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I listed the apps I use 2 years ago. I figured I'd update it with my current setup as a few things have changed.

My job had me build a customize file upload control for the project I’m working on. I thought I had it working. It worked on Chrome. It worked on Firefox. It worked on Android. Then it was tested on an iPhone.

I read more books in 2024 than I have any year prior. I enjoyed most of them.

I’ve known for a while that I sometimes spend too much time on social media. I also know with the latest election and upcoming administration, I have a tendency to doom scroll a little too much. In an attempt to regain focus and a little bit of self-care, I’m going to take a step back from all social media.

I played more games in 2024 than I had in years prior. It's part of the reason I want to tackle more of my backlog this year.

Most of the TV I watched this year was with my wife, though I managed to watch a few of the ones on my list as well.

Now that 2025 is here, I thought I’d share my goals and aspirations for me and what I hope to accomplish this year. Like previous years, I’m aspiring to continue to do what makes me happy and improve myself.

2024 was quite a year. It had some good, it had some bad, and I can’t believe it’s coming to a close. I had to say goodbye to my cat Cookie, I turned 40, I ran a lot, and I proceeded to watch in horror as American voters decided to turn towards authoritarianism and a dumpster fire. But I think I’m going to try to focus on the positives.

My wife and I have a system where we often have movie nights and take turns picking the movie. We continued it this year. We didn't quite hit the count we did last year, but we still tallied 26 this past year.

December came and went. The holidays are over and 2025 is upon us.

I've been slowly building out components for my site and have been slowly moving more and more to WebC rather than shortcodes. One of the things that I was having trouble figuring out how to do was handle if statements with WebC. I build shortcodes with JavaScript, so if statements are second nature to me. I needed to do a little digging with WebC.

While it is almost always better to fix a failing test, there are occasionally times when you know the code is working, but you need time to correct the test. Thankfully xUnit provides a pretty simple way to tell it to skip a specific test.