A 55 year olds’ perspective on learning and trying to get by.

This is my journal on the internet.

I started writing blogs decades ago, but they haven’t survived the passage of time, mainly because I didn’t keep them up for very long.

This one will be different. I will write, once a week, and it will be a mixed bag of looking back on my life so far, coping with (very minor, it must be said) ADHD, trying to learn to code in the land of LLMs, and also perhaps consider the steps I take towards career independence.

The latter will be a very long journey.

Spelling errors, grammatical errors, and anything else you find that is wrong is all me. No LLMs were involved in the production of content (though I did use the excellent t3.chat to help me tweak the theme a little to my liking).

Fair warning - I swear infrequently in these posts. Sometimes more often. I’m all about being authentic, after all.

I stay away from most social media, so there is not really a way to contact me. If I change my mind, I’ll add something here. For the moment, just read!

I frequently experiment with different hosting for this thing - this is the second iteration in the first month of its’ life. Originally, I went with Ghost - which is a great platform - but for the low effort, low volume, simplest blog, it’s still overkill.

Now this is all static, generated by Hugo, and hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Simple, fast, and just markdown content - which I write in all the time anyway.

Jan Raasch is responsible for this wonderfully simple Bear Blog on Hugo theme.