Blog: January 2024

This Week Jan 15-20, 2024

2024-01-20 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Picture of me dressed up
Went to feed some Highland Cattle

Events I attended:

Learning

  • AI Course - Google
  • Cyber Security - Google
  • Learning New Features of GAM (Google Account Manager) to become a powerful Google Workspace Admin

Socializing

  • Showing my colleague's brother around Sacramento. We're hoping to
  • Had lunch with a colleague.
  • Reconnected with a childhood friend.

Exercise

  • Went on 3 runs this week. I started running in kilometers instead of miles.
  • Did plenty of cardio exercises beyond running.
  • Went on a hike in near Alta, CA
  • Visited a Pine Tree Fram (Christmas Farm)

Meals/Food

  • I ate a sandwich from Panera - Tuna (Work provided)
  • I ate a burger.
  • I had Chicken Tenders.
  • I made homemade flautas.
  • Ate a delicious vegan chocolate cookie from Sacramento Natural Food Co-op.

Me Time

Tech Stuff

  • I fixed the Docker Images to my website. Everything is 100% running via docker now.
  • Benji and Angelo helped me out reduce the number of bots and crawlers hitting my website. I've been checking my logs and it is now it is very minimal but I'm still tweaking as I go. Thanks dudes!
  • gRegor pointed out to me that my microformats on my blog were not set correctly. Luckily, we got it figured out ! Thanks gRegor!

Music I listened To

Longboarding Sessions - Original Skateboards

2024-01-20 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Longboarding Sessions 🛹

I've always been a fan of Original Skateboards. As a kid, I remember how badly I wanted a longboard especially from Original. I would also watch these videos produced by them as well and would drool how awesome these guys were and wished one day I could do this. The closest I've come to this was going on trips with friends and taking our boards with us. Another example is taking my short cruising board with me to Europe. I didn't record me on a board much.

There are various sessions on their Youtube channel.

These are my favorite sessions. The music on these videos definitely influenced my music tastes.

Puerto Rico Sessions 🛹

Hawaii Sessions 🛹

Central Mass Sessions 🛹

Happy Ripping! 🛹

Photo of longboarder ripping.

This Week Jan 6-14, 2024

2024-01-14 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Picture of me dressed up
Went to the work holiday party in traditional attire.

Events I attended:

Learning

  • AI Course - Google
  • Cyber Security - Google
  • Learning New Features of GAM (Google Account Manager) to become a powerful Google Workspace Admin

Exercise

  • Went on a walk with a friend
  • Went on two runs
  • Did some stretching

Meals

Tech Stuff

  • I moved most of my self-hosted services on to a new Digital Ocean Droplet. The only issue is moving my site.
    • The dockerfile is having issues pulling the right extensions for my site. Problem to be resolved this week.
  • I changed my RSS Reader from FreshRSS to miniflux

Music I listened To

Shrinkflation

2024-01-12 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Shrinkflation and all the variations of it are out of control. I really enjoy watching CBC's programming reporting on different matters that also affect us here in the US.

Liked: Finish Those Blog Drafts!

2024-01-10 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Liked: Finish Those Blog Drafts! by Kelson Vibber image of keyboard

I have a bad habit of starting blog posts, getting 90% done, and then never finishing them. I’m trying to combat that by taking some advice I read* a while back:

Instead of saving a draft when you’re mostly done but not satisfied with the writing, schedule the post for a few days from now. If you really think of a way to make it better, you have time. If not, it was good enough and you actually got the piece out. I'm going to spend this weekend going through my drafts and just finish a bunch of them.

Many of us feel this way. It's even harder when it's been a while since I've touch some drafts. Some things seem out of context or the moment has passed.

This reminds me I need to setup the auto publish plugin for my website.