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One of the things I've yet to really use for my day-to-day development are tools like GitHub Copilot. I've considered trying them from time to time, but the negatives I feel about them always outweigh any desire to try them. At the same time, there's still that nagging feeling I have that maybe I'm missing out or would get left behind if I ignore them.

One of my goals for 2025 was to write 100 blog posts. I'm currently at 50, so halfway there, but we're now almost 60% of the way through the year, so I'm a little behind. I think I'm going to try to schedule some posts from my backlog of half-written posts and ideas.

Other than the intense heat, July wasn't a bad month.

Last night, the Bombers, the hockey team I captain played their final game of the season. It was an 8-3 win with solid play from everyone. Now I have a little over a month of limited hockey to rest and recharge.

Over the last couple months, I've seen my weight and progress tick back up. I was making decent progress earlier in the year, but I seem to have hit a wall and backslid a bit. It's not the end of the world, but I think I want to experiment some over the next month or so to see if I can't turn things around for the better.

I recently stumbled upon a thread on Reddit about dog ownership and its downsides. I have some thoughts to share.

When I first built my media repository API in Node.js, I ran into callback hell when running queries or commands against the database.

Almost five years ago, during the pandemic, I built myself a home gym to allow me to continue my strength training journey since COVID kept me away from the commercial gyms. I was slightly worried about it being too convenient, but now I can't imagine lifting anywhere else.

Recently I finally learned about the <template /> element in HTML. I'm not sure how long it's been there, but it came at the right time for me and I figured I'd share a quick demo about how I've been using it in the hopes that maybe it'll help you or someone else.

Whelp, the first half of the year has come and gone. The country is heading to authoritarianism, but I'm still kicking.

Since Trump was elected back in November, I've had a hard time articulating my feelings with regards to the people in my life who I know voted for him. I recently came across this post and I thought John Pavlovitz did a good job putting into words what I've struggled to.

I decided to move my week notes into their own collection in my 11ty setup. Because of that, there might be some flukiness with my RSS feeds. Sorry about that!