Notes

From Wikipedia’s personalized Year in Review for me:

You spent 22,629 minutes reading 12,427 articles in 2025. We estimate that puts you in the top 5% of Wikipedia readers globally. The average person reads 335 articles a year.

Yeah, I’m a fan. But my plan for next year is more emphasis on books and my to-be-read stack (actually six, which I’ll write about some other time, maybe).

The two-week heat wave brought extreme fire risk to Galicia and now Ourense province is on fire. 10% of it, 727 square kilometers, has already burned. The fires of Chandrexa and Maceda merged and is now the biggest fire ever on record. Neighbors are organizing volunteer groups via WhatsApp and some villages are left alone to battle the flames, without any firefighters. Many are feeling useless given the situation.

While I’ve really enjoyed the human, social aspect of my job, talking with podcasters all day, the web development itch returned a few weeks ago. I eventually want to learn more HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (and TypeScript) to migrate this blog over to something like Lume, but I think it’s still beneficial for me to understand WordPress in a more technical way.

This site’s theme is pretty old, but I love the typography and simplicity. I’ve been tinkering with a child theme and re-added the Aside post type and styled it a bit differently than normal posts. Can you tell I like the notecard and highlighter vibe?

I want to try some mini-projects with Seriously Simple Podcasting or Advanced (or Secure?) Custom Fields too.

Grant me surrender to embrace what You have woven,
The strength to stir the waters where my hands may flow,
And the vision to see through the veils of what is mine to sow.

Thank you, Elon, for all the chaos in your Twitter acquisition; I deactivated my (X?) account a few weeks ago after not being on there since December-ish. I don’t care about anything else you’ve done but you finally got me off that site.

I’d also like to thank myself for not having that much interest in replacing it with another thing like it.

Less input from complete strangers gives me more space and less noise in my head to just be.