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2025, New Year, New Plans

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It’s been a while. Not something I’m particularly happy about, but life doesn’t always go as planned. Our minds also have an amazing ability to complicate our lives, both intentionally and unintentionally. Over the past couple years, I’ve been working on a lot of self-discovery and self-reflections to better understand myself.

With some much needed therapy, I’ve come to better understand how my mind works. Therapy has helped explain why I keep producing all these plans about what I want to do. I start them all but never finish them. Confirmed it isn’t ADHD, but I’ve had complications in my life that have effected my executive functions. TLDR, I love to start new things and overwhelm myself to the point I’m not capable of focusing on anything. Now that I’m working on myself, it’s time to start rethinking my approaches to my own personal development.

So yeah, I have a lot of projects I’d love to work on. I need to start limiting myself and focus on fewer projects/tasks at a time. Seems obvious, but that’s now how my brain wanted to work all this time. With that, I’m going to focus on one professional and one personal goal.

My current professional goal, finally get an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certificate. Going to focus on fine tuning my skills to be an AWS Solutions Architect.

My current personal goal, learn Godot and finally start making some video games as a hobby.

Additionally, I will document hurdles I come across while working on these tasks. For example, I will document learning how to setup SSH with GitHub. There is no end of online guides, and I always find myself needing to reference several guides. They all seem to miss something important. Dual intention with this, record the steps for my future reference and share them for other in case it helps. This will be a continuing goal, so it will be a long term goal.

With that, time to get started!

CSS Cleanup Complete!

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Task accomplished. While still trying to get myself into a better better habit of working on my personal projects, I have completed the first task of my May sprint. I finally removed the custom CSS styles I added within WordPress and updated the actual stylesheet on the server.

Lessons learned, Chromium based browsers like to cache stylesheets apparently. Both Chrome and the Chromium based Edge browser refused to see my CSS changes until I cleared the temp files. However, the current Edge browser was much more forgiving, just needed to reload the page. Granted, there might have been another way to address this, but I’m still learning.

Along with that, the Developer tools are a web designers best friend. Always knew they existed, but never really had a need to use them. While trying to update a 3000+ line stylesheet that I didn’t write, it makes a world of difference being able to highlight an element on the page, see what styles control it, and even see what line that code starts at in the actual file. Honestly, it was way easier to mess with the WordPress CSS code just editing the actual stylesheet vs trying to override it via the WordPress interface.

Next two tasks I want to complete this sprint, setup a failover page if my site goes down and setup a backup plan in the case my site goes completely belly up. Outside of working on my web development project, I’m planning on starting on a game development project. Setup Unity and downloaded some tutorials. Just need to follow them and start making something.