An update of the various things happening in my life
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Hey all, this is my first post on my blog, and it's been a journey to get it to the point where I can actually post.
The site you are one is hosted at tilde.club, a nice shared Unix environment as in the old days. The peope there are doing awesome work, and if you find it interesting, please consider donating to them at donate.tilde.club.
Let's get into it.
The site is developed using 11ty, which is an awesome static site generator. I have used Hugo, but it is quite limiting in the options it has available.
The main reason for going with 11ty is because I wanted an excuse to finally learn JavaScript, and it provides a native way to build the site so that I can host it on multiple protocols.
From a single 11ty repository, I can build for HTML, Gopher and Gemini. You can reach them at the following URL's:
Have a look at the repository, inside the .eleventy.js file to see how it's configured to generate the files at the correct location.
The output directory, dist, is deployed to tilde.club via the SourceHut
build services, hosted at builds.sr.ht. This makes the
process seamless, having the content available across 3 protocols instantly.
In my day-to-day, I am a shop floor foreman, programming CNC machines, making drawings, etc. The current job I am at, is for all intents and purposes, paying my bills but is not my long term goal.
At the moment, I am not getting a lot of fulfillment out of this, so I am in the process of transitioning to being self-employed. See the next section for the details on that.
My new-born is currently 2 months old, and he is quite busy for his age. I am so glad he is in my life, and he is a blessing from God. With this, I can also say I have an awesome wife, who looks after our child during this time when I am busy building on myself.
As stated above, I am in the process of getting my website business off the ground. The name of the company is graphsling, and it provides brand services to various areas, such as web site building, brand design, graphical and colateral design, plus general analytics and search engine configuration.
So far it has been quite busy, and projects over there will keep me so until end of September.
You can see the site here, which list the services, projects and contact details if you wish to use our services for a project of yours.
I have written a letter to the Lord, as King Hezekiah has done when the enemies were about to invade his land. The verse, 2 Kings 19:14 (KJV) is as follow:
14: Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went
up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord.
15: And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned
between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You
have made heaven and earth.
16: Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to the words
Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.
In my letter, there is no enemy wishing to break down my walls and take my belongings, but I still believe it's important to write things down and take it to God. I keep it on me as a reminder what I am working towards, and to remind myself to pray about it.
Further than that, I finally got my car through to my mechanic to fix it. It has been quite a long time where it was standing while I was saving up funds to get it fixed. I believe I will have it back in the next 2-3 weeks. This will help as I can finally start going out to get quite time away from home.
And that's it for now. May God bless you and keep you!