One of my 2025 resolutions is doing things that don’t scale and doing them faster without overthinking. The idea is to focus on doing more while

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2025-01-09 07:30:02

One of my 2025 resolutions is doing things that don’t scale and doing them faster without overthinking. The idea is to focus on doing more while worrying less about scalability and sustainability in the things I do outside of work. With that in mind, I’ve been thinking for a while about tracking some of my out-of-band activities on this blog. The goal is to:

This isn’t about getting more eyeballs on what I publish. It’s about tracking what I do so I can look back at the end of the year and enjoy a nice little lull of accomplishment. Plus, having a place to post stuff regularly nudges me to read more, explore more, and do more of the things I actually want to do.

Social media is usually where people do this, but digging up old posts and reviewing them later is a pain. Plus, platforms like Twitter tank your posts’ visibility if they have links to other sites. A simple link blog solves all that for me.

Having a dynamic site with a backend would make setting up a link blog trivial. But I’m too lazy to maintain a fancy dynamic site, even though this blog gets an okay-ish amount of traffic. This blog is just a static artifact1 generated by Hugo with a minimalistic theme and some custom CSS flair. Adding a link blog without a backend is tricky when I want to avoid dealing with a dedicated backend.