Weeknotes 1

It’s becoming more important for me to have this website to document my life: things I’m doing, things I’m thinking about, things I’m interested in, I’m appreciating looking back more and it’s been nice to have a spot on the internet that I can mostly control and curate that content.

Any coding has felt very work-centric lately and I’m finally feeling more in the mood to dabble with non-work projects like this website. The idea of tweaking things here and there doesn’t burn me out anymore. It used to. In the past, I felt like my website needed to be about my career as a developer.

Now, I want it to be about me as a person. Sure, I can still share developer-related things, but I also want to share more about my life outside of work so that I can look back on it later and remember how life was going at that time I decided to post. I don’t know how often I’ll post, but I want to try to do it more often - I’ve especially enjoyed looking back at my old photos from last year. My camera roll and Apple Photos is a huge photo dump, but here it’s all curated to whatever I felt like was interesting enough to share. I don’t have to think about how many likes I’m going to get because there’s no like button. I like that.

I came across a bunch of old photos from ten years ago. I was more active with photography and videography during this time. These are some of my favorites that I enjoyed looking at most. Back then I shot with a Canon 5D Mark II and a 50mm f/1.8 lens. I was - well, actually - I’m still learning how to use my camera, but I was having fun with it and still am! The Canon 5D was my first and only full-frame camera. I still have it, and I plan to keep it around since it still takes great photos.