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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.

Well this month started out great with a nice long weekend in Cape May, but then we had to go and elect a fascist to the highest office and it took a quick nosedive from there.

So here's a silly question, in the movie Star Trek: Generations, the Enterprise D crashes onto the planet Veridian III. The movie mentions that its neighboring planet, Veridian IV had a pre-warp civilization. It made me wonder something.

I’ve been using text-wrap: balance by default on my headings for a little while now. I find that things look nicer and you deal less with hanging words. But thanks to a blog post by Terence Eden, I’ve discovered you can use it on other content as well.

October was a busy month for us. It really seemed like we had something going on just about every weekend.

I stumbled across this excellent guide by Juan Diego Rodríguez for using the new CSS anchor positioning syntax.

Two weeks ago, Jeff Bezos personally stepped in and stopped the Washington Post Editorial Board from endorsing Kamala Harris. That raised some issues for me, and apparently over 200,000 subscribers. I can pretty easily guess why Bezos did it, but I’m not sure how much thought he really put into it.