Weeknotes 25:04

January 27, 2025

Week of January 19–25

Some random thoughts about the week

Tribute to my mom

I had the idea to write a tribute post to my mom. Her birthday was on Friday and she passed away two years ago, 13 days short of her birthday. I have been thinking about her quite a bit this month as all of her major life milestones occur in January. Her and my dad’s anniversary is also this month.

I thought of some different memories that really capture the essence of my relationship with her. Most of them were things I thought of at night as I drove over to pick up my daughter from musical practice at her community college. But I didn’t make the time to write up my thoughts before her birthday or over the weekend. I would like to make time to do that in the next few weeks.

Memory keeper

One of the few things I like about Facebook is the daily memories page. I enjoy seeing what happened on the day in my past and enjoy reliving memories with my family or significant and non-significant moments in my journey as a Web developer. For several years, I have wanted to build my own memory keeper to collect my Twitter archive, Facebook posts, Instagram, and other non-social media images or memories.

I have yet to find solutions I was happy with that could automate the process and import my archives from Facebook and Twitter into my WordPress site or make a separate WordPress install/database. Of course I have also been pondering moving away from WordPress due to all the drama and unhappiness about how that is being run. I am tempted to just try to enter things manually. That would also allow me to curate content as I don’t think I need every tweet or every post from Facebook to meet my needs.

I have wanted a memory keeper solution ever since Memolane went defunct. I loved that service and would have gladly paid for it. I loved that it sent emails. At one point, it sent emails with a memory quiz. That was a lot of fun and elevated the memory experience.

Memolane captured memories from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other social media.

I started taking screenshots this last week of my Facebook memories each day so that I could start manually adding things. Not sure if this will get off the ground this time or not but the idea has been bugging me recently.

Personal development

  • I completed Module 2 (Working with State) in The Joy of React course
  • I worked through Ahmad Shadeed’s interactive article, Balancing Text In CSS. I love his interactive articles and always learn something new even if it is a subject I am more familiar with.

Articles I read

Books I am reading

What I watched

Walking

It has been significantly colder in Chattanooga this week so I only got out a couple of times and did shorter walks than I would have liked.

  • Tuesday – 2.79 miles in 48 minutes
  • Thursday – 2.03 miles in 36 minutes

What I played

  • MLB The Show 23 (Rays) – I played 3 games this week. I am currently playing against the Guardians in the ALCS. I won games 2 and 3 and lost game 4 so the series is even at 2 games a piece.
  • NBA 2K25 – I won my first game playing at the semi-pro level playing with the NBA Today. I started a season with the Nuggets. I got smoked in the first game but later discovered the difficulty mode was set to professional. I adjusted the difficulty back to semi-pro and went 3-2 for the week.

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