May 27th, 2025
Last updated: 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
Oh my, oh my, am I glad to be back tweaking this site! I chose to put this site aside to focus on my studies and I'm proud to inform that after doing an internship, this enby will be the owner of a Bachelor degree! In Environmental Science! Woohoo! Haha.
I've been back home for a almost three weeks and I'm getting my groove back. I returned from my trip to the capital a couple of days ago and I'm enjoying my birthday updating this site and doing crafts.
I have been reading about git flows with the intention of applying some to my workflow. As a self-taught front-end web developer working solo, I want to take my expertise with git to the next level. With workflows, I'll be handling branches, making pull requests and overall getting a deeper understanding of this tool. Here the original post from Vincent Driessen, here's another post based on it, and here's a video on Git Flow and GitHub Flow.
At the moment, I find that GitHub Flow works better for solo projects such a personal websites because its a faster workflow than Git Flow which relies on more branches and assumes a longer development period. One of the things that I want to polish from my current workflow is the process from the website's content which is currently under the `markdown` branch to the HTML/CSS syntax. I don't mind copy and pasting but I have had trouble remembering what I need to copy. I want to introduce more discipline into my workflow going directly from MD draft to HTML/CSS syntax and not get distracted from writing/editing other things.
Overall, I'm doing pretty well. I have applied to an internship and I'm waiting for an answer. If that doesn't work out, I have a few ideas. I'm planning on finishing a little project called LinkFree which is a self-coded version of LinkTree. I'm not sure if there's an official name for one page websites with links to different accounts of an individual/entity but that's what it is. I just need to add the rest of the icons, fix the link to my CV, and add the credits section. The link to the portfolio is a placeholder till I get to that project.
On a random final note, I got into a customizing kick and set up Rainmeter and TranslucentTB, and designed my own aesthetic desktop background for my laptop. It's the first time I have done something like this to my devices and I'm happy with the result. I always had trouble deciding on a desktop background so a productivity-focused one was just what I needed, haha. It got the time and date in the center, a monthly calendar, a weather widget, and several drawers for most used app, projects, and a priority list similar to what's at the top of the page. This totally wasn't to scratch the web dev itch while procrastinating on homework, not at all.
Welp, here's to more updates to come! Cheers!