to straddle multiple perspectives and skills. A bit of design, a bit of tech, a bit of marketing and a bit of biz, all with the objective of making products better.
Every company I’ve worked for at some point let’s me be me, and I mash, assimilate info, and create: MVPs, POCs, experiments, pilot programs, and more.
Unfortunately, for me, I’ve never been with a company with an official Product team. Hopefully an AIPMM CPM certification can open that door. 🤷
It was a bit of a learning curve, but for the most part it’s done. I’m now hosting on Canadian soil.
I started with my previous host in 2006! Before I say 15+, but it was more like almost 20! Boy oh boy the mess in the wake of that many years.
It was a reminder to always clean my toys when I’m done playing with them and what happens if you don’t. It was also a very good exercise to purge, and prep to purge.
Too many domains I’m squatting on that I thought, at the time where cool, but now look back, I set them to “Don’t Auto Renew”.
One last task to take me about a year, is to transfer domains when I need. Paying to transfer all at once is a bit out of budget.
WP Activitypub plugin and Nginx issue
In the process, and for lessons. I did have one problem with porting ActivityPub over. Seems my new host adds an Nginx cache to sites to give ’em a bit of a boost. However… turns out it broke this site and ground it all to a halt.
Seems unless configured specifically using Nginx cache doesn’t like to swap content types. So when a page is rendered as HTML one moment, and then asked to render again as JSON-LD for activity pub, things go a bit off the rail.
Sadly that means I had to turn this feature off with my host, as they currently don’t allow for individual customization at the moment. But happily that I could, and this site in all it’s ActivityPub glory, can continue.
Back to AP and Statamic
A while back I mentioned about getting AP working for Statamic, and now that my hosting move is complete, back to this pet project. Keep you posted in my next weeknotes.
