Who is Nick?

Asking all my life.

Weeknotes

  • Weeknotes 2025-06-27

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    I’ve been trying to flex the brain a bit more since my last weeknotes.

    Orality and Ong

    I’ve continued my journey comparing today’s world with Ong’s characteristics of an oral culture:

    It’s coming along. I’m enjoying some of the interesting things I’m connecting with. Still not sure how to tie a bow on all of this. However, That’s the reason for the exercise, to explore.

    ActivityPub

    I’ve also continued my exploration of what could be an ActivtyPub platform for me to tinker on all AP idea’s. I’ve taken months to hunt and try a bunch of possibilities out. They are all are really good in their own way, but to me, feel like I’m strong arming what I want it to do. So… I’ve started and stopped and started and stopped, and now I’m started again to do the silly thing, and build something for me and my own brain.

    • Using PHP – because everyone has a server for PHP. Plus it’s the simplest for my hosting and my budget, which should be no more than I’m already spending on hosting.
    • Using Slim PHP – because I want to keep this light. Laravel and Symphony are great, but overkill at the moment. If this becomes “a thing”, then a rebuild would be in the cards, but that’s a 2.0 or 3.0 problem.
    • ActivityPub first – this is where I’ve found my mental problems. Many implementations feel like you’re always fighting some dissonance with a core foundation. It’s an extension, a plugin, a layer it on top of.. all of which work… but… not quite what I’m looking for.
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  • Weeknotes 2025-06-06

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    • Up and down and up and down
    • a flip; a pissed away day
    • twiddle the thumbs
    • clean the house and never succeed
    • stare at a squirrel climbing a tree
    • reconsider mostly everything
    • journal, blog, post
    • feel great about the time I have
    • sad about my indecision and paralysis
    • spend too much time on things
      • what else am I doing?
    • hunt for something to do

    That’s been my week.

  • Weeknotes 2025-05-26

    AKA: More like bi-monthly.. now with the option of daily

    I’ve been temporarily laid off. You could call it a furlough ( though no one ever used that term ).

    A string of bad luck in the world of startups. They’ll call me back if they can. We just don’t know when.

    Oh whoa is me… boo hoo boo hoo.

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    My cheese was moved

    If anyone knows me, I’m the world of “who moved my cheese“, I’m not the one who’s sitting back. I lean forward and move.

    It’s time to ( in no particular order ):

    • clean the house ( seriously… I’m going into housekeeper dad mode )
    • wallow for a teensy moment while watching some Sci-fi
    • ponder the mysteries of universe and reconsider the place I want to be in it
    • Write ( aka this blog )
    • Give’er 🇨🇦

    Any plans?

    Not yet. After all it’s only day 1. I will trust my golden horseshoe and whim.

    • What does that look like right now 🤷
    • What does that look like next week 🤷
    • What does that look like next month 🤷
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  • Weeknotes 2025-03-22

    Correction: Monthnotes 2025-03-22.

    All that energy last month to mix it up, took me down. I was doing ok but then snap – damn you ADHD!

    I, of course haven’t done nothing, just different things:

    • Convert a newer/older laptop to Ubuntu
    • Remembered Drupal; saw they were trying to make a shift to simplify ( no doubt from all the “wordpress hi jinks” ) and started to remember how powerful it was when I replaced my college radio station’s site with it… that was a fun couple years.
    • Lot’s of work, and internal work weeknotes, with the hopes that someone, oh someone, will go on the ride with me. But, it’s just me sitting alone in the park.
    • Oh ya, and fighting f*!#’n mice! The scourge of Langley!

    It’s insanity! My house is a mix of towels under door jams, everything is in a box. At first you’re like, wow it’s organized, and then you’re like, which box was that in, and then your like, F!*#’n boxes!

    I’m not really much of an handy man, so the idea of figuring out what to do, is kind of super monumental at the moment.

    Then you think you’ve done enough, and then after the kids go to bed 4 of them come out of nowhere and run around like crazy teens, while your wife looses her mind, and the rest of the night, your trying to figure out not only how to get these guys out, but also do it in a way that your partner, who is now curled up in a ball mumbling “make them go away”, doesn’t fully break.

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    So, monthnotes it may have to be while all the energy I have left is trying to deal with that.

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  • Weeknotes 2025-02-22

    Now with Shit Goggles!

    I’m usually a happy-go-lucky look-on-the-bright-side-of-life kinda guy, but seems like not been so much.

    My wife had to have a hard talk with me.

    And now, boy oh boy do I hear it. The back handed comments, the “sure this is good, but….” amendments to every sentence.

    So, what do I do? These things feel a little glued on right now. So I’m going to focus on the small things. The things I can change. I’m going to break a pattern or two, ever so slightly.

    Breaking patterns, even the smallest pattern, by the fewest of moments, means you can change the big things.

    It’s a twist on the classic making your bed speech.

    Hold off on picking up your phone for 20seconds once in the morning, then tomorrow you can wait 22; then 30; then a minute; then 5; then 15; then 30; then an hour; then longer.

    Go to bed 1 minute earlier.

    Get up 10 minutes earlier

    Sit on the opposite side of the couch.

    Instead of doing X – try doing Y, just once a day.

    And when my patterns can change, hopefully the shit can crack a little, and a little more until it rolls away, and I can get to that happy-go-lucky look-on-the-bright-side-of-life kinda guy.

    Oh ya – and I was inspired by Derek Sivers’s now page so, I have one too now.