GitLab emailed me about a failed Let’s Encrypt renewal. Had to press the Retry button to encourage GitLab’s LE stack to do its thing. This has happened a couple times but not a big deal. It reminded me to check up on my winny.tech GitLab namespace and see what my last post was all back on October 12, 2025. 8½ months ago.
I’ve been focused on keeping the proverbial boat afloat. Money, where to sleep, health. Needless to say, I’ve had less focus online and on my blog.
This blog doesn’t have a raison d’être anymore. Competence for tech employment was one reason. One non-technical manager liked my blog. It’s existed for over seven years now. In my experiment of n=1 samples, I can confirm that a blog isn’t an economically practical tool in landing stable employment.
I’ve experimented with this blog for rants, how-tos, and announcements. These don’t seem load-bearing as there are other places to shout at clouds, give directions. Not sure what there is to announce anymore too.
Undecided on what next for the blog. And for my website, for that matter.
PS I started writing this hours ago. Half, if not two-thirds of that time was spent trying to get my blog to build so I can preview it. Going to abandon Tailwinds and node.js on further hugo based projects. It’s not worth time, as demonstrated tonight with the Node permission model butting heads with postcss.