Week 1, 2024: A Fresh Start
Hello internet friends,
happy New Year and welcome to the first weeknotes post of the new year and as you can probably see I am still very motivated. First a bit of meta but then we'll try to have a bit fun together.
A few weeks back Mailchimp announced that they would shutdown Tinyletter, the tool I used for my old newsletter.
This gave me the very smart idea to use the old format, including speaking directly to you, dear readers, for these posts and also reactivate the old mailing list. So if you got my emails back then, you'll get them now - I did warn you, though.
Of course you're still more than welcome to unsubscribe if it gets too annoying - after all, newsletters are not the hot thing anymore. There are options to follow along via RSS or the fediverse. (And if you don't know what these things are: oh well. Maybe email is the right medium for you. Or are there any other ways you want me to remind you of new posts? Let me know.)
So - the first week of the year, what do I have to report? Gloriously little. One day I spent trying to write my own newsletter software (because of course I did) until Martin rightfully told me that I should just get over my first nerd instinct and use Buttondown like all the other cool kids. So that's what I am doing now.
Otherwise I was mostly using up the remaining days off from 2023 to decompress. December - as great it was in many and often surprising ways - was quite a bit draining and just being a sloth for a few days helped a lot. I watched a few movies, caught up on my shows and now I'm weirdly motivated to get into this year. I'm even looking forward to the corporate All-Hands Kick-Off 2024 next week and if that's not weird, I don't know what is.
I've been known to complain about the lack of hardware keyboard on modern smartphones, so Clicks is exactly up my alley. I'll need to look around how to get one for my phone.
I really enjoyed this article on all the work the infrastructure nerds did before the turn of the millennium and how they're mostly forgotten about because their hard work payed off and most things just kept on going.
That's it for this first week - I hope you stick around. Have a good week and see you next Sunday!
Toodles