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+title: New Look, Maybe more updates?
+date: 2024-10-19T05:00:00.000Z
+tags: [dev, distractions, website]
+categories: [Dev]
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+
+With Twitter's sudden collapse, it was time to once again refresh this site.
+
+I have been pretty busy since 2022. So many distractions!
+
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+So, first, a new look! This one being a version of the [Coder theme](https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/hugo-coder/).
+There are things I like, but others I don't. I do sort of miss some of the extra
+post grouping, headers, footers etc. We'll see if those stay important to me.
+
+I had used [smol](https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/smol/) due to how minimal it
+was, but ultimately I've decided it was too much so. I had always intended to
+make a design project of this site and show off my own personal style.
+
+But time and too many projects makes fools of us all.
+
+Since last time, hugo's recommended Github pages's hosting has moved to a Github
+Actions based build. That's great! It's much better than the deploy script that
+didn't survive needing to reconstruct my local development repos.
+
+Burning Man 2022 came and went. It was fun! I tried new things that will never
+get written about,  but ultimately still feel a bit burned out by the heat and
+dust. So I didn't attend 2023 or 2024.
+
+Maybe I'll go next year.
+
+Two further JoCoCruises have happened since my last post. I shutternauted for
+both. I learned much about photography, and what I like about it. I haven't
+become much faster at processing photos though. When I return to the cruise, I
+probably won't volunteer for that again, until I figure out a workflow for that.
+
+I did a big trip to see the 2024 Solar Eclipse. That was great! Got to see fancy
+telescopes in New Mexico and other neat sites. And of course, my second Eclipse!
+I should write about that trip, but given my track record, I may not.
+
+I might use Elipses to schedule future travel. I may not do Spain/Iceland in
+2026, but I've already begun arrangements for Egypt in 2027.
+
+I had my heart broken thought assumptions and missed opportunities.
+
+I gave a few more tech talks, mostly about Apache Beam, and the Go SDK.
+In particular I've been working largely on a local Beam Runner in Go, 
+which we've called Prism. From my experience on my eclipse trip, I can
+say with authority that prism are how you really play with and manipulate
+light.
+
+I have an experiment I hope to launch soon, that I'll write about here.
+Learning and trying to express those lessons out in the open is powerful.
+I'd like to share, and get better at that.
+
+If people find either useful, that would be great.